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European History by Letter - M

Are you a true expert of Europe's historical figures and locations?

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Last updated: July 23, 2022
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The attack of their hordes in 1240 spread panic in Europe
Mongols
She didn’t really say “Let them eat cake”
Marie Antoinette
This Sicilian term is now used for criminal organizations all over the world
Mafia
Extremely influential socialist philosopher and economist (Karl)
Marx
These muslims occupied (and brought a rich culture to) the Iberian peninsula
Moors
Turbulent era in European history with Germanic, Slavic and Turkic tribes finding new places to settle
Migration period
Simply THE renaissance family
Medici
First advanced culture in Europe, possibly destroyed by the eruption of the same name
Minoan
The world’s first industrial city
Manchester
These brothers taught mankind to fly
Montgolfière
This 19th century Silesian biologist is considered the founder of genetics (Gregor)
Mendel
Ugric people possibly from the Ural region migrating to present-day Hungary in the 9th century
Magyars
American reconstruction plan for Europe after WWII
Marshall Plan
Famous composer of the Classical period in Vienna and child prodigy (“Magic Flute”, “Don Giovanni”)
Mozart
First Frankish dynasty, sometimes linked with the legend of the Holy Grail in popular fiction
Merovingians
Marched on Rome with his blackshirts in 1923 and installed fascism (Benito)
Mussolini
Battle site of the antiquity allegedly 42.195 km from Athens
Marathon
Soldiers with early forms of rifles used between the 16th and 19th century, made famous by an Alexandre Dumas novel featuring D’Artagnan
Musketeers
This medieval term for borderland lives on in the name of many European regions, among them a country in Scandinavia
March/Mark
A building for monks, Saint Athanasius in Bulgaria is considered the first of its kind on European territory
Monastery
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