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| Introduction |
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1 Aegean Dawn -- The Glory of Greece: 2500--300 BC |
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Crete -- Troy -- Athens --Pericles -- Alexander the Great |
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2 The Ascendancy of Rome: 500 BC--AD 300 |
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Roman Republic -- Punic Wars -- Julius Caesar -- Augustus -- St Paul -- The Antonines -- Diocletian |
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3 Goths, Huns and Christians: 300--560 |
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Constantine -- Christendom -- Theodosius -- Alaric the Goth -- Sack of Rome -- Attila the Hun -- Clovis and Theodoric -- Justinian |
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4 The Age of Charlemagne: 560--840 |
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Gregory the Great -- Mohammad and Umayyad Invasion -- Charles Martel -- Charlemagne -- Verdun |
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5 The New Europeans: 840--1100 |
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Vikings -- Magyars and Otto the Great -- Cnut -- The Great Schism -- William the Conqueror -- Investiture Conflict -- Humiliation of Henry IV |
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6 The Church Militant: 1100--1215 |
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First Crusade -- Second Crusade -- Becket and Henry II -- Barbarossa -- Third and Fourth Crusades -- Innocent III -- Fourth Lateran Council -- Magna Carta |
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7 The Rise of States: 1215--1400 |
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Frederick II -- The Golden Horde -- Henry III and de Montfort -- Hundred Years War -- Black Death -- Western Schism -- Wycliffe and Hus |
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8 The Death of Byzantium: 1400--1500 |
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Sigismund and Constance -- End of Western Schism -- Pope Nicholas -- Fall of Constantinople -- Ivan the Great |
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9 Renaissance and Reformation: 1450-1525 |
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Gutenberg -- Henry the Navigator -- Isabella and Ferdinand -- Columbus -- Savonarola -- The Borgias -- Maximilian -- Luther |
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10 Wars of the Princes: 1525--1560 |
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Henry VIII -- Francis I -- Charles V -- Suleiman the Magnificent -- Counter-Reformation -- Ignatius Loyola -- Council of Trent --- Peace of Augsburg -- Accession of Philip II |
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11 Wars of Religion: 1560--1660 |
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Catherine de' Medici -- Lepanto -- St Bartholomew's Day Massacre -- Armada -- Henry IV of France -- Thirty Years War -- Peace of Westphalia -- Cromwell |
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12 The Climax of Autocracy: 1660--1715 |
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Louis XIV- William of Orange -- Glorious Revolution -- War of Spanish Succession -- Marlborough -- Treaty of Utrecht -- Charles of Sweden -- Peter the Great |
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13 From Reason to Rebellion: 1715--1789 |
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War of Austrian Succession -- Maria Theresa -- Frederick the Great -- Catherine the Great -- Seven Years War -- William Pitt -- American War of Independence |
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14 The French Revolution: 1789--1804 |
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Bastille -- Girondins and Jacobins -- Robespierre's Terror -- Directory -- Napoleon Emperor |
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15 Napoleon's Europe: 1804--1815 |
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Trafalgar -- Austerlitz -- End of Holy Roman Empire -- Peninsular War -- Napoleon in Moscow -- Battle of Leipzig |
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16 Vienna and the Failure of Reform: 1815--1840 |
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Congress of Vienna -- Waterloo -- Greece -- 1830 Revolutions -- Louis Philippe -- Reform British Style |
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17 The Old Order's Last Cry: 1840--1850 |
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Hegel and Marx -- 1848, the Year of Revolutions -- Napoleon III -- Great Exhibition -- Russia's Empire -- Crimean War |
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18 Italy and Germany: 1850--1900 |
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Cavour and Garibaldi -- Unification of Italy -- Rise of Bismarck -- Austro-Prussian War -- Franco-Prussian War -- Congress of Berlin -- Allocation of Empires -- Fall of Bismarck -- Fin de Siecle |
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19 The War to End War: 1900--1918 |
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Entente Cordiale -- Balkan Uprising -- Murder in Sarajevo -- The Marne and the Trenches -- Russian Revolution -- Brest-Litovsk -- America at War -- Armistice -- Treaty of Versailles |
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20 The Years in Between: 1918--1939 |
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Reparations and Revenge -- Locarno -- Great Depression -- Rise of Hitler -- Munich -- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact |
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21 The Second World War: 1939--1945 |
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Fall of France -- Churchill -- Battle of Britain -- Barbarossa -- Pearl Harbor -- Holocaust -- Stalingrad -- D-Day -- Yalta -- Defeat of Germany and Japan |
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22 Cold War Continent: 1945--1989 |
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Reconstruction -- Cold War -- European Union -- Khrushchev and Detente -- Second Cold War -- Gorbachev -- Collapse of Soviet Union |
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23 Strains Past and Present: 1989-- |
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A New Russia -- Balkan Wars -- NATO Expands -- Ever Closer Union -- Rise of Putin -- Crisis of 2008 -- Disunited Europe |
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A Timeline of European History |
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307 | (6) |
| Author's Note |
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313 | (2) |
| Further Reading |
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| Index |
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