This document summarizes the history of southern Europe from early civilizations to the modern era. It describes how the ancient Greeks and Romans established the foundations of European civilization through developments in philosophy, science, architecture, democracy, and more. Major events and time periods covered include the rise and fall of classical empires and kingdoms, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, world wars, and formation of the European Union.
Ancient RomeBeginning in the eighth century B.C., Anciencheryllwashburn
Ancient Rome
Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands.
Among the many legacies of Roman dominance are the widespread use of the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian) derived from Latin, the modern Western alphabet and calendar and the emergence of Christianity as a major world religion.
They then instead had a council known as the 'senate' which ruled over them. From this point on one speaks of the 'Roman Republic'.
Early Rome was governed by kings, but after only seven of them had ruled, the Romans took power over their own city and ruled themselves
The word 'Republic' itself comes from the Latin (the language of the Romans) words 'res publica' which mean 'public matters' or 'matters of state'.
The senate under the kings had only been there to advise the king. Now the senate appointed a consul, who ruled Rome like a king, but only for one year. - This was a wise idea, as like that, the consul ruled carefully and not as a tyrant, for he knew that otherwise he could be punished by the next consul, once his year was up.
Rome knew four classes of people. This division was very important to the Romans.
The lowest class were the slaves. They were owned by other people. They had no rights at all. The next class were the plebeians. They were free people. But they had little say at all.
The second highest class were the equestrians (sometimes they are called the 'knights'). Their name means the 'riders', as they were given a horse to ride if they were called to fight for Rome. To be an equestrian you had to be rich.
The highest class were the nobles of Rome. They were called 'patricians'. All the real power in Rome lay with them.
The greatest challenge the Roman Republic faced was that of the Carthaginians. Carthage was a very powerful city in North Africa which, much like Rome, controlled its own empire. The fight between the two sides was a long one and took place on land and on sea.
The most famous incident came when the great Carthaginian general Hannibal crossed the mountain chain of the Alps to the north of Italy with all his troops, including his war-elephants, and invaded Italy. Though Rome in the end won and Carthage was completely destroyed in the year 146 BC.
Rome's most famous citizen was no doubt Julius Caesar. He was a Roman politician and general who, without having any orders to do so, conquered the vast territory of the Gauls to the north of his province in France.
In the year 49 BC Caesar crossed the small river between his province and Italy, called the river Rubicon, and conquered Rome itself which he then ruled as a dictator.
His military campaigns also took him to Egypt where he met the famous Cleopatra.
His life though was ended as he was inf ...
Ancient RomeBeginning in the eighth century B.C., Anciencheryllwashburn
Ancient Rome
Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands.
Among the many legacies of Roman dominance are the widespread use of the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian) derived from Latin, the modern Western alphabet and calendar and the emergence of Christianity as a major world religion.
They then instead had a council known as the 'senate' which ruled over them. From this point on one speaks of the 'Roman Republic'.
Early Rome was governed by kings, but after only seven of them had ruled, the Romans took power over their own city and ruled themselves
The word 'Republic' itself comes from the Latin (the language of the Romans) words 'res publica' which mean 'public matters' or 'matters of state'.
The senate under the kings had only been there to advise the king. Now the senate appointed a consul, who ruled Rome like a king, but only for one year. - This was a wise idea, as like that, the consul ruled carefully and not as a tyrant, for he knew that otherwise he could be punished by the next consul, once his year was up.
Rome knew four classes of people. This division was very important to the Romans.
The lowest class were the slaves. They were owned by other people. They had no rights at all. The next class were the plebeians. They were free people. But they had little say at all.
The second highest class were the equestrians (sometimes they are called the 'knights'). Their name means the 'riders', as they were given a horse to ride if they were called to fight for Rome. To be an equestrian you had to be rich.
The highest class were the nobles of Rome. They were called 'patricians'. All the real power in Rome lay with them.
The greatest challenge the Roman Republic faced was that of the Carthaginians. Carthage was a very powerful city in North Africa which, much like Rome, controlled its own empire. The fight between the two sides was a long one and took place on land and on sea.
