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The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
The Cambridge Medieval History; Capitulary of Servais; Columbian exchange; Commercial revolution; List of conflicts in Europe; Constantinople Conference; Coronations in Europe; Crisis situations and unrest in Europe since 2000
History of the Republic of Venice by period (4 C) Pages in category "History of Europe by period" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which the Western world (i.e. Western Europe and the parts of the New World where its people became the dominant populations) overcame pre-modern growth constraints and emerged during the 19th century as the most powerful and wealthy world civilizations, eclipsing previously ...
About 19% of European Christians were part of the Protestant tradition. [95] Russia is the largest Christian country in Europe by population, followed by Germany and Italy. [95] In 2012 Europe constituted in absolute terms the world's largest Christian population. [96] Historically, Europe has been the center and cradle of Christian civilization.
Prehistoric Europe refers to Europe before the start of written records, [3] beginning in the Lower Paleolithic. As history progresses, considerable regional unevenness in cultural development emerges and grows.
The Hanseatic League [a] was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...
In his "Introduction to the History of the Middle Ages in Europe", Mitre Fernández wrote in 2004: "To talk about a general crisis of the late Middle Ages is already a commonplace in the study of medieval history." [3] Heribert Müller, in his 2012 book on the religious crisis of the late Middle Ages, discussed whether the term itself was in ...