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1. Verfasser:	Lang, Sean 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Chichester [u.a.] Wiley 2006
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Europe / History Europe / Biography Europa (geografie) Europa Europe > Biography Europe > History Biografie
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Beschreibung:	Includes index. - Includes cheat sheet with map and key dates in European history (before t.p.)
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ISBN:	0764570609 9780764570605

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adam_text	Contents at a Glance ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Introduction ................................................................. 1 Parti: Origins of a Continent.. .......................................7 Chapter 1: Not So Much a Continent As a View of Life ..................................................9 Chapter 2: The Stone Age Rocks ....................................................................................21 Part 11: Europe of the Ancients. ....................................33 Chapter 3: You re Ancient History! .................................................................................35 Chapter 4: The Ups and Downs of the Roman Empire ................................................51 Part HI: Middle Ages ..................................................65 Chapter 5: Dancing in the Dark Ages .............................................................................67 Chapter 6: Gold, Murder, and Frankish Sense ...............................................................81 Chapter 7: Knock, Knock, Knocking Heads at Heaven s Door ....................................97 Chapter 8: Don t Call Us Medieval! ...............................................................................113 Part IV: Aleut Ideas, New Worlds.. ..............................127 Chapter 9: Back to the Future: The Renaissance .......................................................129 Chapter 10: Reformation Ruckus ..................................................................................143 Chapter 11: Mass and Massacre: The Wars of Religion .............................................157 Chapter 12: Tsar Wars ....................................................................................................171 Chapter 13: Absolute Power: The Sun King Rises ......................................................185 Part V: Europe Rules the World ..................................199 Chapter 14: The (Almost) Irresistible Rise of France and Russia ............................201 Chapter 15: Seeking Enlightenment .............................................................................215 Chapter 16: France Catches a Cold - and We re All Still Sneezing ...........................229 Chapter 17: Grime Wave: Europe Gets Industrial .......................................................243 Chapter 18: Building Nations ........................................................................................257 Part VI: Europe tears Itself in two. ............................271 Chapter 19: Europe s Age of Empire ............................................................................273 Chapter 20: The War to End All Wars - Doesn t .........................................................287 Chapter 21: Revolution in Russia .................................................................................301 Chapter 22: Europe Goes to Extremes .........................................................................315 Chapter 23: World War to Cold War .............................................................................329 Chapter 24: Eurovision..................................................................................................343 Part VU: The Part of Tern ..........................................357 Chapter 25: Ten Europeans Who Dominated the Continent .....................................359 Chapter 26: Ten Days That Shook Europe - and the World ......................................365 Chapter 27: Ten Places (apart from Naples) to See Before You Die .........................371 Chapter 28: Ten Things Europe (and the World) Could Have Done Without .........377 Ыек .......................................................................383 Table of Contents ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Introduction .................................................................. 1 About This Book ...............................................................................................1 Conventions Used in This Book .....................................................................2 Foolish Assumptions .......................................................................................2 How This Book is Organised ...........................................................................3 Part I: Origins of a Continent ................................................................3 Part II: Europe of the Ancients ..............................................................3 Part III: Middle Ages ...............................................................................3 Part IV: New Ideas, New Worlds ............................................................4 Part V: Europe Rules the World ............................................................4 Part VI: Europe Tears Itself in Two .......................................................4 Part VII: The Part of Tens ......................................................................4 Icons Used in This Book ..................................................................................5 Where to Go from Here ....................................................................................5 Parti: Origins of a Continent .........................................7 Chapter 1: Not So Much a Continent As a View of Life .............9 Where Is Europe? .............................................................................................9 How Many Europés? ......................................................................................10 A Christian Europe? .............................................................................10 A royal Europe? .....................................................................................11 A democratic Europe? ..........................................................................12 Is There Such a Thing as European Civilisation? .......................................13 Why Does Europe Have So Many Languages? ............................................13 Is There a European Culture? .......................................................................14 What of Europe Lies beyond Europe? .........................................................15 From the Holy Land ..............................................................................15 Back to Africa ........................................................................................16 To a new world .....................................................................................16 Europeans transported ........................................................................17 Divided Europe or United Europe? ..............................................................17 Long division .........................................................................................17 Europe united? ......................................................................................18 This Must Never Happen Again! ...................................................................19 Chapter 2: The Stone Age Rocks ................................21 Three Stone Ages for the Price of One ........................................................21 Rummaging Through the Dustbins of History ............................................22 Is there a palaeobotanist in the house? .............................................23 Learning from the neighbours ............................................................24 European History For Dummies Out of Africa ... We Think ............................................................................24 The First Europeans .......................................................................................25 The Beagle has landed .........................................................................25 The painting s on the wall ...................................................................26 Go easy on the ice ................................................................................27 Down on the (Stone Age) Farm ....................................................................27 The first cities .......................................................................................28 The farmers of Greece .........................................................................28 You say you want a (Neolithic) revolution ........................................29 Meet the Flint Stones .....................................................................................29 