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476
Fall of the Roman Empire
This was the time when the Roman empire fell. They were overthrown by Odoacer, a German leader, and he was the first Barbarian to rule Rome. The Empire had ruled for about 1000 years. Soon after, Europe fell into the Dark ages.
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Period: 476 to 800
The middle ages aka Dark ages
Once the roman empire fell, the dark ages began. One reason how the dark ages get its name is that historians did not know much about what went on during this period. Now is forever lost in history.Many invasions and diseases happened during this period. Then eventually famine stroke and the hundred year war begun.
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Period: 1095 to 1291
Crusades
The Seljuk Turks took over the holy lands in which Jewish nor Christian pilgrims were allowed. The pope of southern France commanded to take back the holy land. This was the starting point of the Crusades. There were many wars leading up. The war was between Muslims and Christians
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Period: 1300 to
The renaissance
The renaissance is considered the bridge between the dark ages and the modern ages.These times were also the birth of the philosophy of humanism. It originally started in Italy then it spread throughout Europe
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Period: 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
This time was mainly focused on restoring the belief and religious beliefs of the roman catholic church. Martin Luther also conflicted with theses events. Martin published "95 these" which lead of to the start of the reformation.
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the age of Enlightenment
European politics, philosophy, science and communications are a major part of this period. This time was called the age of reasoning.
The age of enlightenment led right to the american revolution, French revolution and even the industrial revolution.
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Industrial Revolution
The British revolution had been evolving over many years. Wages labors, manufacturing, and business had skyrocketed in the early 19th century. A major invention that was created during these times was the steam engine created by James Watt. After this invention, steamboats, factories, and trains soon became a thing.
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French Revolution
An important leader during this time was Maximilien de Robespierre. Also Napoleon Bonaparte had gained power of France . Mean while Robespierre had his execution. Some causes of the French revolution were complete monarchy, corrupt leadership, inflation, poorly structured social class structure, enlightenment, so much more.
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War World 1
Soon after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand war world 1 begun. The war was mainly Britain and France's victory. Germany was the main loser. There were the triple entente vs central powers. When the war ended at 11 am, Germany signed an agreement to stop fighting. -
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War World 2
The war world started from the rise of Italian fascism in the 1920s., Japanese militarism and intrusion of China in the 1930s, the political increment in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi Party and not forgetting their aggressive foreign policy that begun in the 1936.
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Cold War
The cold war was the time where there was still tension between other countries after the war world 2. On cause was about the democrats having the idea of a communist country. This was a fear during these times that america was going to be a communist country. The soviet Union and the USA were the strongest after War World 2 ended. The cold war was basically the conflict of the ideas a economics and government. -
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NATO vs Warsaw pact
There was a collision between western nations and eastern communists. Ideally, they were trying to stop the spreading of communist influence. The NATO was the establishment of alliance between the Soviet Union and many of the eastern Europe countries. This provided the framework for the military standoff in which endured throughout the cold war.
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Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was built to keep out the western "fascists" from crossing the eastern Germany because they feared that they were destroying the social state. The wall went east to west. Only the German communist party was allowed to cross whenever. Many were unhappy about this. That night there was a swarm of people who had pix axes and hammers and destroyed the Berlin wall.
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
Some reasons that lead up to the collapse of the soviet union were Perestroika and Glasnost, aging politburo was less ideologically pure, western aggression, guns and butter, and nationalist movements. This brought changes and led to the fall of the soviet union. Even though it seemed like they were doing so well, they were falling to pieces quickly. https://graduate.norwich.edu/resources-mmh/articles-mmh/exploring-5-reasons-for-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union/ -
Creation of the European Union
The creation of the European union was built from the Maastricht Treaty. European countries had the right create their own policies. Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were the six countries that formed the union
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/what-is-the-eu-why-was-it-formed-and-when-was-it-created/
