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History of Europe. 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 ...
700 × 545 (1.34 MB) Tetriminos: modern colours: 17:20, 15 August 2011: 700 × 545 (1.1 MB) Artem Karimov: cleaned up the file. For Kosovo it is better to create a separate version of the file (to respect consistency in dealing with separatism movements: 03:22, 10 April 2011: 700 × 545 (1.57 MB) Adrignola
In European history, "post-classical" is synonymous with the medieval time or Middle Ages, the period of history from around the 5th century to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Old maps of Europe. Historic maps of Europe . This category is for historic maps showing all or part of Europe. See subcategories for smaller areas. "Historic maps" means maps made over seventy (70) years ago. Where to categorize or find maps of Europe made in the last 70 years.
e. In Europe, the Iron Age is the last stage of the prehistoric period and the first of the protohistoric periods, [ 1 ] which initially meant descriptions of a particular area by Greek and Roman writers. For much of Europe, the period came to an abrupt end after conquest by the Romans, though ironworking remained the dominant technology until ...
Eastern Hemisphere at the end of the 7th century. The 7th centuryis the period from 601through 700in accordance with the Julian calendarin the Christian Era. The spread of Islamand the Muslim conquestsbegan with the unification of Arabia by the Islamic prophet Muhammadstarting in 622. After Muhammad's death in 632, Islam expanded beyond the ...
In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby islands. The two largest peninsulas are Europe itself and Scandinavia to the north, divided from each other by the Baltic Sea. Three smaller peninsulas— Iberia, Italy, and the Balkans —emerge from the southern margin of the mainland.
'A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World'; Italian: Carta Geografica Completa di tutti i Regni del Mondo, "Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World"), printed by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci at the request by Wanli Emperor in 1602, is the first known European-styled Chinese world map (and the first Chinese map to ...