Europe+history

The history of Europe includes many events. After Greece, the Roman Empire established and controlled half of Europe for a long time. However,the Roman Empire gradually weakened after three centuries when the Nordic Germans and Slavs in Eastern Europe have been rising.Up to 476 B.C,they beat the Roman Empire and Western Europe went into the Middle Ages. From the 15th century, capitalism began to grow in Southern and Western Europe, especially Spain, Portugal, and England which brought the Europe history into a new stage. Through geographical discovery and adventure overseas, toured Africa, the Americas and Asia, the Netherlands also dominated trade in the moment.Because of the lack of further development, Spain and Portugal decided to make the UK the first step to obtain a better chance to get the further development of capitalism. After the British defeated the Spanish navy,a large number of sophisticated culture, known as the Renaissance began in Europe, which led to the revolution of religion and culture occoured during the same period. Many countries change from the jurisdiction of the Catholic Church to the belief in Protestant; sectarian politics and religion in different countries often triggered by political struggles.There are many religious war occoured in Western Europe because of the political and religious troubles of the occasion. Started of 17th century, British political Glorious Revolution took place and the British started the Industrial Revolutionduring during the 18th century.Then affected the European continent, but also promoted the rise of nation-state, the North American British colonies from the thirteen states stated of an independent state. For the French continental the French Revolution and Napoleon proclaimed emperor.Germany, Italy, completed in the 19th century uniform, with advances in technology, continue to explore the outside world and put forward the theory of evolution, Europe became the cradle of imperialism, put down wins the world's resources .In the early 20th century, imperialist expansion eventually led to the extreme of war in Europe, the occurrence of two World Wars suffered Europe a lot. World War is between European countries and World War II, in addition to China, Japan and the U.S,the main battlefield is in Europe. In the meantime, there has been the world's first socialist state - the Soviet Union founded. After World War II, under the influence of the Soviet Union, there were a number of socialist countries. Beginning in the 1950s,US and the Soviet Union against each other because of the different parties.Europe is divided into two major political and economic camps: communism in Eastern European and capitalism in Western Europe until around 1990.With the Soviet Union, Cold War, and Europe’s political landscape has undergone major changes in the Europe history.