Northern Europe

The chosen focus for this paper is Greece, due to its establishment as the gateway into Europe for most refugees. Research has indicated that most refugees arrive to Europe by sea, and many by travelling to Turkey and sailing to one of over 6000 Greek islands, many of which are nearby (Lamb, 2016). They then travel to Athens, and find transportation to reach the borders of other European nations (Lamb, 2016). Greece’s significance in migration studies is further emphasized due to the global…

The fourteenth century was a time for cultural evolution in Europe. This evolution that was initiated first in Italy was called, Rinascimento, later became known as the Renaissance. It was a time which began after the Middle Ages and was accompanied by both the Reformation and Humanism. The Renaissance lead to a return to the classical arts of Roman and Greek Antiquity. The Catholic Church had remained a major patron of the arts during the Renaissance. Works of art were commissioned by the…

World War I changed the economic, social, and political structures of most countries across the world. One century ago when World War I began, the maps of Africa, Asia, and Europe appeared much different from the way they are presently (Halperin, 115). Most historians have agreed that most of the border changes that were agreed upon after the war were made based on political rather than economic reasons, thereby bringing about new problems whose impacts can still be felt today (Lamy, 108). After…

immigration. This then resulted in the Quota Act that set an annual “limit on immigration to 350,000 immigrants per year” (Cannato pg. 333). The law was mainly created to lower and prevent the numbers of immigrants coming from eastern and southern Europe. Then the quota set in 1921 was revised. In the National Origins Act, for immigration in 1924 went from 350,000 to 287,000 people. This quota was determined by “2% of each country’s foreign-born population based on the 1890 Census living in the…

Peaceful missionaries went to schools of Eastern languages in hope of learning enough to convert the leaders of the East to Christianity (Prawer). The demand the Crusades created for Eastern goods combined with the crusading spirit of conversion launched Europe into the Age of Exploration. The Crusades created the economic demand that lead to the discovery of North America. Italian merchant cities became prosperous transporting crusaders across the Mediterranean Sea to the Levant and shipping…

admired doctrines of ancient Greece and Rome as “urban, cosmopolitan, and often republican Italian scholars and statesmen” believed it to be a reflection of their own experiences, instead of the “rural, feudal, usually monarchical values of Medieval Europe” (Bartlett, p. 5). Although the start of Renaissance in Italy can be accounted to the geographical location of the Italian…

ended an age of innovation. Once Rome fell, Europe was throw into a time of uncertainty and backwardness. Stark disagrees completely with these theories and says that the fall of Rome created immense progress. Stark does agree that the middle ages was full is disunity. He argues that the disunity created progress not chaos. The smaller areas of civilization, as opposed to large empires, could experiment and see what was successful and what was not. Europe got to learn how to do civilization in…

The Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northern Europe brought a “revival” to the arts. A prosperous middle class arose and were able to purchase artist’s art work. Many of these pieces had religious themes, their style and creativity, made for more pieces to be created. All over Northern Europe artwork thrived. Within the 15th century both Masaccio and Van Eyck share great religious values of Christian faith within their paintings. The notion of God and saints is very noticeable because each…

The early 1600s saw the commencing of a large tide of emigration from Europe to North America. Spanning more than three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonists to a flood of millions of newcomers. Impelled by powerful and diverse motivations, they built a new civilization on the northern part of the continent. The first English immigrants to what is now the United States crossed the Atlantic long after thriving Spanish colonies had been established in…

some countries this meant the abolition of feudalism, reduction of the rights of the clergy, a more centralized government, and an increased number of property owners. This was especially felt in areas seized by Napoleon such as some German states, northern Italy, and the kingdom of Naples. (Merriman 1996, pp.544-545) The French Revolution also triggered the wakening of other nations, for example the revolutionary movement in Latin America a few decades later that resulted in the formation of…