The most famous incident came when the great Carthaginian general Hannibal crossed the mountain chain of the Alps to the north of Italy with all his troops, including his war-elephants, and invaded Italy. Though Rome in the end won and Carthage was completely destroyed in the year 146 BC.
Rome's most famous citizen was no doubt Julius Caesar. He was a Roman politician and general who, without having any orders to do so, conquered the vast territory of the Gauls to the north of his province in France.
In the year 49 BC Caesar crossed the small river between his province and Italy, called the river Rubicon, and conquered Rome itself which he then ruled as a dictator.
His military campaigns also took him to Egypt where he met the famous Cleopatra.
His life though was ended as he was inf ...
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2. 700’s BCE-476 Classical Era Greece, Alexander, Rome
500-800 Dark Ages, Vikings
800-1400 Middle Ages, Crusades
1400-1600’s Renaissance, Age of Exploration
1700-1900 Age of Empires, Industrial Revolution
1900’s World Wars
Cold War and NATO Alliance
European Union
3. The Ancient Greeks and Romans laid the foundations of
European civilization.
4. The world of the Hellenes (Ancient Greeks) were not a
nation or country, but a cultural community.
6. They lived in city-states linked by language and culture.
7. A city-state is an independent city — and
sometimes its surrounding land — which has
its own government, completely separate from
nearby countries.
8. By the 700’s BCE, they had colonies around the
Mediterranean.
9. The Romans modified the Greek alphabet, which
you are currently writing in your notebook.
10. Homer Wrote masterpieces giving the Greeks an
ideal past of heroes, used as basic
educational texts for generations of Greek
males
11. The city states competed with each other in the
games of Zeus at Olympia.
12.
13. The ancient Olympics included running, long jump,
shot put, javelin, boxing, and wrestling.
19. Democracy is a form of government in which
the citizens participate equally by voting for
the passing or rejecting of laws.
20. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundations of
how people in Europe and the USA think
(philosophy and science).
21. Aristotle laid the foundations of today’s science. His
books and ideas would be banned by priests and
religious leaders until the 1700’s in Europe.
22. They invented Geometry
Pythagoras thought everything could be explains
by Math and MusicA2 + B2= C2
23. • The "Father of History.
• First person to collect
stories and write history.
• He wrote the 7 Wonders of
the World
• He used Gods, magic, and
curses for causes and effect.
Herodotus
484-425 BC
34. While the Greeks fought among themselves, Macedonia took
over all of Greece.
35. Alexander the Great (356 BCE-323 BCE) using the army created by
Philip (his father) took revenge on Darius III and conquered
the Persian Empire.
36. Aristotle’s most famous student.
Brought up in Macedonian army
Never lost a battle
Conquered the known world from age 20-33
Alexander 356BCE-323 BCE LGBTQ+
38. Alexander blended African Asian and European cultures
called Hellenistic and made Babylon the capital of his empire..
39. empire was divided among 3 of his generals, after he died at
age 32, having never lost a battle.
40. The Romans conquered the Greek City States in 146 BCE, and
added Egypt in 32 BCE (Julius Cesare and Cleopatra VII)..
41. The US government system is based on the Roman
Republic, which ended with Julius Cesar.
The Romans brought law, and the idea that all
citizens no matter how high must follow the law.
By the 300’s the Romans converted to Christianity.
Vatican City Rome is still the center of the Roman
Catholic Church, where the Pope lives today.
42.
43.
44.
45. For nine hundred years, Roman legionaries had
engaged in almost continuous warfare.
46. First the Roman Republic, then the Roman Empire forged an
Empire, using Roman warfare combined with Greek Culture.
47. The Romans made many improvements to Italy.
The legions kept peace, built roads, and
infrastructure. .
81. All people poor and rich equal to
God
Salvation threw faith in one God,
not by expensive sacrifices that
Roman Temples required.
A day of judgment for the world.
82. Love not only your friend but even
your enemies
Hebrew Torah becomes OLD
TESTEMET
JC teaching THE NEW TESTEMENT
Christian Charity help everyone
83. St. Peter first bishop of Rome (Pope)
Spread the gospels to Rome.
