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Period: 500 to 1500
The Middle Ages (Dark Ages)
The period of European history extending from about 500 to 1400–1500 ce is traditionally known as the Middle Ages.
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Period: 1095 to 1291
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The most commonly known Crusades are the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
The Renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.
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Period: 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
The Reformation, also referred to as the Protestant Reformation, was a schism from the Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther and continued by John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other early Protestant Reformers in 16th-century Europe.
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The Age of Enlightenment
European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment.
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Industrial Revoultion
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire.
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World War 1
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War 2
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
as the Cold War began to cross Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relationship with the West. Starting at midnight that day he said citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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Collapse of the Soveit Union
The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, after replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
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Creation of the European Union
The European Union (EU) was created by the Maastricht Treaty. It is a political and economic union between European countries which makes its own policies concerning the members' economies, societies, laws and to some extent security.
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Fall of the roman empire
In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.
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