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Period: 400 to
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476
Rome Falls Apart
Germanic group of barbarians called the Visgoths invade Rome, destroy the west empire, and exile the Roman Emperor. East empire struggles on until 1453 C.E., but they change their nathion, and are no longer roman, but Byzantine. -
Oct 14, 1066
Normans invade England
When William the Conquerer and the Norman French invaded England, they were only a few miles away from the city of Hastings. William the Conquerer led the Normans to a surprising victory which would change England's language and culture forever.
William also invented Feudalism because of the need for protection. The nobles would give to their vassals, and if the vassals owned enough, they could become a noble themselves. -
Jun 15, 1400
Prince Henry's Navigation
Prince Henry of Portugal makes maps and navigates past Sagres (Meaning sacred, because people back then thought it was the end of the world) which helps the end of Feudalism. Life changes a lot for people in the middle ages. Fuedalism is primarily agricultural, but it brakes down with many inventions about to occur, which is called the Rennisaince. -
Mar 25, 1436
Cathedral of Florence
On march twenty-sixth, 1436, the Great Cathedral of Florence was finished after 140 YEARS of construction. This provided great econimic growth. The Rennesaince was also another one of these economic growths. It means rebirth, and it was a time to see the world and man. Humanism was created here. It is the name given to study classics. They also discovered gunpowder, which made a big explosion in trade. :-) -
WW1
This war was the worst war the world has ever known. 25 countries joined in the war, and over 20,000,000 lives were lost. It all started with a young rebel shooting the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Then, countries became at unrest with each other, so Germany, Austria-hungary, and Italy formed the Triple alliance. Later, the Triple Entente was formed because of the possible threat of Germany, and it consisted of Britain, France, and Russia. -
WW2
On september first, 1939, the Germans decided to invade Poland, taking prisoners and burning the rich land that Poland had. This was the start of World War Two.
The Germans wanted the Polish as slave labor, and did many things to do this, and set Polish apart, and not in a good way.
This was all done for the Germans to try to get a hold of all of Europe. -
ECSC
Since all of the wars have deprived metal and the sort, six countries formed the European Coal and Steal Community (ECSC) to help with this. Robert Shuman created the idea. Now, what countries used to have to gain by force was being gained smoothly in places like Belgium and West Germany. Now, Europe was starting to get rebuilt. -
Berlin Wall
After the two Great Wars, most of Europe lay in ruin. Growing dissatisfaction in political and economic systems made the Soviet side of East Berlin made a huge wall to block out rebels from the English, French, and Americans of West Berlin in 1961 . It was opened for private trips around Berlin on November ninth, 1989, but that was their mistake. People from West Berlin hammered the wall to pieces on December 22, 1989. This signified the fall of the communists, who fell almost simultaneously. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris (which indeed CREATED the idea of the ECSC) was signed in Maastricht, February seventh, 1992. This made MAJOR improvements in the ECSC, and this is also when the European Union was formed. It now consists of the countries of the UK, Ireland, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden. -
Laeken Declaration
Laeken Declaration happened in Brussels, Belgium. It had three main challenges for the Union, and if they can overcome these, the Union will have a good future: "how to bring citizens, and primarily the young, closer to the European design and the European institutions, how to organize politics and the European political area in an enlarged Union and how to develop the Union into a stabilizing factor and a model in the new, multipolar world. These are the excact words of Mr. Laeken.