The Romans crucified him upside down for spreading
the illegal religion.
In a time of economic crisis, Christian bishops were
often the only honest people with money helping
everyone.
84.
85.
86.
87.
88. 35 CE Saint Paul the great organizer of the early
church.
Admitted non Jews.
Most likely beheaded in Rome by Nero.
89. But people flocked to the
religion.
Many join monasteries places
to pray all day and concentrate
on salvation
People give up possessions and
prayed.
91. Edict of Milan 313 Converts Roman Empire to
the universal or Catholic Church, with the
Emperor as head of the Church.
92. Pope of Rome head of church in West, Patriarch of
Constantinople head of church in the East, the
Patriarch of Alexandria the head of church in
Africa.
93. Roman Catholic Church, Russian and Greek
Orthodox Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Church
today. Africa.
131. The Arabs and Africans had dominated international
shipping since the 8th Century. Their Doha ships with
lateen sail could sail against the wind.
132. Mehmet II: 1444--1481
(“The Conqueror”)
In 1453, Mehmet II, the Ottomans, took the city of Constantinople, ending
the Roman Empire in the East (Byzantine Empire).
133. Venice takes over most of the trade routes of the small Empire in 1265
* Istambul
The Ottomans now controlled and closed international trade to Europe,
which the Italian City-States monopolized.
136. Empire a group of states or countries under
a single supreme authority, formerly
especially an emperor or empress.
137. Imperio : Organización política de un estado
que extiende su dominio a otros pueblos y
que en general tiene el poder centrado en
un emperador.
138. Motives for Portugal
“Gold, glory , and God!”
1. God convert people to Christianity called
missionaries.
2. Glory fame, adventure, fun and danger.
3. Gold trade, spices, tea; by-pass Ottomans to get to
China.
Portugal takes the lead.
139. A Map of the Known World 1480
Portugal takes the lead.
140. Portugal had won its independence from the Muslim
Empire during the 2nd Crusade (1145–1149).
Portugal takes the lead.
145. Portuguese explorer’s first success was the
finding the small island of Porto Santo. Then the
Azores.
146. Portuguese Maritime Empire
1. Exploring the west coast of
Africa.
2. Bartolommeo Dias, 1487 Cape
of Good Hope.
3. Vasco da Gama, 1498.
Calicut India.
4. Admiral Alfonso de Albuquerque,
Macau 1511 to Spice Islands.
Portugal takes the lead.
148. Maritime empire an with smaller pieces of land
which are separated by large bodies of water.
149. imperio marítimo:
Organización política de un estado que extiende su dominio a otros pueblos y que en
general tiene el poder centrado en un emperador. Del mar o que tiene relación con las
actividades relacionadas con él.
150. The Portuguese joined the traditional African
Trade Routes, they built forts on the coast as
trade posts.
Portugal takes the lead.
152. The gold rich Kingdom of Songhai dominated the Saharan trade routes.
153. Lands south of the Sahara had gold deposits.
Scholars estimate that by the 15th Century, they
exported 9 tons of gold annually to Europe.
154. The Songhai Empire took over the West African
trade routes trading gold, manufactured goods,
and slaves.
155. Songhai had exported conquered people as
slaves, filled the homes of Muslims everywhere.
Now, they traded humans to the Portuguese.
West Africa
Portuguese in West Africa
156. However, Songhai was not in a state to resist
the Portuges. In 1531, Princes of Songhai were
in a 20 year fight over the thrown, a Civil War.
158. The caravan trade declined as Portugese ships
took over the trade in West Africa.
159. Portuguese explorers, traders, and missionaries
made inroads into the Kongo and Benin kingdoms.
Portuguese in West Africa
160. Benin artists portray Portuguese as barbarian
slavers in their famous bronze statues.
Portuguese in West Africa
161. Bartholomew Dias sailed to the tip of
Africa(Cape of Good Hope) in 1487.
Portugal takes the lead.
162. In 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
invaded the Swahili city-states of East Africa.
Portugal takes the lead East Africa.
