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Development of Europe Timeline Test Review

Development of Europe Timeline Test Review. Ancient Greeks. r oughly 1200 BC to 300 BC c entered around the Mediterranean Sea m ade up of several city-states Athens and Sparta (most famous city-states) Alexander the Great. Ancient Romans. r oughly 500 BC to 500 AD

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Development of Europe Timeline Test Review

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  1. Development of EuropeTimeline Test Review

  2. Ancient Greeks • roughly 1200 BC to 300 BC • centered around the Mediterranean Sea • made up of several city-states • Athens and Sparta (most famous city-states) • Alexander the Great

  3. Ancient Romans • roughly 500 BC to 500 AD • laws created by elected officials • Julius Caesar • Emperor Augustus and the PaxRomama

  4. Middle Ages • roughly 800 AD – to 1300 AD • many people lived under the feudal system

  5. European Exploration • roughly 1450 AD to 1750 AD • Spain = Latin America and parts of the Caribbean • Portugal = Brazil, and parts of Asia and Africa • England = 13 original American colonies, Canada, Australia, parts of Caribbean and Africa • France = Canada (originally) and parts of Caribbean (Haiti), Asia, and Africa • Prince Henry the Navigator

  6. European Colonization • roughly 1600 AD to 1919 AD (end of World War I) • European empires spanned the world • Europe split Africa into several colonies with no regard to history or tribal territory. • Europe developed colonies in Asia (such as the Philipines (Spain), India (England), and Vietnam (France). • several colonies began independence movements • European empires were broken up after World War I and its tangled issues of alliances and nationalism.

  7. Industrial Revolution • roughly 1750 AD – 1900 AD • shift from agrarian to industrial economy • large urban growth • many goods are mass-produced (factory-made) for the first time, such as weapons

  8. World War I • 1914 – 1918 • causes = nationalism, European empires, tangled alliances among nations • largest players = Austria-Hungary and Germany verses United Kingdom, Russia, France, and the United States • began when Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo (then part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire) • ended by the Treaty of Versailles • Germany blamed for the war and ordered to pay reparations • results = worldwide depression, Russian Revolution 1917-18 • end of czarist rule • eventually, the Bolshevks gain control of government (leading to communism and the USSR)

  9. Great Depression • October 29,1929 – 1939 • Worldwide depression • Severe unemployment and rampant hyperinflation • Germany hit very hard, currency virtually worthless • Helps the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler, they’re elected and take control of Germany

  10. World War II • 1939 – 1945 • Axis Powers verses Allied Powers • Jews blamed for Germany’s troubles = Holocaust (murder of 6 million jews) • Cold War begins in Occupied Berlin • 2 superpowers emerge – United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

  11. Cold War Begins • 1948 – 1991 (height of Cold War was 1950s to 1970s) • marked by fear of nuclear weapons • communism verses democracy • Berlin Wall – symbol of split • East and West Germany reunified in 1989 • Soviet Union falls in 1991, after Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika

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