Brief History of Europe

A Brief History of Europe

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Chapter 1 Early Middle Ages
- Peoples of the Early Middle Ages
  - Germanic peoples
  - Non-Germanic peoples
- Roman Empire and movements of peoples
  - Migration Period and other migrations
  - Byzantine Empire
- Italian peninsula in the Early Middle Ages
- Francia and the Carolingian Empire
- Europe from 814
- Islam and the Caliphates
  - Islamic Golden Age
  - Islam during the ninth and tenth centuries
- Reconquista
  - Iberia during the High Middle Ages
  - Iberia during the Late Middle Ages

Chapter 2 High Middle Ages
- States and territories of the High Middle Ages
- Normans
- England and the Angevin Empire
- Holy Roman Empire
- Christianity and the Great Schism
- Islam, Crusades, and Mongol invasions
  - Crusades and crusaders
  - Crusades to the Holy Land and Latin Empire
  - Mongol Empire
  - End of the Islamic Golden Age
  - Golden Horde
- Medieval renaissances and cultural changes

Chapter 3 Late Middle Ages
- States and territories of the Late Middle Ages
- Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
- France
  - Burgundian State
  - Avignon Papacy
  - Western Schism
- Hundred Years' War
  - Edwardian War (1337–1360)
  - Caroline War (1369–1389)
  - Lancastrian War (1415–1453)
- War of the Roses
- Holy Roman Empire and Hanseatic League
- Rise of Muscovy
- Rise of the Ottoman Empire

Chapter 4 Early modern period
- States and territories of the early modern period
- Russia, Sweden, and Poland
  - Russian Tsardom and Empire
  - Sweden and the Northern Wars
  - Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Decline of the Holy Roman Empire
- House of Hohenzollern
  - Brandenburg-Prussia and Frederick the Great
- Houses of Habsburg and Habsburg-Lorraine
  - Austrian Monarchy
  - Holy Roman Emperors during the modern period
  - Ottoman–Habsburg wars and Suleiman the Magnificent
  - Habsburg Spain
  - Italian Wars and Eighty Years' War
- House of Bourbon and France
  - Bourbon Spain
- Reformation and religious turmoil
  - Protestant Reformation and earlier movements
  - English Reformation and religious tensions
  - Counter-Reformation
  - European wars of religion
  - Thirty Years' War
- Age of Discovery and colonial empires
- Rise of philosophy, the arts, science and trade
  - The Renaissance
  - Baroque Period and Age of Enlightenment
  - Capitalism and mercantilism

Chapter 5 Late modern period
- States and territories of the late modern period
- Age of Revolution and late eighteenth century
  - Seven Years' War, and French and Indian War
  - American Revolution
  - Partitions of Poland
  - French Revolution
  - French Revolutionary Wars
- Napoleonic Era
  - Napoleonic Wars
- Post-Napoleonic Europe
  - Post-Napoleonic France
  - Revolutions of 1848
  - Spain during the late modern period
  - Crimean War
  - Risorgimento
  - German Empire
  - Austria-Hungary
- New Imperialism
  - Decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire
- World War I and the interwar period
  - Prelude to World War I
  - World War I
  - Interwar period
  - Russian revolutions and Soviet Union
- World War II
- Industrialization and cultural changes
  - Arts of the late modern period

Chapter 6 Contemporary period
- Cold War
  - Fall of communism
- Yugoslav Wars
- Other aspects of the contemporary period

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