• 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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The Roman Empire was the western end of a trade network that extended across Eurasia.  With the withdrawal of Roman government, Western Europe no longer participated in this continental trade.  For more than a thousand years, Western Europe was on the periphery of world society.  During this period, this people of Western Europe developed a culture based on a mixture of Greco-Roman, Christian and Germanic elements.  

500-1000: Beginnings of Germanic Christianity 481-511: Clovis, King of the Franks. 597: Saint Augustine begins his missionary work in England. 711-715: Moslem conquest of Spain. 768-814: Reign of Charlemagne 871-899: Alfred the Great of England 936-973: Otto I (the Great) 1000-1350: Attempts at Christian Civilization 1066: The Battle of Hastings 1075-1122: The Investiture Controversy 1095-1291: The Crusading Era 1222-1242: The Mongol Invasion of Europe 1225-1274: St. Thomas Aquinas 1300-1600: Age of Reform 1305-1377: Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy 1337-1453: Hundred Years War 1347-1351: The Black Death 1378-1415: The Great Schism 1453: Fall of Constantinople 1517: Luther's 95 Theses

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