European History

A Survey of Modern European History 100px This project discovers the history of Modern Europe, starting at the Hundred Years War and ending at the present time. A chronological perspective of history is attempted within this text. Although this is the case, it is also important to understand patterns within European History, therefore chapters will attempt to cover a breadth of material even though their titles might be that of a specific pattern in history rather than a time period. 100px European History File size: 1.8 MB European History File:100%.svg Chapter 1 - A Background of European History Fall of the Roman Empire, unification of Barbarians, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, Papal power and society during the Middle Ages 60px|Constantine I, First Christian Emperor File:100%.svg Chapter 2 - The Crises of the Middle Ages Realistic art and vernacular literature, beginnings of religious reform, the Great Schism, Growth of National Monarchies, Hundred Years' War, Black Death and the Plague 60px|Dante Alighieri File:100%.svg Chapter 3 - Renaissance Europe Renaissance, Social Change, Humanism, Courtly Life, New Monarchies 60px|Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci File:100%.svg Chapter 4 - The Age of Exploration and Discovery The Age of Exploration, Portuguese and Spanish Exploration 60px|Vasco da Gama File:75%.svg Chapter 5 - Early Modern Colonialism and Commerce Columbian Exchange, Mercantilism, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Dutch East India Company 60px|Jean-Baptiste Colbert File:100%.svg Chapter 6 - Challenges to Spiritual Authority Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Other Reformers, Key Religions, Counter-Reformation 60px|Martin Luther File:100%.svg Chapter 7 - Religious Wars in Europe Warfare and Unrest from the Reformation, The Spanish Armada, The Thirty Years' War 60px|Henry IV of France File:100%.svg Chapter 8 - Absolutism in Europe Louis XIV, The War of Spanish Succession, Mercantilism, The Rise of Prussia, Stuart England, The Dutch Republic, Peter the Great of Russia 60px|Louis XIV of France File:100%.svg Chapter 9 - Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment The Age of Science, The Age of Enlightenment, Enlightened Despotism, The War of Austrian Succession, The Seven Years' War 60px|Jean-Jacques Rousseau File:100%.svg Chapter 10 - Revolution in France Precursors, The New Governments 60px|Maximilien Robespierre File:100%.svg Chapter 11 - Napoleon Bonaparte and the Rise of Nationalism The Consulate, The Empire, The Congress of Vienna, The Bourbon Restoration, A Shift in Foreign Policy, The New Nationalism 60px|Napoleon I of France File:100%.svg Chapter 12 - Age Of Revolutions The Industrial Revolution, New Economic Movements, New Political Movements, Political Revolutions, The Era of Realpolitik, Reforms in Britain 60px|British Prime Minister Robert Peel File:100%.svg Chapter 13 - European Imperialism and Nationalism German Unification, Revolt of the Paris Commune, Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Imperialism, Russia in the 1800s, Social Changes in Europe, The Crimean War, The Victorian Age 60px|Otto von Bismarck File:100%.svg Chapter 14 - World War I Precipitating Factors, The Alliances, The Schlieffen Plan, The War, The Russian Revolution 60px|Vladimir Lenin File:100%.svg Chapter 15 - Europe: 1918 to 1945 The Treaty of Versailles, German Problems, The Rise of Pacifism and Isolation in the 1920s, Challenges to Democracy in the 1930s, Fascism in Italy and Germany, The Spanish Civil War, The Outbreak of World War II 60px|Adolf Hitler File:100%.svg Chapter 16 - Europe: 1945 to Present Western Europe 1945 to Present, The European Union, The Soviet Union and Its Fall 60px|Mikhail Gorbachev File:100%.svg Glossary Definitions of terms. 60px|Joseph Stalin File:100%.svg A Brief Outline of European History An outline of key events in European History. 60px|Leonid Brezhnev File:100%.svg Authors and Contributors Participants helping to develop this text. 60px|Tony Blair File:100%.svg Bibliography A list of sources used to author this book. 60px|European Union. E European history 100% es:Historia de Europa eo:Skizo de la Historio de Eŭropo fr:Histoire de l'Europe pt:História da Europa vi:Lịch sử châu Âu bn:ইউরোপীয় ইতিহাস zh:欧洲历史