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Shaping Eastern Europe

• Chapter 9 Section 3

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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

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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)

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Christians and Muslims Influence Region

• Byzantine missionaries Eastern Orthodox
  Christianity through Balkans

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• German knights and missionaries Roman Catholic
  Christianity to
• Poland
• Hungary
• Czech
• Western Balkans

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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

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Three Early Kingdoms Develop

• Poland
• Hungary (Magyars)
• Balkan Kingdom

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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

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Hungary (Magyars)

• Roman Catholicism
• Hungarian King sings Golden Bull of 1222
• Similar to Magna Carta
• Limits royal power
• Mongols overran Hungary 1241

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Serbs in the Balkan Kingdom

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