I.            Prehistoric Europe

a.       Paleolithic Europe

b.       Mesolithic Europe

c.       Neolithic Europe

d.       Stone Age Europe

e.        Bronze Age Europe

f.        Iron Age Europe

    II.            Classical Antiquity

a.       Ancient Greece

                                                               i.      Minoans, Trojans, and Other Early Greeks

                                                             ii.      Classical Greece

                                                           iii.      Alexander the Great and Pan-Hellenism

                                                           iv.      Hellenistic Period

b.       Ancient Rome

                                                               i.      Rise of Ancient Rome

                                                             ii.      Roman Republic

                                                           iii.      Roman Empire

                                                           iv.      Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

                                                             v.      Barbarian Invasions – the Migratory Period in Europe

 III.            Middle Ages (circa 500-1500)

a.       Early Middle Ages (circa 500-1000)

                                                               i.      Late antiquity – the Dark Ages

                                                             ii.      Byzantine Empire

                                                           iii.      Feudal Christendom

1.        Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire

2.       Caliphate of Cordoba

3.       Bulgarian Empire

4.       Great Moravia

5.       Kievan Rus

b.       High Middle Ages (circa 1000-1300)

                                                               i.      East-West Schism

                                                             ii.      Norman Conquest

                                                           iii.      Crusades

                                                           iv.      Reconquista

                                                             v.      Magna Carta

                                                           vi.      Mongol Invasions

c.       Late Middle Ages (circa 1300-1500)

                                                               i.      Black Death (1348)

                                                             ii.      Endemic Warfare

1.        Jacquerie

2.       Peasants’ Revolt

3.       Hundred Years’ War

                                                           iii.      Great Schism (a.k.a. Western Schism)

                                                           iv.      Italian Renaissance

                                                             v.      Trade and Exploration

1.        Hanseatic League

2.       Marco Polo

3.       Lex Mercatoria

                                                           vi.      Rise of Nation-States

1.        Tudor Dynasty

2.       Joan of Arc

  IV.            Early Modern Europe

a.       Northern Renaissance

                                                               i.      Engravings

                                                             ii.      Humanism

b.       Protestant Reformation

c.       Age of Exploration

d.       Mercantilism

e.        Absolute Monarchy

f.        Scientific Revolution

g.       European Enlightenment

     V.            Revolution and Change

a.       Political Revolutions

                                                               i.      French Revolution

                                                             ii.      Napoleonic Era

                                                           iii.      Reactionary Period

b.       Industrial Revolution

c.       Global Nationalism

                                                               i.      Italian Unification

                                                             ii.      German Unification

                                                           iii.      Crimean War

                                                           iv.      Revolutions of 1848

d.       Imperialism

  VI.            Twentieth Century

a.       World War I

b.       Russian Revolution

c.       Great Depression

d.       Rise of Dictatorships

e.        World War II

                                                               i.      Blitzkrieg

                                                             ii.      Battle of Britain

                                                           iii.      Vichy France

                                                           iv.      Eastern Front

                                                             v.      Holocaust

f.        Cold War

                                                               i.      North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

                                                             ii.      Marshall Plan

                                                           iii.      Iron Curtain

                                                           iv.      European Economic Community

VII.            Modern Europe since the 1990s

a.       Collapse of the Soviet Union

b.       European Union

c.       Current Issues

                                                               i.      Internal Political Conflicts

1.        Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia

2.       Northern Ireland

                                                             ii.      Immigration

                                                           iii.      Environment

                                                           iv.      Economics