Tombs and what they tell us ...............................................................30 Standing stones (and some that have fallen over) ..........................30 Mining Metal ...................................................................................................31 Partii: Europe of the Ancients.., ..................................33 Chapter 3: You re Ancient History! ..............................35 Greece Is the Word .........................................................................................35 An Englishman on Crete ......................................................................35 New kids on the block: the Mycenaeans ...........................................36 Decline and fall ... and rise ................................................................39 Living in a Polis State .....................................................................................40 Hmm ... it s not that democratic, is it? .............................................40 Greek geeks ...........................................................................................41 Squaring Up to the Persians .........................................................................43 Here they come! ....................................................................................43 Here they come again! ..........................................................................43 My Big Fat Greek Civil War ............................................................................43 Macedonia and Alexander the Great ...........................................................45 What a Way to Run a (Roman) Republic! ....................................................46 A revolution and a (not very democratic) republic .........................46 Conquering the neighbours ................................................................47 The Phoenicians - Coming to a Coastline Near You ..................................48 Ain t room for both of us: Rome versus Carthage ...........................48 Here comes Hannibal ...........................................................................48 The Senate and (rather grumpy) people of Rome ...........................49 Chapter 4: The Ups and Downs of the Roman Empire ..............51 War, Seduction, Murder, and War Again: The New Roman Empire ..........51 The Emperor s New (Purple) Clothes ..........................................................53 You Probably Wouldn t Want to Be an Emperor ........................................55 Two (crowned) heads are better than one - we hope .....................56 Emperor or god? ...................................................................................57 Table of Contents Getting an Empire ...........................................................................................57 The fall of Gaul ......................................................................................59 Rebel rebel ............................................................................................59 Rocking all over the (Roman) world ..................................................60 The Roman Peace .................................................................................60 A Civilised People - Give or Take the Odd Gladiatorial Combat .............61 Roman social climbing .........................................................................61 Daddy knows best ................................................................................62 Cool, clear water ...................................................................................62 Follow the military road ......................................................................62 Bread and circuses ...............................................................................62 The Beginning of the End of Empire ............................................................63 Part 111: Middle Ayes ...................................................65 Chapter 5: Dancing in the Dark Ages ............................67 Meet Constantine ...........................................................................................67 Changing My Religion ....................................................................................68 That s a Very Interesting Question, Arius ...................................................69 And Lo, There Came Invaders from the East ..............................................70 Can we come and stay? The Visigoths ..............................................71 Uh-oh: Here come the Huns ................................................................72 The Vandals go clubbing (in the Mediterranean) ............................73 How the West Was Won .................................................................................74 Your mission, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, should you choose to accept it ....................................................74 Second-class (Roman) citizens ...........................................................76 Yet More Barbarian Raiders ..........................................................................76 The (Eastern) Empire Strikes Back ..............................................................77 Let s Be Frank .................................................................................................79 The Incredible Rise of Islam .........................................................................79 Chapter 6: Gold, Murder, and Frankish Sense ....................81 Let s Get this Church on the Road ...............................................................81 Crisis in the East .............................................................................................82 The emperors strike back ...................................................................82 Icons and politics .................................................................................83 Don t Live Like an Egyptian: Christianity in the West ...............................83 Monks, monasteries, and more ..........................................................84 Gregory the Great .................................................................................85 Who You Gonna Call? The Franks! ...............................................................86 With love from me (via St Peter) to you ............................................86 You scratch my back, Your Holiness, and I ll scratch yours ...........87 Holy Doctrinal Difference, Batman! ..............................................................91 European History For Dummies Axes of Evil: Enter the Vikings ......................................................................92 Purveyors of luxury goods, wholesale pillagers by appointment ....92 Hey, guys! We can trash places in the East as well! ..........................93 Norman conquests ...............................................................................94 Chapter 7: Knock, Knock, Knocking Heads at Heaven s Door .......97 I m the King of the Germans .........................................................................97 Three guys called Otto ........................................................................97 Heavyweight championship of the world: Pope versus Emperor .......................................................................98 lam an antipope ...................................................................................99 The Pope s new friends .......................................................................99 Gregory versus Henry: The Investiture Contest ..............................99 Russia Gets Religion ....................................................................................101 Turkish Delight .............................................................................................101 The Crusades ................................................................................................102 1095: The People s Crusade ..............................................................102 1095-1099: First Crusade ...................................................................103 1146: Second Crusade ........................................................................103 1190-1192: Third Crusade .................................................................104 1199-1204: Fourth Crusade ...............................................................104 Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Crusades .....................................105 Playing Crusades at Home ..........................................................................106 Too Much Power to the Pope .....................................................................107 The German Emperors Fancy Ruling Somewhere Warm ........................108 Vespers in Sicily ............................................................................................108 Just Who s in Charge in France? .................................................................109 A Sunset in the East: The Ottoman Turks .................................................110 Chapter 8: Don t Call Us Medieval! ............................113 Why the Term Middle Ages ? .....................................................................113 We re All Doomed! Religion .........................................................................114 Amazing grace .....................................................................................114 Pilgrims progress ................................................................................115 A monastic life for me! .......................................................................115 University Challenge ....................................................................................117 Scholarly inquiry ................................................................................118 Corpus Christi Carnival .....................................................................119 The Great Cathedrals ...................................................................................120 Castles, Chivalry, and Knights ....................................................................121 Knights in shining armour .................................................................121 Is this a war? No, it s the regional semi-final ...................................122 Coming up next - jousting from Hicksted .......................................123 Don t ring us, Sir Knight, we ll ring you ...........................................123 Heraldry ...............................................................................................124 Managing Money-The Medieval Way ......................................................125 The Black Death ..................................................................................125 Table of Contents Part W: New Ueas, Nevi Wortds ................................. 127 Chapter 9: Back to the Future: The Renaissance .................129 Small City States - Beautiful but Very Vulnerable ...................................129 Forty Years of Peace : The Italian League ................................................131 The Roots of the Renaissance: Italy ...........................................................132 Francesco Petrarch: The man who loved books ............................132 Yes, but can you do anything with humanist scholarship? ..........133 The Birth of Renaissance Man ....................................................................134 The Body Beautiful: Renaissance Art ........................................................135 So Much Art, So Little Time ........................................................................135 One Good Turn for Milan, 60 Years of War for Italy .................................137 The Renaissance Heads North ...................................................................139 The Reigns in Spain ......................................................................................140 The fear of God: The Spanish Inquisition ........................................141 The last crusade .................................................................................141 A royal jackpot! ...................................................................................142 Chapter 10: Reformation Ruckus ...............................143 We Three Kings .............................................................................................143 Charles and His Many Royal Duties ...........................................................144 The Dangerous Business of Criticising the Church .................................145 New learning: New danger .................................................................145 The reformers .....................................................................................146 Roll Up! Roll Up! Climb the Stairway to Heaven .......................................146 Heavyweight theology championships ...........................................148 Here I stand! ........................................................................................148 Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Radicals ......................................................149 Germany Prepares for Civil War .................................................................150 A Rôle for the Swiss .....................................................................................151 What Was Happening in the Rest of Europe? ...........................................152 The French Revelation .................................................................................153 Do you know where you re going to? I do! ......................................153 Welcome to Geneva, Dr Calvin. Why not stay over? ......................154 Geneva, the City of God .....................................................................154 One last (rather important) point ....................................................155 Chapter 11: Mass and Massacre: The Wars of Religion ..........157 Charles V s Bad Dreams ..............................................................................157 First Choose Your Pope - But Not Adrian! ................................................158 The Italian Job: Milan Is Mine! ....................................................................158 Following in Father s Footsteps: King Henry II .........................................159 This Pope Was Made for Talking: Pope Paul III ........................................159 The Council of Trent ..........................................................................160 More Counter-Reformation popes ....................................................162 European History For Dummies I m the King of the World! ............................................................................163 The Portuguese set sail .....................................................................163 Columbus sails the ocean blue .........................................................163 East is east, and west is mine, all mine! ...........................................164 Just Put It in One of Philip H s Many Urgent Business Piles .................165 Triumph and disaster at sea .............................................................165 Dutch courage .....................................................................................166 France s Wars of Religion ............................................................................168 Episode 1: The turncoat ....................................................................168 Episode 2: Catherine s terrible revenge ...........................................169 Episode 3: Henry versus Henry versus Henry ................................169 Episode 4: Paris is worth amass ......................................................169 Epilogue ...............................................................................................170 Chapter 12: Tsar Wars ........................................171 The Ottomans: New Improved Turks ........................................................171 Bayezid is Mongol-mangled ..............................................................172 I m holding out for a (Hungarian) hero: John Hunyadi .................172 Mehmet the Conqueror ...................................................................173 That magnificent man and his machinations: Suleiman 1 ..............174 Pirates of the Mediterranean ............................................................175 Is this empire past its sell-by date? ..................................................175 Alexander Nevsky s Ragtime Band .............................................................175 The Tatars invade ...............................................................................176 A third Rome? .....................................................................................176 Ivan the Terrible .................................................................................177 The boyars are back in town ............................................................179 Knights in White Satin .................................................................................180 Focus on the Lithuanians ..................................................................180 Double your country, double your fun ............................................181 Princes of Denmark ......................................................................................182 Banner from heaven ...........................................................................182 Another day will come: King Valdemar IV .......................................182 Three queens for the price of one: The Union of Kolmar .............183 Chapter 13: Absolute Power: The Sun King Rises ................185 Give Me Liberties or Give Me Death ..........................................................185 Trouble Brews in Germany .........................................................................186 Rudolf s Mad Reign ......................................................................................186 Bohemian Rhapsody: The Letter of Majesty ............................................187 The defenestration of Pra-aaaaaaghh!! ............................................188 Ferdinandu overplays his hand .......................................................189 Cardinal Richelieu, the sharpest mind in France ...........................189 Bring it on, you Protestants! .............................................................190 Sweden s Martial Kings ................................................................................190 Sweden is mine, Sigismund! ..............................................................190 It s war, Charles! ..................................................................................190 Gustavus Adolphus - Protestant superhero ...................................191 Table of Contents Not So Fast, Ferdinand II! It Is I, Richelieu! ................................................192 Did You Really Think France Was Finished? .............................................193 He s the finest swordsman in France. Arrest him! ..........................194 With frondes like these, who needs enemies? ................................195 Louis XIV takes charge .......................................................................196 Part (/: Europe Rutes the World .................................. 