163. The Swahili city-states of East Africa had been thriving commercial
centers in the Indian Ocean trade.
Portugal takes the lead East Africa.
164. In 1433, the Ming explorer Admiral Zheng He had strengthened trade
relationships with Ming China and Swahili city-states of East Africa.
Portugal takes the lead East Africa.
165.
166. The Portuguese took over trade in Kilwa, Mombasa, and other city-states by sending
heavily armed ships and building fortresses. This takeover threw the region into a
devastating decline.
Portugal takes the lead East Africa.
167. The Portuguese took over trade in Kilwa, Mombasa, and other city-states by sending
heavily armed ships and building fortresses. This takeover threw the region into a
devastating decline.
Portugal takes the lead East Africa.
168. In 1498, Vasco da Gama arrived
in Calcutta.
Portugal takes the lead.
169. He filled his ships with spices.
Portugal takes the lead.
170. He returned to Portugal and made a profit of several
thousand percent!
Portugal takes the lead.
171. The Portuguese conquered Goa (India) and used it
as a major port.
Portugal takes the lead.
172. In 1510, Afonso de Albuquerque captured Goa when
Indian merchants resisted Portuguese policies.
Portugal takes the lead.
174. Admiral Alfonzo de Albuquerque claimed
Malacca, Indonesia.
Portugal takes the lead.
175. Admiral Alfonzo de Albuquerque sunk African and Muslim ships everywhere he
sailed.
Portugal takes the lead.
176. By 1514, they had reached China (Ming Dynasty).
Portugal in East Asia
177.
178. The Ming, described by some as "one of the
greatest eras of orderly government and social
stability in human history
179. Ming porcelain became prized throughout
the world, and is very valuable today.
180. The Europeans highly prized Ming
porcelain, silk, tea and spices.
181.
182. Roman Catholic missionaries followed (Dominican and Franciscan) to convert the
people to Catholicism.
Portugal in East Asia.
183. The Jesuits arrived in Macau, and attempted to win over elite Chinese society with
science.
Portugal in East Asia.
184.
185. Today Macau is the gaming center of Europe,
many LV companies have set up resorts there.
186. Matteo Ricci (1582 Italian) and Adam Schall von Bell (1619 Germany) impressed
some Chinese, yet they failed to gain many converts.
Portugal in East Asia.
187. Educated Chinese considered the Europeans barbarians, and tolerated their
presence at most.
Portugal in East Asia.
219. She completed the Reconquista, and unified Spain by
marrying Ferdinand of Aragon.
220. In 1491, she laid siege to Granada, which surrendered
at the end of the year.
221. A staunch Catholic, she supported the Pope’s view that all non RCC religions
were heresy
222. The ideas of the Renaissance were not welcomed in Spain, which remained a feudal
Roman Catholic society.
223. The Spanish converted the mosque of Cordoba into a Catholic Church, after
Muhammad XII surrendered (January 1492).
224.
225.
226. Three months later, Queen Isabella agreed to sponsor Christopher Columbus (Genoa Italy) to reach
Asia by sailing west
227. In 1453 Constantinople, the center of the Eastern Orthodox
Church, had fallen, and Russia becomes the leader of the
Greek and Russian Orthodox Christian world.
228. This ended the East
Roman or Byzantine
Empire.
The Ottomans rename
the city Istanbul.
Constantine 11th died
defending the city, but
his daughter Sophia
escaped the city.
She married Ivan the
Great of Moscow.
229. The beginning of modern warfare, gunpowder, guns
and artillery.
231. Venice takes over most of the trade routes of the small Empire in 1265
* Istambul
The Ottomans now controlled and closed
international trade to Europe.
232. Seeing what Henry the Navigator had done, Queen Isabella agreed to sponsor Christopher
Columbus (Genoa Italy) to reach Asia by sailing west
234. “Nothing that results from human progress is achieved through
unanimous consent, those that are enlightened before others are
condemned to purse that light in spite of others”
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
238. Isabella appointed Columbus governor of the “New World” in
India.
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
239. However, he treated the native populations so badly that , Isabella recalled him to Spain.
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Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
240. Although the native Americans welcomed him, Columbus
enslaved the native populations or killed them.
