Brief History of Europe/TOC

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