HISTORY AND GOVERMENTS

ACIENT GREECE

• PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY SHAPED THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACIENT GREECE
• Mountains and seas isolated the country keeping them independent
• One of the most powerful cities of Ancient Greece was Athens
• The first democracy was introduced by Athens
• By 130 b.c. The Roman Empire conquered most of Greece

THE ROMAN EMPIRE

• Rome became a dominant power on the Italian pinensuala
• The Roman Empire was a republlic Where people chose they're leaders
• Roman law led to standards of justice still used today
• About 200 bc roman armies started to seize territory
• The first roman emperor was Augustus

CHRISTIANITY

• Jesus of Nazareth preached a message of love and forgiveness
• He attracted many followers and enemies
• Roman authorities had Jesus executed
• But within days his followers reported he had risen from the dead
• Christian leaders peter and Paul established a Christian church in Rome

ROME'S DECLICINE

• In ad 476 Germanic leaders overthrew the last Rome emperor
• Rome had great influence on the west and Europe
• It spread classical culture and Christianity as we'll and legal systems in many countries
• They also influenced many architectural styles

THE MIDDLE AGES

• A Germanic king named Charlemagne united most do Western Europe
• No strong government s could withstand the invaders
• Most Western European where poor

CHRISTIAN EUROPE

• The Byzantine empire passed on the Eastern Orthodoxy
• And Greek and roman culture to slavic groups
• The Roman Catholic Church in Rome was headed by a powerful pope

THE CURSADES

• The Christian faith united Europeans
• Western Europe gathered volunteers to make large armies to claim the holy land back
• The bubonic plague spread rapidly and killed a third of Europeans population

THE RENISSANCE

• People started taking interest in art and learning
• Humanism said that faith was a path to knowledge

THE REFORMATION

• Martian Luther sets out to reform churches
• Portuguese navigators make new trade routes to get spices faster

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

• Europeans turn to science for ways to explain
• Ideas spark a revolution

INDUSTRY AND CONFLICT

• Instead of making things by hand it is now done by factories
• Many people left to find work in cities

A NEW ERA FOR EUROPE

• In 1989 forced several communist powers in to democracies
• The EU allows good services and workers to move freely to countries