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Shaping Eastern Europe

Shaping Eastern Europe. Chapter 9 Section 3. Geography Shapes Eastern Europe. Balkan Peninsula Mountains region Triangular land extending to Mediterranean Danube River and Vistula River Goods and cultural influences traveled these rivers. Migration Contributes to Diversity. Ethnic Group

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Shaping Eastern Europe

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  1. Shaping Eastern Europe Chapter 9 Section 3

  2. Geography Shapes Eastern Europe • Balkan Peninsula • Mountains region • Triangular land extending to Mediterranean • Danube River and Vistula River • Goods and cultural influences traveled these rivers

  3. Migration Contributes to Diversity • Ethnic Group • Group of people who share same language and cultural heritage • Slavs • West Slavs (present day Poland) • South Slavs (Balkans)

  4. Christians and Muslims Influence Region • Byzantine missionaries: Eastern Orthodox Christianity through Balkans

  5. German knights and missionaries: Roman Catholic Christianity to: • Poland • Hungary • Czech • Western Balkans

  6. Jewish expulsions and migrations • England, France, and Spain expelled Jews because: • Black death • Crusades • 1262 Prince Boleslaw of Cracow protects Jews • Polish toleration for 500 years

  7. Three Early Kingdoms Develop • Poland • Hungary (Magyars) • Balkan Kingdom

  8. Poland • Roman Catholicism • Queen Jadwiga and Duke Wladyslaw married 1368 • Poland-Lithuania largest in Europe • Political power: monarchs to nobles • Diet: assembly • Single noble vote block passage of laws

  9. Hungary (Magyars) • Roman Catholicism • Hungarian King sings: Golden Bull of 1222 • Similar to Magna Carta • Limits royal power • Mongols overran Hungary 1241

  10. Serbs in the Balkan Kingdom • Orthodox Christianity • Stefan Dusan (king) • Ottoman Turks overran in 1389 • Culture similar to Byzantine Empire

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