History of Europe

The history of Europe describes a current of time from the people occupying the European continent up to the present moment. The first certificate on occurrence of the Person reasonable in Europe concerns time 35 000 BC Ancient classical dates of olden time of Europe these are an Illiada of the Homere in the Ancient Greece approximately 700 BC, the Roman republic was installed in 509 BC which has been grasped by new Roman empire Oктавиана on its peak in the first century. The Christian religion has been accepted in the fourth century by Konstantin which mode established credo Nikean which became the standard Catholic form of Christianity.



Bible Vulgate in Latin has appeared just before the first campaign of Rome in the beginning of the fifth century, which beginning long division of the Western Europe in the new states with only Latin customs and Christian religion together. Divisions concerning the doctrine have appeared in Council Chalcedon in the same year (451), that Attila Hun has reached Rome. To avoid the future divisions during crisis, the Christian doctrine has been organised further in the sixth century by Emperor Justinianom I (527-565) as Pentarhy saw the power in five most important cities: Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria. Facing attacking aggressors and a plague, East and Western empires have stopped to co-operate, and the so-called Middle Ages have begun.

The Irish monks, involving the Celtic, concerning bards, tradition, same as well as Christian divinity, have slowly renewed studying of church traditions and have based the learning centres, and manufacturing of copies from the bound material, basing it is a lot of monasteries. The most part priestly hierarchies, however, continued to despise studying, books and searched for political and social influence - involving the majority of its bishops of noble feudal families. In the east the Byzantian Empire continued to exist, but the heresy within church in 1054 has led to occurrence of Crusades from the West to rescue the east from Muslim gains which have started to interfere to Byzantium. However, Crusades have not been limited by returning of the Muslim earths taken in the east: Spain, southern France, Lithuania and other "pagan" areas have been united under the papal power at this time. The feudal society has started to break, as aggressors from Mongolia have broken through boundary regions in Europe.

Difficult feudal attachments developed, and noblemen of the majority of the new nations have been very close connected by a mixed marriage. Thanking substantially to studying of knowledge, rest from Muslim and Jewish scientists in Spain and the Near East, and its own monastic traditions, Europe woke up from the medieval period before repeated opening of classical studying of Greeks and Romans and several key innovations from the Muslim world (including colleges, scientific medicine, the copyright, guilds). All given period has received the Renaissance or Revival name. After consolidation of knowledge Concerning Renaissance has started to throw down a challenge to some traditional doctrines both in a science and in divinity, Protestant Transformation has begun, as German priest Martin Luther has attacked the Papal power.



The period of time of 1492 was characterised by opening of America, its European colonisation by Christopher Columbus, Crusades on the east have simultaneously ended, and the European colonisation of the West of America has begun. A combination of inflows of resources from the New World and the Industrial revolution begun in the Great Britain, has allowed to make so, that development of new economy was based more on manufacture and trade and less on local living agriculture. At that time British Empire broke up, as its colonies in America have risen to establish representative board. Political change in continental Europe has been encouraged by the French Revolution. The following French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, has won and has transformed social structure of continent through war to 1815. As to smaller holders of the property have given voting, in France and the Great Britain, revolution has grasped Europe in 1848. Last rests of a serfdom have been cancelled in Austro-Hungary in 1848. In 1861 the Russian serfdom has been cancelled.

The Balkan nations have started to return their independence of Ottoman empire. After ex Prussian war Italy and Germany have been generated from group of princedoms in 1870 and 1871. Conflict distribution on all Globe has led to the First World War beginning. On the end of war and initial extreme poverty, the Russian Revolution promised "the world, bread and the earth", and has considerably changed a policy of the Eastern Europe, and the world, till now. Defeat of Germany was regarded at the price of the economic destruction signed in the Agreement concerning Versailles, shown in Great Depression and returning to the Second World War. With a victory of capitalism and communism over fascism the Western Europe has generated now area of free trade, divided by the former Iron Curtain of Soviet Union which has generated a complex of the communistic states. When the Berlin wall has fallen in 1989, Europe has signed the new agreement concerning the union which, on 2007, covers 27 European countries with the population more than 400 million persons.

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