Shaping Eastern Europe Chapter 9 Section 3 Geography

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 • • Orthodox Christianity Stefan Dusan (king) Ottoman Turks overran in 1389 Culture similar to Byzantine Empire