History of Europe

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…

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…

countries who take in refugees and other countries have to share the burden. We can use history to help us in situations like this, in this era. During the inter war years the League of Nations commissioner created passports for refugees to use. These were internationally recognized 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…

Denmark Denmark is native to Europe Denmark is a very unique place in its own way. It has a beautiful history, and is very different from the United States. It’s history, religion and government etc. has it’s own traditions that have been around for years Denmark is one of the oldest states in Europe and the oldest kingdom in the world. Nordic country and a sovereign state. It emerged in the 10th century. Denmark in danish is pronounced” Danmark”. The current monarch, Queen Margrethe II, can…

This year alone Europe has had over 300,000 refugees seeking asylum. A refugee is a person that had been forced to escape their country in order to get away from war, persecution, or natural disaster. Europe is currently facing an extreme influx of refugees unseen since World War 2. During, World War 2 many people needed to escape from the damages that the Holocaust had caused, Europe had an abundance of displaced people. With diverse problems in Syria, many people need to escape the…

Continent, Mark Mazower critically analyses the history of the competing political ideologies that shaped twentieth century Europe. In this provocative examination, Mazower highlights a portrait of Europe’s “inter-war experiment with democracy,” where each European state has had its own significant historical events that intertwine and ultimately shaped the continent as a whole. Through exhaustive studies of evolving social, economic and political climates in Europe through World War I, the…

the West Background In Europe some the first evidence of humans are rudimentary cave paintings in Chauvet Cave in southern France around 35,000 years ago. (ZORICH) People progressed from this into small towns and the beginnings of governments formed around the coast of the Mediterranean. Later civilizations around the Mediterranean and the start of Greco-Roman culture. With the rise and fall of the Bronze Age came new powers and enemies. The Romans united most of Europe for the first time…

and navigation methods that created new trade routes and trade partners. It was a time of unprecedented change, advancements in cosmography and geography, and great exploration. Since the discovery of the Americas in 1492, particularly in western Europe, was spread a will to explore the outside world, a desire of expand in order to discover and civilize…

taught in history books is before the colonial era Europe was going through the plague and deep poverty rate. They were in the dark ages and had no growth as a region. During that time, the Americas, Africa, and Asia had their own history and civilization. The Americas had advanced infrastructure. Some of these nations had waste lines moving wastes from the city to outside the region, which was a problem Europe was heavily suffering from. At the beginning of the 1500’s we see Europe gaining…

Patterns of Florence in the Middle Ages Daiveyon Monroe History 150 Land of the Free, as an American would say, but what about other countries like Europe, China, Africa, Islam, etc… Maybe these other countries definition of “freedom” differs from our own. Europe, in the time from1000 to 1500, had cities with unparalleled freedom compared to any other cities in the world (Reilly, 484). The urban patterns and development throughout these towns in Europe, during the Post-Classical Era, couldn’t…