199 Chapter 14: The (Almost) Irresistible Rise of France and Russia ___201 Spain s Decline - It s Terminal ....................................................................201 A Golden Age in Holland .............................................................................202 England on the Up ........................................................................................202 Expanding Overseas ....................................................................................203 Hold it Right There, King Louis XIV!..........................................................203 Who s the Prince Most Likely to Succeed (to the Spanish Throne, That Is)? ...........................................................204 The players .........................................................................................204 The War of the Spanish Succession .................................................205 Sunset in the West: Exit Louis XIV.............................................................206 The Nobility of Poland-Lithuania Invite Us into Their Beautiful Home .......................................................................207 Sweden: All Seems Fine ...............................................................................208 The Odyssey of King Charles XII......................................................209 Beware hubris! ....................................................................................209 And Sweden goes out of the European cup ....................................210 A Deadly Game of Russian Roulette ...........................................................211 Peter takes charge ..............................................................................211 Travel broadens the mind .................................................................212 St Petersburg .......................................................................................213 Viennese Whirl .............................................................................................214 Chapter 15: Seeking Enlightenment ............................215 Faith or Reason? ...........................................................................................215 The Militant Middle Classes .......................................................................217 Encylopaedia Spells Trouble ......................................................................218 Principals with Principles: The Enlightened Despots .............................219 In Russia, it s mayhem at the top as usual ......................................219 Catherine the Great ............................................................................220 Prussia s Brandenburg Concerto ...............................................................221 Prussia Invades Silesia ................................................................................222 The War of the Austrian Succession ................................................222 The Seven Years War .........................................................................223 Enlightenment Europe .................................................................................223 Please Don t Give Joseph II Ideas ...............................................................224 Poland Polished Off .....................................................................................226 The American Revolution ...........................................................................226 France on the Brink ......................................................................................227 European History For Dummies Chapter 16: France Catches a Cold - and We re All Still Sneezing ..................................229 The French Have Problems, Problems ...................................................229 One for You, Five for Me: Privilege .............................................................230 The Estates General to the Rescue! ...........................................................231 1+1 = trouble .......................................................................................231 Do you realise who we are? ...............................................................232 Fear and Looting in the Country ................................................................233 To the Bastille! ....................................................................................233 Go get him, girls! .................................................................................233 Louis XVI gets one last chance ......................................................234 ... and blows it ...................................................................................234 This Means War! (and Terror) ....................................................................234 Rule by Terror .....................................................................................236 Revolt in the provinces ......................................................................236 Off with their heads - and theirs - oh, and theirs ..........................237 Er, Thank You, General Bonaparte, We ll Take Over from Here .............238 Napoleon has a cunning plan ............................................................239 Napoleon takes charge ......................................................................240 At last, a bit of law and order ............................................................240 Napoleon s wars .................................................................................241 The Bourbons Are Back ..............................................................................242 So, Why Was the French Revolution So Important? ................................242 Chapter 17: Grime Wave: Europe Gets Industrial ................243 A Touch of Romanticism .............................................................................243 Ooh, Napoleon, I ve come over all funny ........................................244 Romanticism gains force ...................................................................244 Is It Me, or Is It Getting More Crowded? ....................................................245 Full steam ahead .................................................................................245 Industrialism spreads ........................................................................245 Rage Against the Machine ...........................................................................246 I m А -getting Outta Here: Emigration .........................................................247 More Than a Touch of Class .......................................................................248 The bourgeoisie: Power to the right sort of people .......................248 The discreet charm of the petit bourgeoisie ..................................248 What about the workers? ..................................................................249 Marx and Sparks ...........................................................................................251 Easy as Al, B3, C2 ...............................................................................252 I tell you, it will happen! One day ..................................................252 That s Progress .............................................................................................253 Scientific technology on display ......................................................253 If it doesn t clear up in a week, come back and see me again ......254 Religion: I m right and you aren t right ............................................254 Mr Darwin s Interesting Ideas .....................................................................256 Table of Contents Chapter 18: Building Nations ..................................257 What Was So New about the Idea of a Nation? .........................................257 I Don t Know: You Liberate People, and Then They Want to Rule Themselves ......................................................258 Napoleon s Europe .......................................................................................258 That s Quite Enough Popular Nationalism for One Century ..................259 Count Metternich is watching you ...................................................260 All together now: The Concert of Europe ........................................261 Europe s Age of Revolution .........................................................................261 Oh, all right, the Greeks can revolt, I suppose ...............................261 If anyone asks, we re charcoal burners ...........................................262 Belgium for the Belgians .............................................