European history

  • 3000 BCE

    prehistory

    prehistory
    One of the only ways we know what was happening at that time was though the photos on the cave walls. The photos were things like animals, peoples hands, and people hunting.
  • 3000 BCE

    prehistory

    prehistory
    They did things like hunt, fish, and explore. We can assume that kids where brought down there because there are hands the size of kids hands which means that they didn't move to far from the caves because they relied on them enough to bring their kids down there.
  • 200 BCE

    The Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire
    Rome was a dominant power in Italy and became a Republic in about 509 BCE. Their laws are still used today like a person is innocent until proven guilty. In about 200 BCE the Roman armies began to expand their territory. As they expanded they grew in numbers because they offered conquered people to become people of Rome.
  • 199 BCE

    The Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire
    When the created their law system it allowed rules that are still used today and helped develop other laws. Since they conquered so much land they got to spread out and where able to be conquered by so may people that they were overthrew. Even though they where conquered they still influence people today. Like their language is a base language for now day languages in Europe today.
  • 150 BCE

    Ancient Greece

    Ancient Greece
    Ancient Greece is place where a lot of stuff started like City-states. One of the City-states is Athens, it introduced the first democracy the world has seen. The Persians soon decided to attack Greece but the another City-state in Greece went out and met them at the Hot Gates to defend Greece.
  • 150 BCE

    Ancient Greece

    Ancient Greece
    Since Sparta went to fight the Persian army's of 100000 with only their 300 men they held them off at the Hot Gates long enough for the rest of Greece to gather together. Since the Hot Gates would only allow 20 men to pass at a time their 300 men could hold them off. So all of Greece was able to join and force the Persians back to Persia. They were able to stay City-States until they were conquered by Philip of Macedonia.
  • 1000

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    The Middle Ages or dark ages as they where called because of the few inventions. It created feudalism because they didn't have a government at the time. Feudalism is a government system where the kings let nobles run the knights and the peasants live off the government which sells the farm food that the peasants grow.
  • 1000

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    The reason they didn’t need to make new things was because the Romans had made it all for them. So they never had to create new things which is why it was called the dark ages. They didn’t even realize that they needed to make new things. The reason that they started to create new things was because of the Black Plague.
  • 1325

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a time when a lot was made. A lot of famous artists where from that time like Leandro da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raffael. Leandro da Vinci was also an inventor. The reason the Renaissance started was because the dark ages made made few inventions and couldn’t make new things to survive.
  • 1326

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    The reason they made many new things was because of the dark ages. But during this time humans where thought that we can always do better than previous generations. Which is why we make so many new and improved things everyday. During that time we where also thought new art comes with times.
  • World War 1

    World War 1
    World War 1 was fought between Britain, United States, France, Russia, and Italy as the Allies. While the central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. It was fought from July 28 1914 to November 11 1918. It started because Archduke fanz Ferdinan was assinated on June 28 1914. It ended when Germany signed a peace treaty 1918.
  • World War 1

    World War 1
    When World War 1 started it caused a lot of chaos in different places. World War 1 caused a lot of new war weapons like tanks, planes for battle, and new types of guns. It also causes people a ton of money on the damages to the buildings that they fought in and around.
  • World War 2

    World War 2
    World War 2 was fought between Germany, Italy, and Japan as the axis powers and US, Britain, France, China, Canada, the Soviet Union, Australia, New Zeland, and India. It started on September 1 1939 and ended on September 2 1945. During the war Germany did a thing called the Holocaust where they took Jewish people and took them to camps that did horrible things to them. It ended a week after adalf hitler killed himself during a raid by America.
  • World War 2

    World War 2
    The reason World War 2 started because Germany lead an invasion on Poland and refused to take them out when Britain told them to so Great Britain declared war on Germany. During that war a lot of countries began to fight against Germany. The US was going to stay natural but went to war after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. It started to even the sides when the US joined. After the war ended Germany had to sign that they couldn’t have any nukes because the had ended because of them.
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The cold wasn’t really a war just the US and the Soviet Union sending money to money to counties that were fighting the US or the Soviet Union. The reason was because neither of the countries could declare war on the other. It start on 1949 and ended during 1991.
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    Started because two of the world powers (US and Soviet Union) were struggling for power. The reason they were struggling for power was because they both were countries that had nukes and powerful allies. So when one of them went to battle with a different country the other would give money and weapons to the country that they were fighting.