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476
Fall Of The Holy Roman Empire
Alaric led The Visigoths who breached the walls of Rome and sacked the capital of the Roman Empire. They looted, sacked, burned, and killed their way through the city for three days. Emperor Constantine's law that legalized christianity caused to the downfall of the empire because the empeor was no longer recognized as a god.
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Period: 476 to 1400
Middle Ages
The fall of the Holy Roman Empire is considered the start of the Middle Ages. It only started to end once the ages of Enlightenment & Discovery began. Wars and or conflicts never ended and many people died. The wars death and etc helped the spread of epidemics like the black plague.
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1193
Crusades(date is in the Middle of the time period)
A series of holy wars fought between the Christians and Muslims. There were 8 major crusades throughout the timespan of 1096 - 1291. The First crusade started when Alexius Comnenus asked Pope Urban II for mercenary troops to help face the Turks. The Pope accepted and in November of that year he called for Christians to take up arms .
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Period: 1300 to
Renaissance period
This is a cultural revolution instead of a technological one. It is the time period when da Vinci, Michelangelo, etc lived. Some of the things that became more important are sculpting painting, & metalwork. da Vinci is famous for his paintings even though he didn't really like it he prefered sculpting and his inventions.
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1517
Protestant Reformation
the Protestant Reformation reformed how people thought, their cultures, & more. It was the start of questioning religion. The Church struggled for power over certain places and people. The start of the Protestant Reformation is normally tied to Martin Luther's "95 Theses".
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The Enlightenment
This is the beginning of science. People began to question the church. The enlightenment produced many books and other literature. It also leads to the creation of the printing press and other inventions. (https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/enlightenment) -
French Revolution
France was on the brink of bankruptcy because of King Louis's spending in the American Revolution. The country had also had had 2 decades of poor harvests drought. On top of that, there was also cattle disease and skyrocketing bread prices. By the time the gov realized what he had done wrong the peasants were on his doorstep. What a Coincidence.
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Industrial Revolution
It started in England much earlier than the rest of the world. This is when electricity the cotton gin, railroad, and other inventions came along. This is what leads to the making child labor illegal. It also killed the cottage working because they just had machines do it and had the people keep them operating.
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WWI
On April 25th, 1915 the Aussies and other nations land on the beaches in the Anzac Cove. This battle is known as the Invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula. This battle is looked back at as a mistake by bolth parties.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i) -
WWII
Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and then britian declaired war on Germany. Shortyly after germany conquers france. The Nazi's are closing in on british soldiers that are retreating to england. England uses all civilian boats to rescue the soldiers
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NATO
A group of 12 countries comes together to in 1949 to create nato. NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty. Nato was basically an alliance against communism. Most of western Europe is in Nato.
(https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/formation-of-nato-and-warsaw-pact) -
Warsaw
The Warsaw pact was a response to Nato. It was an alliance of mostly communist countries. They agreed that spreading communism was a good idea. The alliances fell apart after 1990
(https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/formation-of-nato-and-warsaw-pact) -
Cold War
Was a large game of chess with nukes and countries as pieces. One giant arms race with nukes and missiles. America entered a lot of wars to stop the spread of communism. It is called the cold war because there was no actual fighting directly between the Soviet Union and America.
(https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war) -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On 11/9/1989 the spokesman of East Berlin’s Communist Party announced that citizens were free to cross. People of the East and West side chanted “Tor auf!” or open the gate. That weekend 2million+ people went to the west side of the wall to celebrate. During that weekend people used hammers and picks to tear the wall down in ceryian places.
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Colapse of Soviet Union
The soviet union's flag was flown for the last time on Christmas day of 1991. 11 of 15 of The Soviet Republic Representatives came to Kazakh city of Alma-Ata to announce that they were leaving the Union. 3 of the Soviet States had already left. Only one of the Soviet states remained in the union, Georgia. The soviet union fell because of overspending and debet.
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Creation of European Union
Was done to unite Europe politically. It created a new currency that is used throughout Europe. It financially benefits the small countries in Europe. Founded in 1957.
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/european-union-goes-into-effect)
