• Early Europe
• Celtic Europe
• Germanic Migrations

• Germanic Christianity
• Christian Civilization
• The Age of Reform

The Center Period

• Voyages of Exploration
• The Rise of States
• The Enlightenment
• The Age of Nation-States

The Global Period

• Age of World Wars
• After the Cold War

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While the peoples of the Mediterranean Basin developed sophisticated urban societies, the peoples of Western Europe were agriculturalists throughout the Ancient Period.  However, warfare, trade and migration brought Western Europe and the Mediterranean Basin together.  The Romans incorporated much of Western Europe into its empire and  from this a new society developed that included elements of Greco-Roman, Christian and Germanic culture.

Early Europe: Before 2,000 BC Europeans as Foraging Peoples: 1,000,000 - 5,000 BC 50,000-60,000 BC: Europe is inhabited by Neanderthals 35,000-10,000 BC: Paleolithic Art Europeans as Agricultural Peoples: 5,000 - 2,000 BC 4,500 BC: Neolithic Revolution in Western and Central Europe 3,500 BC: Indo-European Migration Celtic Europe: 1850 BC- AD 400 1850 BC: Celto-Ligurian culture 390 BC: Celts sack Rome and enter history as "Gauls." The Germanic Migrations in Western Europe: AD 300-500 378: Battle of Adrianople 410: Rome is sacked by the Visigoths 476: Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor in the West is deposed.

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