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CHAPTER 13HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE
SECTION 1 MEDITERRANEAN
EUROPE
GREECE IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY.
IT WAS SEPARATED INTO CITY-STATES.
WHAT IS A CITY-STATE?
IT WAS ALSO A CULTURAL HEARTH FORWESTERN EUROPE, BECAUSE OF ITSDRAMA, PHILOSOPHY, LANGUAGE,
ART, AND SCIENCE.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
AFTER GREECE LOST POWER AND INFLUENCE, DUE TO WARS AND CONQUERERS, ROME BECAME THE NEW POWER
THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT WAS A REPUBLIC IT STRETCHED FROM THE BRITISH ISLES
TO NORTHERN AFRICA AT ITS HEIGHT.
MOVING TOWARD MODERN TIMES
The Crusades began when the Muslims invaded the Holy Lands and prevented Christians from worshipping there.
A series of wars and pilgrimages had Christians from Europe passing through Italy and southern Europe on their way to Jerusalem.
This caused the Italian city-states to grow rich.
THE RENAISSANCE
THE RENAISSANCE, OR “REBIRTH,”
WAS A REVIVAL OF THE ARTS, LITERATURE AND LEARNING FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF
THE GREEKS.
IT BEGAN IN ITALY AND SPREAD THROUGHMOST OF EUROPE
BUBONIC PLAGUE, THE “BALCK DEATH”
OUTBREAKS OF THEBUBONIC PLAGUE, CARRIED BY THE FLEAS OF RATS, KILLED NEARLY ONE THIRD OF EUROPE’S POPULATIONIN SEVERAL OUTBREAKS.
SPAIN’S EMPIRES
MUSLIMS INVADED SPAIN FROM
NORTHERN AFRICA IN THE 700’S
SPAIN’S QUEEN ISABELLA AND KING FERDINAND UNITED SPAIN
AND BEGAN
SUPPORTING EXPLORATIONS TO THE
NEW WORLD IN THE LATE 1400’S
EUROPE’S CULTURE
LANGUAGES EVOLVED FROM THE ROMAN LANGUAGE , LATIN
LANGUAGES WERE CIRCULATED BY THE PUBLISHING OF RELIGIOUS WORKS
DURING THE REFORMATION, THE
FORMATION OF THE PROTESTANT
CHURCHES, SUCH AS THE LUTHERAN, METHODIST, ANGLICAN, AND OTHERS
ART
ART FLOURISHEDIN ITALY, FRANCE,
AND THE NETHERLANDS
THE ROMAN CONSTRUCTIONS
LIKE THEAQUEDUCTS AND
PANTHEONREMAIN AS RUINS
TODAY
THE PANTHEON IN ROME
BY DUTCH PAINTERVERMEER
THE PIETABY
MICHANGELO
A ROMAN AQUEDUCT
ECONOMICS
THROUGH THE YEARS, EUROPE HAS MOVED FROM AGRICULTURE TO INDUSTRY
THE EUROPEAN UNION, FORMED IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY
– INCREASED MANUFACTURING– STANDARDIZED THE MONEY SYSTEM
WITH THE EURO– INCREASED TRADE WITHIN THE
CONTINENT