One characteristic was how society was controlled by a ruling elite of powerful clans.
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy; Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Charlemagne became king of the Frankish people in the year 751. He had the main belief of unifying all Germanic peoples and convert them to Christianity. Other important beliefs he had were the revival of culture and education which had been relegated during the dark ages. Thanks to these beliefs, Charlemagne got to control a large part of Europe. They are important for a ruler since promoting education within it citizens helps the development of a society. The firm belief he had in uniting all peoples is represented in many rulers that followed him like Napoleon; it is an important principle to consolidate a government and peace in a territory. Another example that he set for future leaders is the ability to make strategic alliances, the one he made with the Catholic Church eventually turn him into the holy roman emperor.
Answer: 1) adoption of Catholic Christianity and leaving behind pagan cults in early Middle Ages, 2) Renaissance and Reformation, 3)integration of ancient wisdom of Greece and Roman to philosophy, 4) persecution of Jews, expulsion of Arabs from Europe, Greeks coming to Europe (after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453), 5) discovery and colonization of the New World and other parts of the Globe, 6) so-called Modernity with its scientific revolution in the 17th centurry, 7) Enlightenment with its various (political and scientific) including constitutionalism, 8) romanticism with its significant consequences in arts, philosophy and medicine (psychology), 9) Darwinism and social darwinism in the context of industrial revolution, 10) secularization of European societies, 11) both World Wars, 12) Cold War, 13)decolonization, 14) post-1990 information revolution and globalization of everyday life.
Explanation: globalization of European society started already in the renaissance and continued later on as well. I am excluding Russia from this development because Russia started (just in a very limited way) participating in European development at the beginning of the 18th century.
