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Europe
Europe , 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). It is actually a vast peninsula of the great Eurasian land mass. By convention, it is separated from Asia by the Urals and the Ural River in the east; by the Caspian Sea and ...
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Eurasia
Eurasia , land mass comprising the continents of Europe and Asia , in which Europe is geographically a western peninsula of Asia, rather than a separate continent.
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apprenticeship
apprenticeship system of learning a craft or trade from one who is engaged in it and of paying for the instruction by a given number of years of work. The practice was known in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in modern Europe and to some extent in the United States. Typically, ...
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commercial law
commercial law the laws that govern business transactions, except those relating to the maritime transportation of goods (see maritime law ). Commercial law developed as a distinct body of jurisprudence with the beginning of large-scale trade.
Development of Commercial Law
Formal documen...
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dowry
dowry , the property that a woman brings to her husband at the time of the marriage. The dowry apparently originated in the giving of a marriage gift by the family of the bridegroom to the bride and the bestowal of money upon the bride by her parents. It has been a well-established institution among...
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drift
drift deposit of mixed clay, gravel, sand, and boulders transported and laid down by glaciers. Stratified, or glaciofluvial, drift is carried by waters flowing from the melting ice of a glacier. The flowing water sorts the particles, generally depositing layers of coarser particles nearer the point...
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Pangaea
Pangaea Early in the twentieth century the German scientist Alfred Wegener postulated that, commencing in the Mesozoic and continuing up to the present, a huge supercontinent, ‘Pangaea’ (meaning ‘all land’), had rifted and the fragmented components had moved apart as a...
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Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula southeasternmost peninsula of Europe, c.200,000 sq mi (518,000 sq km), bounded by the Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Adriatic Sea. Although there is no sharp physiographic separation between the peninsula and Central Europe, the line of th...
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Alexander I
Alexander I 1777-1825, czar of Russia (1801-25), son of Paul I (in whose murder he may have taken an indirect part). In the first years of his reign the liberalism of his Swiss tutor, Frédéric César de La Harpe , seemed to influence Alexander. He suppressed the secret police...
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia , region of N Europe. It consists of the kingdoms of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; Finland and Iceland are usually considered part of Scandinavia. Physiographically, Denmark belongs to the North European Plain rather than to the geologically distinct Scandinavian peninsula (which is part ...
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