European History

Athens Democracy

500 BCE

In the Athens Democracy, Male Citizens has all rights, whereas female citizens did not. It was the first ever democracy in Europe. Thats where every citizen gets to vote on everything. But like I said Women and Slaves were not allowed to because they were not considered citizens.

Athens Democracy (pt 2)

500 BCE

This was a very big event because it told men that they were better then women when really everyone is equal. Women had to fight for their rights. It impacted history cause this set an example to other countries. This is why we had such an issue with women and enslaved citizens. And look at us today, we have rights. It really inspired other people who were going through something like this.

Christianity (pt 2)

329

This was a huge impact on Europe, I mean Rome now had an official religion. This really helped the Christians out because they were not ashamed to share their beliefs. The reason it had such a big impact is because it is still used today. It is the largest religion used in Europe. The religion in Europe has really impacted the art, society, and culture there.

Christianity

329

Christianity is so big in Europe. During the Pax Romana is when Christianity really started to develop in Rome. Public unrest had started so they then executed Jesus. Yet after his followers reported he rose from he dead. That was their proof that Jesus is the son of God. They then wanted to spread teachings about God, so they established a Christian Church. In 392 AD they established Christianity as their official religion.

Rome Declines

476

In the Western Roman Empire there was a big fallout.

Rome Declines (pt 2)

476

Feudalism in the Middle Ages

1000

The Government System in the Middle Ages was bad, Charlemagne was one of the first people to rule Europe. But unfortunately he passed away. After his death, the whole government system was terrible, nobody had a tremendous power over this empire. By the 1000's a new political/social system arrived. Feudalism was when kings gave land to the nobles. Basically everyone would work for something and the kings would pay them with land, houses, protection, etc.

Feudalism in the Middle Ages (Pt. 2)

1000

Feudalism in the middle ages impacted the political ways enormously. Their government was broken and this had fixed it. It also helped the nobles and others below the kings with getting things they needed. Feudalism is not used much today anymore. Why? Because when the Bubonic Plague hit, almost everyone died out including the kings, so the people were left were usually peasants cause there was more of them.

The Crusades

1212

The crusades is a bunch of religious "wars" that took place. There was a starting "trend" of an islamic group or muslim group. The crusades originally started in the 1000s. The purpose is to gain back the Christian land from the muslims.

The Crusades

1212

This, I would say was such a big impact on Europe. It started many wars between the Muslims and the Christians. It impacted the Europeans because it allowed trade to be much smoother between the Muslim and European lands. It gave a big advantage to the kings because where they taxed the goods that go across the border they got a lot of money. Kings had also taken land from the people who went to fight in the Crusades.

The Renaissance

1300

When people were recovering from the Bubonic Plague, art and leaning turned into a big thing for Europe. It went from 1300-1700. It was a really different art that people had never seen before. An example of an artist from this period is Leonardo Da Vinci. This also started humanism.

The Renaissance (pt 2)

1300

This event really changed the art throughout the years. The art before the Renaissance was not very good art, it was weirder. This period of time really started to focus on people in their art and real-life paintings. It changed because they wanted to focus on cultural paintings. A lot of people still use Renaissance like art ideas for paintings today.

The Bubonic Plague

1347

The Bubonic Plague started in China. It killed about 25 million people. It lasted for centuries and people usually caught it when they lived close or were in crowded cities. It kills abruptly 50% which if you went by that data, it infected almost 50 million people!!

The Bubonic Plague (Analyze)

1347

This had a big impact with Feudalism as well. It is a big impact on history because when they found a way to prevent it, it was major. it was such a big thing because of how many people it killed. It was very sad and disturbing. It was actually a pretty big thing for the whole world. Everyone was trying to prevent it. Also it came form trade and slowed it down. It damaged the economy that way.

The Reformation (pt 2)

1517

The reason the Reformation was such a big thing is because it changed the way people viewed Christianity. It also cause many small wars between the two groups. It also caused the Kings and Queens to gain more power. Since church leaders authority and power got questioned the monarchs found a way to gain more power. It was a positive and negative thing.

The Reformation

1517

The reformation was big. It was really rebuilding religion in Europe. Martin Luther had been going around correcting some church practices. But the Roman pope did not approve. Martin Luther's movements started a new Christianity called Protestantism The Roman Catholics and Protestants got in many wars, that were eventually resolved.