Jews
make their way eastward after steady persecution in Western Europe
King Andrew II of Hungary
king whose power was severely limited by the Golden Bull of 1222
Orthodox Christianity
East and South Slavs
Poland-Lithuania
Large non-unified state joined by two crowns. Comprised of Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Bohemia.
Wladyslaw Jagiello
Duke of Lithuania
Vikings
Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia
Diet
assembly or legislature
South Slavs
people who became the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
veto
block a law
Germanic tribes
Nomadic groups that invaded the Roman Empire but also make their way into Eastern Europe
Central Europe
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia (former), Switzerland, Germany
Golden Bull of 1222
charter that strictly limited royal power in Hungary
fragmentation
the process or state of breaking or being broken into small or separate parts.
Balkan Peninsula
A large peninsula in southern Europe bounded by the Black, Aegean, and Adriatic seas.
Eastern Europe
territory between Central Europe and Russia
West Slavs
people who became Poles, Czechs, Slovaks
Magyars
Muslims who attacked Europe and converted to Christianity and established Hungary
emissary
one sent on a special mission to represent others
Mongols
invaded Hungary around 1241 and killed half of its people
Ottoman Turks
invaded Hungary in 1526 making it part of their empire
Roman Catholicism
West Slavs
Jadwiga of Poland
Queen of Poland
missionary
A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others
East Slavs
people who became the Russians, Belorussians, and Ukrainians
Serbs
An ethnic group that rose to prominence in the 1300s on the Balkan peninsula