Transcript Shaping Eastern Europe

Shaping Eastern Europe
Chapter 9 Section 3
Geography Shapes Eastern
Europe
• Balkan Peninsula
– Mountains region
– Triangular land
extending to
Mediterranean
• Danube River and
Vistula River
– Goods and cultural
influences traveled
these rivers
Migration Contributes to Diversity
• Ethnic Group
– Group of people who share same language
and cultural heritage
• Slavs
• West Slavs (present day Poland)
• South Slavs (Balkans)
Christians and Muslims Influence
Region
• Byzantine missionaries:
Eastern Orthodox
Christianity through
Balkans
• German knights and
missionaries: Roman Catholic
Christianity to:
– Poland
– Hungary
– Czech
– Western Balkans
Jewish expulsions and migrations
• England, France, and Spain expelled Jews
because:
– Black death
– Crusades
• 1262 Prince Boleslaw of Cracow protects
Jews
– Polish toleration for 500 years
Three Early Kingdoms Develop
• Poland
• Hungary (Magyars)
• Balkan Kingdom
Poland
• Roman Catholicism
• Queen Jadwiga and Duke Wladyslaw
married 1368
• Poland-Lithuania largest in Europe
– Political power: monarchs to nobles
• Diet: assembly
– Single noble vote block passage of laws
Hungary (Magyars)
• Roman Catholicism
• Hungarian King sings:
Golden Bull of 1222
– Similar to Magna Carta
– Limits royal power
• Mongols overran Hungary
1241
Serbs in the Balkan Kingdom
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Orthodox Christianity
Stefan Dusan (king)
Ottoman Turks overran in 1389
Culture similar to Byzantine Empire