Brief History of Europe

A Brief History of Europe is a free content online book published on English Wikibooks.

A Brief History of Europe

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Table of contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1 Classical antiquity and the rise of Islam
  • Classical antiquity
  • Late antiquity
  • Islam and the Islamic Golden Age
  • Early fragmentation of the Islamic world

• Part 1 Middle Ages

• Chapter 2 Early Middle Ages
  • Peoples of the Early Middle Ages
  • Turkic migration and Viking Age
  • Italian Peninsula in the Middle Ages
  • Francia and the Carolingian Empire
  • Europe from 814
  • Reconquista, and unification of Spain

• Chapter 3 High Middle Ages
  • States and territories of the High Middle Ages
  • France and England
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Christianity and the Great Schism
  • Islam and the Crusades
  • Mongol invasions
  • Medieval renaissances and cultural changes

• Chapter 4 Late Middle Ages
  • States and territories of the Late Middle Ages
  • Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
  • Avignon Papacy and Western Schism
  • Hundred Years' War
  • Burgundian State
  • War of the Roses
  • Holy Roman Empire and Hanseatic League
  • Rise of Muscovy
  • Rise of the Ottoman Empire

• Part 2 Modern period

• Chapter 5 Early modern period part 1
  • States and territories of the early modern period
  • Rise of Austria and Brandenburg-Prussia
  • Houses of Habsburg and Habsburg-Lorraine
  • Dutch Golden Age
  • Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia
  • House of Bourbon and France
  • Rise of Russia

• Chapter 6 Early modern period part 2
  • Age of Discovery and colonial empires
  • Reformation and religious turmoil
  • Thirty Years' War
  • Religious tensions in England and Scotland
  • Rise of philosophy, the arts, science and trade

• Chapter 7 Late modern period until 1914
  • States and territories of the late modern period
  • Late eighteenth century
  • Napoleonic Era
  • Post-Napoleonic Europe
  • New Imperialism
  • Industrialization and cultural changes

• Chapter 8 Europe since 1914
  • World War I
  • Eastern Question
  • Interwar Period
  • World War II
  • Cold War
  • Yugoslav Wars
  • Other aspects of the contemporary period