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
241. Columbus led expeditions against the defenseless
Indians that was incredibly savage in its slaughter of the
islanders and destruction of their villages.
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
242. The heavily armed Europeans were accompanied by
ferocious greyhounds each of which, Las Casas wrote, “in
an hour … could tear 100 Indians to pieces because all the
people of this island had the custom of going … nude from
head to foot.”
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
243. Many people were taken alive, and five hundred were sent as
slaves to be sold in Castile. They were carried in four ships that
Antonio de Torres had brought, and they left for Castile on February
24, 1495
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
244. The survivors were consigned to Juanoto Berardi,
Columbus’ Italian business agent in Seville, for sale
in the slave market there.
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
245. “The ships brought back 500 souls of Indians, men and
women all of good age from 12 to 35,” wrote Columbus’
good friend, the historian Andrés Bernáldez. “They came
thus to this land as they had been born to their own and
with no more embarrassment than if they were wild
animals, of which all were sold and this proved to be very
bad as they all died, being unfitted for the land. Thus the
island was “pacified” by favor of the Lord, proclaimed the
Roman Catholic priests.”
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
246. So, Isabella had Columbus arrested and put in jail.
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
247. Years later, Isabella released him as he was an old sick
man. In 1502, he sailed to Central America with his
nephew and died, still believing he was in India.
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
248. Portugal and Spain
Pope Julius II divided “the New World” between Spain
and Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas 1494.
249. Europeans called the Americas “the New World”. Of course the “New
World” was not really new, millions of people lived there. Natives that
converted sx
250. Natives that converted should not be enslaved, yet the
Popes continued a policy of he right to subdue and
enslave Muslims, pagans and other unbelievers. Papal
Bulls declared that to reduce pagans and other enemies of
Christ they should be put into perpetual slavery.
257. Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century, the Aztec
Empire in Mexico and the Inca Empire in South America each
included 10 million to 15 million people.
Spain Conquistadors Cortez
258. However, the spread of European diseases caused their
populations to plummet.
Spain Conquistadors Cortez
259. In Mexico, helped by groups that the Aztecs had conquered,
Cortes 's forces overthrew the Aztec by 1521 and established the
colony of New Spain.
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260. The Spaniards melted down the Aztecs' treasures
and sent the gold back home. They destroyed
Tenochtitlan and built their own capital, Mexico
City, on its ruins.
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286. Silver made its way from what is now Mexico across the Pacific Ocean to East Asia in
heavily armed Spanish galleons, making stops in the Philippines.
287. The Chinese government soon began using silver as its main form of currency. By the
early 17th century, silver had become a dominant force in the global economic system.
288. Manila became a center for international trade, Europeans exchanged silver for luxury
goods such as silk and spices, gold from China. bullion.
289. By the early 17th century, silver had become a dominant force in the global economic
system.
290. The Ming Dynasty would fall when the emperor demanded that Chinese citizens
should pay taxes in silver rather than paper money.
291. The Ming armies united with farmers, bringing the dynasty down and allowing the
Manchu or Qing Dynasty to rise (1636-1912 ).
292. Europeans soon realized that, by using enslaved Native Americans and later enslaved
Africans, they could grow wealthy by raising sugar, tobacco, and other valuable crops.
293. By 1600, Spain had established a huge maritime and land empire, others followed.
294. Isabella’s daughter Catherine married Henry VII, then Henry VIII of England. Her
grand daughter ruled Bloody Mary (1516 – 1558) ) married King Philip II of Spain.
295. Isabella’s grandson Charles V (1500-1558) would be elected Holy Roman Emperor
(Germanies) and inherit Sweden and Norway, creating one of the largest empires in
history.
296.
297. The Dutch, French, and English began to explore and claim regions in the Americas.
298. By the 1800’s, the British Empire English would replace the Portuguese Empire in India.
299. The Dutch trade empire would replace the Portuguese Empire in South East Asia
(Indonesia and Malaysia today).
300. By the 1800’s, the British and French Empires would dominate Africa.