·.......................262 To the barricades! ..............................................................................263 Round One: 1830.................................................................................263 Intermission ........................................................................................263 Round Two: 1848................................................................................264 Well, Napoleon III, What Next? ....................................................................266 Honey, I United the Italians .........................................................................266 Bismarck: One Part Blood, Three Parts Iron ............................................268 The Franco-Prussian War ...........................................................................269 Part Vh Europe Tears Itsetf in Irto. ...................«.........271 Chapter 19: Europe s Age of Empire ............................273 Carnage in Paris ...........................................................................................273 The French Try a Republic ... Again .........................................................275 Church versus State ...........................................................................275 A touch of scandal ..............................................................................276 Africa Scrambled ..........................................................................................277 Death in the sun ..................................................................................278 Heart of Darkness: The Belgian Congo ............................................278 A bloody nose for the British ............................................................279 Cathay not-so-Pacific .........................................................................279 Germany on the Up ......................................................................................280 I fought the Pope and the Pope won ................................................280 Reds under the beds ..........................................................................281 Keeping in with the neighbours .......................................................281 Yes, thank you, I ll take over from here ...........................................281 Collective Insecurity ....................................................................................282 Russia Works Out Which Century It Is ......................................................283 Poland seizes its chance - and blows it ..........................................283 Alexander II: Tsar Liberator ..............................................................283 Boom! Why does my tsar go boom? .................................................284 Wider still and wider - Russia, that is .............................................285 Buy Austria, Get Hungary Free! ..................................................................286 Serbia: A Small State, Thinking Big ............................................................286 European History For Dummies Chapter 20: The War to End All Wars - Doesn t ..................287 One Big Happy Family .................................................................................287 Kaiser Wilhelm II .................................................................................288 In the navy ...........................................................................................288 General von Schlieffen s Cunning Plan ......................................................288 Barney in the Balkans ........................................................................289 Don t mess with the Austro-Hungarian empire ..............................289 It ll All Be Over by Christmas .....................................................................291 The Russians Are Coming ...........................................................................292 General against general .....................................................................292 All quiet (eventually) on the eastern front .....................................292 Trenches in the West ...................................................................................293 Winston s winning wheeze ................................................................294 Death struggle at Verdun ...................................................................295 Slaughter on the Somme ....................................................................295 Death in the mud ................................................................................296 Coming Full Circle: Serbia and Salonika ....................................................296 Italy Finally Joins In .....................................................................................297 War with the Turks .......................................................................................297 War at Sea ......................................................................................................298 You Win Some, You Lose Some (Allies, That Is) .......................................298 How It All Ended ...........................................................................................299 Whose Fault Was the First World War? ......................................................299 Chapter 21: Revolution in Russia ..............................301 A Tsar is Born ...............................................................................................301 Full steam ahead .................................................................................302 Losing is the new winning .................................................................303 A Little War ................................................................................................304 Sunday, Bloody Sunday .....................................................................304 This is a revolution, isn t it? ..............................................................305 Oh, all right, then, you can have a parliament ...............................306 Just don t call it a constitution .........................................................306 Russia Goes to War and Gets a Revolution ...............................................308 A very provisional government ........................................................308 Hi, Comrades, I m home! ....................................................................309 So much for Plan A .............................................................................309 What this country needs is a spot of discipline .............................309 Red October ........................................................................................310 We ll Have None of That Democracy Nonsense Here ..............................311 Peace at any price ..............................................................................311 This means (civil) war! ......................................................................311 I say, which end of this spade does one use? .................................313 War Against the Peasants ............................................................................313 Would You Buy a Used Economic Policy from This Man? ......................314 Table of Contents Chapter 22: Europe Goes to Extremes ..........................315 The Yank Is Coming - and So Are His Fourteen Points ...........................315 Not Very Blessed Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference ...............316 The dictated Treaty of Versailles ......................................................317 Don t think you re getting away with it, either ...............................318 This Turkey s not for stuffing ............................................................319 The League of (Some) Nations ...................................................................319 The Italians: Fuming at Fiume .....................................................................320 I m the leader! .....................................................................................320 How to get away