Geography Chapter 16 Section 1

Impressionism

A style of painting

Modernize the economy and encourage more balanced growth

After World War II, what did the government need to do?

France experienced great prosperity and France leads in the export of goods

As a result of the trade agreement what did France experience? What is a result today?

One language would bring the nation together

As the French kings expanded their control, what did they decide one language would do?

France consists of low, flat hills, and wide plains.

Describe the last side of France

Prosper

Did Gaul prosper or fail under Roman control?

Claude Monet and Pierre Augustus Renoir

Name two famous French painters

Jean Starte and Rene Descartes

Name two famous French philosophers

National pride

The French language is a symbol of what?

Older peaks and newer peaks

The Massif Central is a mixture of what two types of peaks?

Warmer; drier

The air is __________ and the soil is ________ in the southwest.

Important industrial center

The city of Lille in North Paris is another what?

Economic, cultural, and political

The city of Paris is the capital of what three things in France?

Dialect

Variations of a language that are unique to a region are called what?

The Rhine River Valley

What Valley lives in East France?

A rugged barrier of mountains that provide spectacular scenery

What are the Alps?

The Riviera

What attracts millions of tourist to France each year?

The border between France and Germany

What border does the Rhine River form?

Water

What borders three sides of France?

Mountains

What borders two sides of France?

Lorraine

What city has France's largest deposits of coal?

The teaching of the arts and revival of learning

What did Charlemagne encourage?

Missionaries to northern Europe

What did Charlemagne send out?

Charlemagne set up an efficient government

What did Charlemagne set up?

The engineers dug a highway tunnel through Mount Blanc connecting Italy and France

What did engineers do in 1965?

Movement between France and Italy

What did the Alps slow?

A trade agreement

What did the government won't to form after World War II?

France's chief center of commercial industry

What do Paris and its surrounding area form?

They call their country the hexagon because their country is kind of six sided.

What do the French sometimes call their country? Why?

Francis varied market economy

What do the different regions in France contribute to?

Intellectual and artistic achievements

What else do the French take pride in?

Semi-presidential

What government does France have today?

It fell

What happened to the holy Roman empire after Charlemagne's death?

The monarchy grew strong under Capet

What happened to the monarchy under Capet?

They are turned into finished products

What happens to raw materials shipped to France?

The Rhine River

What is Europe's busiest waterway

Grapes

What is grown in the south west of France?

Other languages and dialects

What is spoken in various parts of France?

The Northern European Plain

What is the Paris basin a part of?

Azure coast which means Blue Water

What is the Riviera's nickname?

Marseille

What is the busiest seaport in France and the second most active in Western Europe?

The Paris Basin?

What is the large functional region drained by the Seine called?

Industry because the soil is poor except the soil for grapes

What is the main economic activity in France and why?

Mount Blanc is 15,771 feet tall

What is the tallest peak in the Alps? How tall is it?

Paris

What lies in the center of the Paris basin?

Paris basin

What lies in the interior of northern France?

Steel mills, textiles, factories, and chemical plants

What provided jobs in Lille?

Cannes, Nice, and Saint Tropez

What three cities do most people visit in the Riviera?

Wine, electronic goods, chemicals

What three things does the Riviera export?

The Massif Central is west of the Rhone River; The Alps are east of the Rhone River

What two mountain regions are in southern France?

Semi-presidential

What type of government is run by a president and a prime minister?

Republic of People; a Constitutional Monarchy; and Empires

What types of government has France had since the fall of the monarchy?

The holy Roman empire covered much of western Europe

What was Charlemagne's empire known as? What did it cover?

France was known as Gaul

What was France known as when the Romans first conquered it in the first century BC?

The monarchy ended in 1789 and the French revolution overturned it

When did the monarchy under Capet end? What overturned it?

It is located nestled between Alps and the Mediterranean sea in south eastern France

Where is the Riviera located?

French was spoken only in and around Paris

Where was the language that is now French spoken before the 1500s?

The power was with the Nobles

Where was the power by the 10th century?

The Frank's conquered the region and they came from Germany

Who conquered the Gaul region as the Roman empire declined? Where did they come from?

Hugh Capet ruled Paris and was chosen in 987 AD

Who did the nobles choose as their new king? What did rule? In what year was he chosen?

Charlemagne became king of the Franks in 768 A.D.

Who is one of the most famous conquerors? When did he become king of the Franks?

National identity; cultural; economic

Even though France has a strong --------, -------, and ------ regions exist in the nation.

They adopted language and Christian religion

How were the Gauls influenced by Roman culture?