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Period: 27 BCE to 476
Roman Empire
Decline in the Western Roman empire in which failed to take control because of its lost strength of the routine, so it divided into separate territories. The mass migration was caused by the rise of the barbarians called the Huns invasion. This invasion resulted in many Germanic tribes to the borders of the Roman Empire. -
Period: 476 to 1453
Middle Ages
European time period from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance, defined by wars and religions. Contains three divisional historic periods: Western, Medieval, and a tad of modern. Population decline, invasion, and movement of people had just been picked up in the middle ages. -
Period: 1095 to 1295
Crusades
Was the time period of fight for religion and land in the middle east. Mediterranean civilizations: Byzantine Empire, Pope Urban 2nd, Roman Empire. The Templar knights were also a big part of the Crusades, and they fought for what was called the Holy Land in different Western European regions. -
Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
Covers much of Europe as it begins the modern ages. The basis of the Renaissance was the competition of humanism: new inventions that humans had never thought before that time- such as arts, architecture, politics, science, and literature. These intellectual subjects lead to the creation of a place for education- school. -
Period: 1517 to
Protestant reformation
Religious and cultural setting in Europe that capitalized structures and beliefs for them, define the cultural content for the modern era. This triggered war and persecutions with other religions. Catholics believed in Counter-reformation and many churches, same as modern day Catholics. This reformed the countries in Europe to determine their religion: Catholic or Christianity. -
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Age of Enlightenment
Enlightenment was the age of advancement of philosophy and science. Great enlightenment thinkers of this time produced books, articles, inventions, laws, and many more scientific discoveries. The influence of the enlightenment lead to ideas in wars such as the american and the french revolution. The High enlightenment was its prime, which represented French philosophers: Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau. -
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Industrial Revolution
A period in which America was on the verge of becoming industrial and urban. This is when manufacturing was done in factories in the result of new machinery and mass production. This developed new routines of society: transporting, banking, communication and also offered living conditions and higher employment rates for the poor. -
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French Revolution
This was the redesign and reformation of France led by Napoleon Bonaparte. They took their political landscape to the next level with an absolute monarchy. This was the first nation to completely reshape themselves, influenced from the ideas of the enlightenment just like the American revolution. -
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WW1
Was the first world war, also known as the great war to end all wars. There were two sides, Central: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman empire Allies: Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romanie, Japan, and the U.S. New military technologies and strategies such as trench warfare and new levels of destruction: Tanks, machine guns, gas grenades all were new advanced weaponry used in this war. -
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WW2
Was the second world war. Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan Allies: S. U., China, U.S., Britain, Australia, France, Canada, etc. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party thrived to reform the nation and allied with Italy and Japan, it was not enough for the rest of the world. Hitler invasion of Poland 1939 and all of the Jews in the holocaust led to GB and France to declare war on the dirty Nazis. After 6 years of war and D-day to top it off, Hitler took the easy way out. -
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Cold War
Wasn’t really a physically war. It was a developed competition influenced by World War 2 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It limited weaponry usage. Instead it was a rivalry of political and economic rules and propagandas. Communism was a huge idea that was attempted to be spread around Europe by the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union set up satellites to establish their command for the armed forces. Included countries: Poland, Hungary, East of Germany, Bulgaria, etc. to sign this treaty as well. The treaty basically gave the allied states the rule that if anyone was building up on to an attack, they would help for the defense. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Was built by the Communist government of Germany in 1961. Was a barbed wired, concrete wall built to bisect East and West Berlin. The day of the fall, East Berlin wasn’t having it anymore. After the permission of the East Berlin government, all the citizens were crossing the wall, and some were breaking it down with pickaxes. -
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
This event granted self-governing independence to the republics of the Soviet Union, leading to the conclusion of the cold war. Mikhail Gorbachev quit as president the day it happened and Boris Yeltsin was the replacement. President Bush highly approved of these independence movements made by the independent Russian state. -
Creation of the European Union
Geography of majority of Europe to establish this political group of 28 states. The general idea of peace was to make the thought of war not even possible. The Treaty of Paris, European Coal and Steel Community, and the Treaty of Rome all established the European economic community (EEC) for the European countries to share institutions.