with murder ...........................................................321 All this, and the trains run on time, too ..........................................321 Can We Play Dictators, Too? .......................................................................322 Germany s nightmare years ..............................................................322 You dig 16 tons - and I ll take them home with me, thank you ....323 For a fistful of dollars, you should get a cup of coffee ..................323 Springtime for Hitler ..........................................................................324 Whatever Happened to Leon Trotsky? ......................................................326 Stalin s Russia ...............................................................................................326 No Pasaran! Fascists versus Communists .................................................327 How to Win Land and Intimidate People: The Anti-Comintern Pact .....328 Chapter 23: World Warto Cold War ............................329 Lightning War: Blitzkrieg .............................................................................329 A Phoney War in the West ...........................................................................330 Game Over. Isn t it? ......................................................................................331 Battle over Britain ..............................................................................331 Bombs and U-boats ............................................................................332 Hitler s New Order .......................................................................................332 Does anyone know which side we re on? ........................................333 Resistance is futile! .............................................................................333 Put Russia on hold - something s come up ....................................333 Operation Barbarossa........................................................................334 Stalingrad .............................................................................................335 The Holocaust ..............................................................................................335 We re Going to Have Real Problems If We Win .........................................336 Second front now! ...............................................................................337 Get Berlin! ............................................................................................337 Some Germany for you, and some Germany for me ......................338 Time to Sort This Mess Out: Marshall Aid ................................................338 Disconnecting People ..................................................................................339 Slices of salami ...................................................................................339 Greece: The Truman Show ................................................................340 ACoIdWar ....................................................................................................340 Deutschland, Deutschland unter Alles: Germany Divided ......................340 High noon in Berlin ............................................................................341 This is Hungary calling the world: Come in, please ....................341 This wall has ears - and machine guns, too ...................................342 European History For Dummies Chapter 24: Eurovision .......................................343 Watch Where You re Pointing That Missile: NATO and the Warsaw Pact .....................................................................343 Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Colonel Nasser? ............................344 Should I Stay or Should I Go? ......................................................................344 Rock the Casbah: The French Won t Go Quietly ......................................345 Let s Be Friends: France and Germany ......................................................346 The European Coal and Steel Community .......................................346 Six of one, more than half a dozen of the other: The Common Market ......................................................................347 Generals Come, and Generals Go ...............................................................348 Ding dong! The Boss is dead! ............................................................349 Reality Czech ......................................................................................350 The Cold War Gets Frostier .........................................................................351 Poles apart ..........................................................................................352 Gorbymania .........................................................................................352 And the wall came tumblin down ....................................................352 Bloodbath in the Balkans ..................................................................354 A new united states? ..........................................................................355 What Comes Next? .......................................................................................355 Part Vu: The Part of Tens ...........................................357 Chapter 25: Ten Europeans Who Dominated the Continent ........359 Gaius Julius Caesar circa 100 B.C. - 44 B.C ...............................................359 Philip II of Spain, 1526-1598........................................................................360 Louis XIV of France, 1638-1715..................................................................360 Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821................................................................360 Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945................................................................................361 The Volkswagen beetle , 1938-2003..........................................................361 Thomas Cook, 1808-1892............................................................................362 Pasta ..............................................................................................................363 Real Madrid, 1956-1960...............................................................................363 ABBA, 1972-1982..........................................................................................364 Chapter 26: Ten Days That Shook Europe - and the World ........365 22 May 337: Constantine the Great is Converted .....................................365 29 May 1453: Constantinople Falls to the Turks ......................................366 22 November 1497: Vasco da Gama Rounds the Cape of Good Hope ...366 21 September 1520: Martin Luther is Excommunicated .........................366 26 August 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen....367 13 December 1901: Marconi Sends the First Transatlantic Radio Signal ..............................................................367 Table of Contents 29 May 1906: Finnish Women Get the Vote ...............................................368 25 May 1940: Penicillin is Successfully Trialled .......................................369 1 December 1934: Sergei Mironovich Kirov is Murdered ........................369 6 August 1991: Tim Berners-Lee Launches the World Wide Web ...........370 Chapter 27: Ten Places (apart from Naples) to See Before You Die ........................................371 The Standing Stones of Carnac ...................................................................371 Knossos: Palace of the Minotaur ................................................................372 Ostia: A Roman Town in the Roman Suburbs ...........................................372 Hagia Sophia - Church and Mosque Where West Meets East ................373 Aachen - Palace of Charlemagne ...............................................................373 The Islamic Beauty of the Alhambra .........................................................374 The Vasa: The Ship That Rose from the Sea .............................................374 Sarajevo - Moving On from the Bullets .....................................................375 Berlin: The City That Came Back from the Dead .....................................375 The Tragedy of Oradour sur Glane............................................................ 376 Chapter 28: Ten Things Europe (and the World) Could Have Done Without ....................................377 Antisemitism .................................................................................................377 The Inquisition .............................................................................................378 The Black Death ...........................................................................................378 Sugar ..............................................................................................................379 King Leopold II of Belgium ..........................................................................379 The Berlin Wall .............................................................................................380 Russian Passport and Border Control .......................................................380 French Plumbing ..........................................................................................381 Lederhosen...................................................................................................382 Kraftwerk.......................................................................................................382 Index................... ....................................................383
