Central Europe

that is exactly what the Renaissance represented. “Rebirth” fits the description of the Renaissance because of the desire to learn and to discover that took place. Out of all the place in Europe the Renaissance started in Italy. The Renaissance started in Italy because it was the center of the Roman Empire, central point for trade, and it supported ideas and learning. One of the reasons that the Renaissance began in Italy is because Italy was the center of the Roman Empire. Not only was it the…

From 1450 to 1700, the world saw navigational advancements that led to a competition among Europe for the land and resources across the Atlantic Ocean, and how each country could profit from these discoveries. Europe’s Age of Exploration introduced new economic theories and practices that affected many countries thereafter by impacting economies on both a local and global scale. For more than two centuries, Western Europe’s Atlantic expansion brought economic prosperity specifically to Spain and…

The Black Death – as it is commonly called – especially ravaged Europe, which was halfway through a century already marked by war, famine and scandal in the church, which had moved its headquarters from Rome to Avignon, France, to escape infighting among the cardinals. In the end, some 75 million people succumbed, it is estimated. It took several centuries for the world's population to recover from the devastation of the plague, but some social changes, borne by watching corpses pile up in the…

It is the world’s first global conflict. it was an event that began on 28 August 1914 that caused almost 10 million deaths in Europe, therefore almost killing off a generation of Europeans in the end of the war November 11 1918. 4 years of fighting and cruelty. It ended empires in Europe to turn to communism and become a totalitarian stalin in power. it pitted the central powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan,…

in 20th century in the region of South-Eastern Europe. During 18th century, the Ottoman Empire established political and social unity in the Balkan region and it’s called Pax Ottomanica. The Ottoman Empire stabilized the external border of the Balkans, although the Ottoman Empire was declining due to increase of Christian population and power in the region. According to Paschalis M. there are two maps that explain the distribution of languages of Europe between 17th and 18th century. The first…

Diamond argues that geographical luck put Europe on a path to creating the world’s most dominant military technology. However, even a rudimentary knowledge of European and South American history can show that this is not true and that instead it was competition and a survival of the fittest mentality then caused this to be. In Europe, nations were constantly at war and because of this, European countries had to be incessantly improving…

widely in the Late Middle Ages? What was the impact of the plague on Europe (either social, economic or political impact)? Some of the factors that caused the Bubonic Plague to spread so widely in the Late Middle Ages were the rats that were carried in the ships during trades. The Europeans did trading in Central Asia, and during this period the rats which carried the disease would get on the ships and once these ships reached Europe, the disease spread throughout the European countries.…

This year, the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe by sea has reached a new height of 522,124; in which “388,000 arrived in Greece and 130,891 in Italy.” The majority of the people come from countries such as Syria, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan in order to escape war and poverty. Unfortunately, nearly 3,000 migrants have drowned or gone missing in 2015 while attempting to cross the deadly route along the central Mediterranean, along with the route which passes the Aegean Sea. The…

by fifty two countries to help and give protection to over four hundred thousand refugees from all across Europe. This is what Europe and other country’s…

This divided north and south central Europe (namely the areas controlled by the Holy Roman Empire, who was till this point a Catholic Empire). Not only the HRE was effected though, as we see protestant movements in England, not initially the purpose of the formation of the Anglican Church…