European History by Letter - M

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The attack of their hordes in 1240 spread panic in Europe

She didn’t really say “Let them eat cake”

This Sicilian term is now used for criminal organizations all over the world

Extremely influential socialist philosopher and economist (Karl)

These muslims occupied (and brought a rich culture to) the Iberian peninsula

Turbulent era in European history with Germanic, Slavic and Turkic tribes finding new places to settle

Simply THE renaissance family

First advanced culture in Europe, possibly destroyed by the eruption of the same name

The world’s first industrial city

These brothers taught mankind to fly

This 19th century Silesian biologist is considered the founder of genetics (Gregor)

Ugric people possibly from the Ural region migrating to present-day Hungary in the 9th century

American reconstruction plan for Europe after WWII

Famous composer of the Classical period in Vienna and child prodigy (“Magic Flute”, “Don Giovanni”)

First Frankish dynasty, sometimes linked with the legend of the Holy Grail in popular fiction

Marched on Rome with his blackshirts in 1923 and installed fascism (Benito)

Battle site of the antiquity allegedly 42.195 km from Athens

Soldiers with early forms of rifles used between the 16th and 19th century, made famous by an Alexandre Dumas novel featuring D’Artagnan

This medieval term for borderland lives on in the name of many European regions, among them a country in Scandinavia

A building for monks, Saint Athanasius in Bulgaria is considered the first of its kind on European territory