adam_txt	Contents at a Glance ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Introduction . 1 Parti: Origins of a Continent. .7 Chapter 1: Not So Much a Continent As a View of Life .9 Chapter 2: The Stone Age Rocks .21 Part 11: Europe of the Ancients. .33 Chapter 3: You're Ancient History! .35 Chapter 4: The Ups and Downs of the Roman Empire .51 Part HI: Middle Ages .65 Chapter 5: Dancing in the Dark Ages .67 Chapter 6: Gold, Murder, and Frankish Sense .81 Chapter 7: Knock, Knock, Knocking Heads at Heaven's Door .97 Chapter 8: Don't Call Us Medieval! .113 Part IV: Aleut Ideas, New Worlds. .127 Chapter 9: Back to the Future: The Renaissance .129 Chapter 10: Reformation Ruckus .143 Chapter 11: Mass and Massacre: The Wars of Religion .157 Chapter 12: Tsar Wars .171 Chapter 13: Absolute Power: The Sun King Rises .185 Part V: Europe Rules the World .199 Chapter 14: The (Almost) Irresistible Rise of France and Russia .201 Chapter 15: Seeking Enlightenment .215 Chapter 16: France Catches a Cold - and We're All Still Sneezing .229 Chapter 17: Grime Wave: Europe Gets Industrial .243 Chapter 18: Building Nations .257 Part VI: Europe "tears Itself in two. .271 Chapter 19: Europe's Age of Empire .273 Chapter 20: The War to End All Wars - Doesn't .287 Chapter 21: Revolution in Russia .301 Chapter 22: Europe Goes to Extremes .315 Chapter 23: World War to Cold War .329 Chapter 24: Eurovision.343 Part VU: The Part of Tern .357 Chapter 25: Ten Europeans Who Dominated the Continent .359 Chapter 26: Ten Days That Shook Europe - and the World .365 Chapter 27: Ten Places (apart from Naples) to See Before You Die .371 Chapter 28: Ten Things Europe (and the World) Could Have Done Without .377 Ыек .383 Table of Contents ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Introduction . 1 About This Book .1 Conventions Used in This Book .2 Foolish Assumptions .2 How This Book is Organised .3 Part I: Origins of a Continent .3 Part II: Europe of the Ancients .3 Part III: Middle Ages .3 Part IV: New Ideas, New Worlds .4 Part V: Europe Rules the World .4 Part VI: Europe Tears Itself in Two .4 Part VII: The Part of Tens .4 Icons Used in This Book .5 Where to Go from Here .5 Parti: Origins of a Continent .7 Chapter 1: Not So Much a Continent As a View of Life .9 Where Is Europe? .9 How Many Europés? .10 A Christian Europe? .10 A royal Europe? .11 A democratic Europe? .12 Is There Such a Thing as European Civilisation? .13 Why Does Europe Have So Many Languages? .13 Is There a European Culture? .14 What of Europe Lies beyond Europe? .15 From the Holy Land .15 Back to Africa .16 To a new world .16 Europeans transported .17 Divided Europe or United Europe? .17 Long division .17 Europe united? .18 This Must Never Happen Again! .19 Chapter 2: The Stone Age Rocks .21 Three Stone Ages for the Price of One .21 Rummaging Through the Dustbins of History .22 Is there a palaeobotanist in the house? .23 Learning from the neighbours .24 European History For Dummies Out of Africa . We Think .24 The First Europeans .25 The Beagle has landed .25 The painting's on the wall .26 Go easy on the ice .27 Down on the (Stone Age) Farm .27 The first cities .28 The farmers of Greece .28 You say you want a (Neolithic) revolution .29 Meet the Flint Stones .29 Tombs and what they tell us .30 Standing stones (and some that have fallen over) .30 Mining Metal .31 Partii: Europe of the Ancients., .33 Chapter 3: You're Ancient History! .35 Greece Is the Word .35 An Englishman on Crete .35 New kids on the block: the Mycenaeans .36 Decline and fall . and rise .39 Living in a Polis State .40 Hmm . it's not that democratic, is it? .40 Greek geeks .41 Squaring Up to the Persians .43 Here they come! .43 Here they come again! .43 My Big Fat Greek Civil War .43 Macedonia and Alexander the Great .45 What a Way to Run a (Roman) Republic! .46 A revolution and a (not very democratic) republic .46 Conquering the neighbours .47 The Phoenicians - Coming to a Coastline Near You .48 Ain't room for both of us: Rome versus Carthage .48 Here comes Hannibal .48 The Senate and (rather grumpy) people of Rome .49 Chapter 4: The Ups and Downs of the Roman Empire .51 War, Seduction, Murder, and War Again: The New Roman Empire .51 The Emperor's New (Purple) Clothes .53 You Probably Wouldn't Want to Be an Emperor .55 Two (crowned) heads are better than one - we hope .56 Emperor or god? .57 Table of Contents Getting an Empire .57 The fall of Gaul .59 Rebel rebel .59 Rocking all over the (Roman) world .60 The Roman Peace .60 A Civilised People - Give or Take the Odd Gladiatorial Combat .61 Roman social climbing .61 Daddy knows best .62 Cool, clear water .62 Follow the military road .62 Bread and circuses .62 The Beginning of the End of Empire .63 Part 111: Middle Ayes .65 Chapter 5: Dancing in the Dark Ages .67 Meet Constantine .67 Changing My Religion .68 That's a Very Interesting Question, Arius .69 And Lo, There Came Invaders from the East .70 Can we come and stay? The Visigoths .71 Uh-oh: Here come the Huns .72 The Vandals go clubbing (in the Mediterranean) .73 How the West Was Won .74 Your mission, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, should you choose to accept it .74 Second-class (Roman) citizens .76 Yet More Barbarian Raiders .76 The (Eastern) Empire Strikes Back .77 Let's Be Frank .79 The Incredible Rise of Islam .79 Chapter 6: Gold, Murder, and Frankish Sense .81 Let's Get this Church on the Road .81 Crisis in the East .82 The emperors strike back .82 Icons and politics .83 Don't Live Like an Egyptian: Christianity in the West .83 Monks, monasteries, and more .84 Gregory the Great .85 Who You Gonna Call? The Franks! .86 With love from me (via St Peter) to you .86 You scratch my back, Your Holiness, and I'll scratch yours .87 Holy Doctrinal Difference, Batman! .91 European History For Dummies Axes of Evil: Enter the Vikings .92 Purveyors of luxury goods, wholesale pillagers by appointment .92 Hey, guys! We can trash places in the East as well! .93 Norman conquests .94 Chapter 7: Knock, Knock, Knocking Heads at Heaven's Door .97 I'm the King of the Germans .97 Three guys called Otto .97 Heavyweight championship of the world: Pope versus Emperor .98 lam an antipope .99 The Pope's new friends .99 Gregory versus Henry: The Investiture Contest .99 Russia Gets Religion .101 Turkish Delight .101 The Crusades .102 1095: The People's Crusade .102 1095-1099: First Crusade .103 1146: Second Crusade .103 1190-1192: Third Crusade .104 1199-1204: Fourth Crusade .104 Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Crusades .105 Playing Crusades at Home .106 Too Much Power to the Pope .107 The German Emperors Fancy Ruling Somewhere Warm .108 Vespers in Sicily .108 Just Who's in Charge in France? .109 A Sunset in the East: The Ottoman Turks .110 Chapter 8: Don't Call Us Medieval! .113 Why the Term 'Middle Ages'? .113 We're All Doomed! Religion .114 Amazing grace .114 Pilgrims progress .115 A monastic life for me! .115 University Challenge .117 Scholarly inquiry .118 Corpus Christi Carnival .119 The Great Cathedrals .120 Castles, Chivalry, and Knights .121 Knights in shining armour .121 Is this a war? No, it's the regional semi-final .122 Coming up next - jousting from Hicksted .123 Don't ring us, Sir Knight, we'll ring you .123 Heraldry .124 Managing Money-The Medieval Way .125 The Black Death .125 Table of Contents Part W: New Ueas, Nevi Wortds . 