HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - East-Central Europe, Drang Nach Osten, Mitteleuropa
Document Summary
Balkanization refers to the division of countries. ~ comes from the late 19th century when the ottoman empire was trying to deal with all of these different ethnic groups. East central europe is divided into four tiers: poland, czech republic, and hungary most western, baltic (lithuania, latvia, and estonia) only appear after wwi, belarus and the ukraine (the little russians , the balkans. Carpathian mountains create a natural division. Contemporary poland, belarus, the ukraine are known as the bread basket of europe as the land is very fertile. ~ has allowed for many armies to pass through (teutonic knights, mongols, Christianization happened in the 9th century in the moravian region. ~ gave larger centralized centres of government to this region. Central europe = ostsiedlung, mitteleuropa, drang nach osten, lebesraum. Ostsiedlung refers to historical colonization of this region by the germans (the teutonic knights moving into the baltic region)
