Europe

Anna Porter’s Ghosts of Europe, is far from a typical book one would read within an academic setting. The book explores four countries in an attempt to solidify the unclear identity that is Europe, and expand the notion of a Central Europe. This is a concept based upon a wisp of an idea to create a social and cultural identity. As a testament to Central Europe’s complicated past, Porter goes to great trouble to further develop the complexity of this region’s current presence and to explore the…

The Prejudices Against Muslims in Europe Rifat Serin One of the continuities in European History is prejudice against Islam and Muslims. This continuity has come from the idea of Europe. According to idea of Europe, the two of the enemies of the Europeans are the Ottomans and Islam. In this manner, the idea of Europe supported crusades attacks against Muslims in the past, and the concept of jihad appeared in the side of Muslims against non-Muslims. Of course, some of Muslims interpreted on…

Byzantium, the Islamic Empire, and Western Europe. All three have blaring similarities and differences that can be accounted for due to the decline of Rome. Byzantium found its stability from its previous life alongside the previous Great Empire of Rome, it took away Rome’s legal institutions and even their political structure. Western Europe also made use of some of Rome’s older policies as well and even the main religion of Byzantium and Western Europe were both Christianity. Religion is where…

When looking at nationalism's effect on Europe it is obvious it had a major impact on the political landscape of Europe. In some cases it fueled revolutions and in other cases the ideal itself was its own undoing. For example in Germany and Italy there was a strong nationalist movement that worked to unite their countries into a single state giving them strong regional power. This worked out very well for these nations being that they were many small states all becoming one larger state. However…

The effects of the Genghis Khan Empire in medieval Europe The Mongols were primarily nomadic people, however, in the late 12th century, a ruler named Temujin was able to bring them together. Temujin incorporated different tribes into one and formed the Genghis Khan Empire. In 1209, the Genghis Khan Empire invaded northern china, and continued their invasion for the following decades; by 1279 the entire Chinese region would be under the Mongol rule. Under Temujin’s grandson, the Mongols spread…

impacted Western Europe immensely after the fall of Rome, which inspired great change throughout the region, a negative impact known as the Dark Ages. Following the Crusades, the main result was the restoration of commerce, including the economic alteration of decline of feudal manoralism, prevalent in the early medieval era and the rising urbanization offering plebeians greater social flexibility and created innovation. While economic transformations occurred throughout Western Europe, the…

Why and how Europe rise to the top? Why did Europe discovered the New World not Asia or Africa? Chinese had the same equipments than Europeans, some equipments were even better than the ones Europeans had. Even compass was invented and developed outside Europe. So why did Europe come out on top? One of the reasons might be because European kings wanted more power and they got more power by expanding their empires. European countries were geographically close and most of them were really small so…

The countries of Europe did not have the best relationships during the early 1900’s. Many secret treaties were made throughout the countries of Europe which would coincidently pull all of Europe into a war. They had disputes about territory while they were trying to colonize the rest of the world for their own benefit. Also racing to have to have the biggest military was just asking to provoke trouble with other countries. There also many different ethnic groups within countries. These ethnic…

Based off of reading “Contact: Europe And America Meet”, contact between the Indians and Europeans exhibited more drawbacks than it did benefits, so I believe contact was bad. The Europeans mindset of the Americas was glorious at the beginning, but once they reached the land and saw the Indians that all changed. The Europeans believed that power and wealth is they only important aspect. They fought the Indians for their land at the price of gaining a higher social class. I believe the contact…

Modern times are the ultimate byproduct of the endless attempts of Europe to spread their influence across the world. Think about it, we defined our existence as a society from the primordial hotspot of Europe. That is because their ability to stretch their power to the edge of the Earth. These places were not discovered which is common misnomer because they were already inhabited by millions upon millions of people native to the area; places like America, Asia and Africa had massive cultural…