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The Land of Europe Middle Ages Renaissance The Reformation. Europe is the second-smallest continent with 4,063,000 square miles of land. 47 countries Russia largest, most in Asia, 6.6 million square mile Vatican City smallest country/fraction of a square mile. Over 200 languages
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The Land of Europe Middle Ages Renaissance The Reformation
Europe is the second-smallest continent with 4,063,000 square miles of land. 47 countries Russia largest, most in Asia, 6.6 million square mile Vatican City smallest country/fraction of a square mile. Over 200 languages World’s largest landmass, Europe and Asia called Eurasia.
Label: Seas Fjords Rivers Mountains North European Plain
Middle Age Castles http://myreadingmapped.blogspot.com/2011/09/interactive-map-of-my-favorite-classic.html
Charles the Great Or Charlemagne
Vikings: Believed in many Gods. (Sea Pirates) Thor Odin
William the Conqueror: 1066 AD defeated the Saxon king of England and establishes a strong government.
The Medieval World Feudalism fiefs
Serfs Knights Vassals
Eleanor of Aquitaine Chivalry
King John of England in 1215 Signing the Magna Carta
Monasteries, Monks, Nuns Hildegard of Bingen/ Saint 1098-1179
Urban II Crusades Wars between the Muslims and Christians.
Chartres Cathedral France
Plague or Black Death One third of western European population wiped out in the next 130 years.
Petrarch/Poet 1304-1374 Lorenzo Medici Patron 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527/writer of The Prince Christine de Pisan 1364/Venice/writer
Leonardo da Vinci He painted the Mona Lisa.
David Michelangelo/ painter, sculpture/ ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Six wives Henry VIII
Elizabeth I 1533-1603 Elizabeth II 1926