127 Chapter 9: Back to the Future: The Renaissance .129 Small City States - Beautiful but Very Vulnerable .129 Forty Years of 'Peace': The Italian League .131 The Roots of the Renaissance: Italy .132 Francesco Petrarch: The man who loved books .132 Yes, but can you do anything with humanist scholarship? .133 The Birth of Renaissance Man .134 The Body Beautiful: Renaissance Art .135 So Much Art, So Little Time .135 One Good Turn for Milan, 60 Years of War for Italy .137 The Renaissance Heads North .139 The Reigns in Spain .140 The fear of God: The Spanish Inquisition .141 The last crusade .141 A royal jackpot! .142 Chapter 10: Reformation Ruckus .143 We Three Kings .143 Charles and His Many Royal Duties .144 The Dangerous Business of Criticising the Church .145 New learning: New danger .145 The reformers .146 Roll Up! Roll Up! Climb the Stairway to Heaven .146 Heavyweight theology championships .148 Here I stand! .148 Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Radicals .149 Germany Prepares for Civil War .150 A Rôle for the Swiss .151 What Was Happening in the Rest of Europe? .152 The French Revelation .153 Do you know where you're going to? I do! .153 Welcome to Geneva, Dr Calvin. Why not stay over? .154 Geneva, the City of God .154 One last (rather important) point .155 Chapter 11: Mass and Massacre: The Wars of Religion .157 Charles V's Bad Dreams .157 First Choose Your Pope - But Not Adrian! .158 The Italian Job: Milan Is Mine! .158 Following in Father's Footsteps: King Henry II .159 This Pope Was Made for Talking: Pope Paul III .159 The Council of Trent .160 More Counter-Reformation popes .162 European History For Dummies I'm the King of the World! .163 The Portuguese set sail .163 Columbus sails the ocean blue .163 East is east, and west is mine, all mine! .164 Just Put It in One of Philip H's Many 'Urgent Business' Piles .165 Triumph and disaster at sea .165 Dutch courage .166 France's Wars of Religion .168 Episode 1: The turncoat .168 Episode 2: Catherine's terrible revenge .169 Episode 3: Henry versus Henry versus Henry .169 Episode 4: Paris is worth amass .169 Epilogue .170 Chapter 12: Tsar Wars .171 The Ottomans: New Improved Turks .171 Bayezid is Mongol-mangled .172 I'm holding out for a (Hungarian) hero: John Hunyadi .172 Mehmet 'the Conqueror' .173 That magnificent man and his machinations: Suleiman 1 .174 Pirates of the Mediterranean .175 Is this empire past its sell-by date? .175 Alexander Nevsky's Ragtime Band .175 The Tatars invade .176 A third Rome? .176 Ivan the Terrible .177 The boyars are back in town .179 Knights in White Satin .180 Focus on the Lithuanians .180 Double your country, double your fun .181 Princes of Denmark .182 Banner from heaven .182 Another day will come: King Valdemar IV .182 Three queens for the price of one: The Union of Kolmar .183 Chapter 13: Absolute Power: The Sun King Rises .185 Give Me Liberties or Give Me Death .185 Trouble Brews in Germany .186 Rudolf's Mad Reign .186 Bohemian Rhapsody: The Letter of Majesty .187 The defenestration of Pra-aaaaaaghh!! .188 Ferdinandu overplays his hand .189 Cardinal Richelieu, the sharpest mind in France .189 Bring it on, you Protestants! .190 Sweden's Martial Kings .190 Sweden is mine, Sigismund! .190 It's war, Charles! .190 Gustavus Adolphus - Protestant superhero .191 Table of Contents Not So Fast, Ferdinand II! It Is I, Richelieu! .192 Did You Really Think France Was Finished? .193 He's the finest swordsman in France. Arrest him! .194 With frondes like these, who needs enemies? .195 Louis XIV takes charge .196 Part (/: Europe Rutes the World . 199 Chapter 14: The (Almost) Irresistible Rise of France and Russia _201 Spain's Decline - It's Terminal .201 A Golden Age in Holland .202 England on the Up .202 Expanding Overseas .203 Hold it Right There, King Louis XIV!.203 Who's the Prince Most Likely to Succeed (to the Spanish Throne, That Is)? .204 The players .204 The War of the Spanish Succession .205 Sunset in the West: Exit Louis XIV.206 The Nobility of Poland-Lithuania Invite Us into Their Beautiful Home .207 Sweden: All Seems Fine .208 The Odyssey of King Charles XII.209 Beware hubris! .209 And Sweden goes out of the European cup .210 A Deadly Game of Russian Roulette .211 Peter takes charge .211 Travel broadens the mind .212 St Petersburg .213 Viennese Whirl .214 Chapter 15: Seeking Enlightenment .215 Faith or Reason? .215 The Militant Middle Classes .217 Encylopaedia Spells Trouble .218 Principals with Principles: The Enlightened Despots .219 In Russia, it's mayhem at the top as usual .219 Catherine the Great .220 Prussia's Brandenburg Concerto .221 Prussia Invades Silesia .222 The War of the Austrian Succession .222 The Seven Years'War .223 Enlightenment Europe .223 Please Don't Give Joseph II Ideas .224 Poland Polished Off .226 The American Revolution .226 France on the Brink .227 European History For Dummies Chapter 16: France Catches a Cold - and We're All Still Sneezing .229 The French Have Problems, Problems .229 One for You, Five for Me: Privilege .230 The Estates General to the Rescue! .231 1+1 = trouble .231 Do you realise who we are? .232 Fear and Looting in the Country .233 To the Bastille! .233 Go get him, girls! .233 Louis XVI gets one last chance .234 . and blows it .234 This Means War! (and Terror) .234 Rule by Terror .236 Revolt in the provinces .236 Off with their heads - and theirs - oh, and theirs .237 Er, Thank You, General Bonaparte, We'll Take Over from Here .238 Napoleon has a cunning plan .239 Napoleon takes charge .240 At last, a bit of law and order .240 Napoleon's wars .241 The Bourbons Are Back .242 So, Why Was the French Revolution So Important? .242 Chapter 17: Grime Wave: Europe Gets Industrial .243 A Touch of Romanticism .243 Ooh, Napoleon, I've come over all funny .244 Romanticism gains force .244 Is It Me, or Is It Getting More Crowded? .245 Full steam ahead .245 Industrialism spreads .245 Rage Against the Machine .246 I'm А -getting Outta Here: Emigration .247 More Than a Touch of Class .248 The bourgeoisie: Power to the right sort of people .248 The discreet charm of the petit bourgeoisie .248 What about the workers? .249 Marx and Sparks .251 Easy as Al, B3, C2 .252 I tell you, it will happen! One day .252 That's Progress .253 Scientific technology on display .253 If it doesn't clear up in a week, come back and see me again .254 Religion: I'm right and you aren't right .254 Mr Darwin's Interesting Ideas .256 Table of Contents Chapter 18: Building Nations .257 What Was So New about the Idea of a Nation? .257 I Don't Know: You Liberate People, and Then They Want to Rule Themselves .258 Napoleon's Europe .258 That's Quite Enough Popular Nationalism for One Century .259 Count Metternich is watching you .260 All together now: The Concert of Europe .261 Europe's Age of Revolution .261 Oh, all right, the Greeks can revolt, I suppose .261 If anyone asks, we're charcoal burners .262 Belgium for the Belgians .·.262 To the barricades! .263 Round One: 1830.263 Intermission .263 Round Two: 1848.264 Well, Napoleon III, What Next? .266 Honey, I United the Italians .266 Bismarck: One Part Blood, Three Parts Iron .268 The Franco-Prussian War .269 Part Vh Europe Tears Itsetf in Irto. .«.271 Chapter 19: Europe's Age of Empire .273 Carnage in Paris .273 The French Try a Republic . Again .275 Church versus State .275 A touch of scandal .276 Africa Scrambled .277 Death in the sun .278 Heart of Darkness: The Belgian Congo .278 A bloody nose for the British .279 Cathay not-so-Pacific .279 Germany on the Up .280 I fought the Pope and the Pope won .280 Reds under the beds .281 Keeping in with the neighbours .281 Yes, thank you, I'll take over from here .281 Collective Insecurity .282 Russia Works Out Which Century It Is .283 Poland seizes its chance - and blows it .283 Alexander II: Tsar Liberator .283 Boom! Why does my tsar go boom? .284 Wider still and wider - Russia, that is .285 Buy Austria, Get Hungary Free! .286 Serbia: A Small State, Thinking Big .286 European History For Dummies Chapter 20: The War to End All Wars - Doesn't .287 One Big Happy Family .287 Kaiser Wilhelm II .288 In the navy .288 General von Schlieffen's Cunning Plan .288 Barney in the Balkans .289 Don't mess with the Austro-Hungarian empire .289 It'll All Be Over by Christmas .291 The Russians Are Coming .292 General against general .292 All quiet (eventually) on the eastern front .292 Trenches in the West .293 Winston's winning wheeze .294 Death struggle at Verdun .295 Slaughter on the Somme .295 Death in the mud .296 Coming Full Circle: Serbia and Salonika .296 Italy Finally Joins In .297 War with the Turks .297 War at Sea .298 You Win Some, You Lose Some (Allies, That Is) .298 How It All Ended .299 Whose Fault Was the First World War? .299 Chapter 21: Revolution in Russia .301 A Tsar is Born .301 Full steam ahead .302 Losing is the new winning .303 A Little War .304 Sunday, Bloody Sunday .304 This is a revolution, isn't it? .305 Oh, all right, then, you can have a parliament .306 Just don't call it a constitution .306 Russia Goes to War and Gets a Revolution .308 A very provisional government .308 Hi, Comrades, I'm home! .309 So much for Plan A .309 What this country needs is a spot of discipline .309 Red October .310 We'll Have None of That Democracy Nonsense Here .311 Peace at any price .311 This means (civil) war! .311 I say, which end of this spade does one use? .313 War Against the Peasants .313 Would You Buy a Used Economic Policy from This Man? .314 Table of Contents Chapter 22: Europe Goes to Extremes .315 The Yank Is Coming - and So Are His Fourteen Points .315 Not Very Blessed Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference .316 The dictated Treaty of Versailles .317 Don't think you're getting away with it, either .318 This Turkey's not for stuffing .319 The League of (Some) Nations .319 The Italians: Fuming at Fiume .320 I'm the leader! .320 How to get away with murder .321 All this, and the trains run on time, too .321 Can We Play Dictators, Too? .322 Germany's nightmare years .322 You dig 16 tons - and I'll take them home with me, thank you .323 For a fistful of dollars, you should get a cup of coffee .323 Springtime for Hitler .324 Whatever Happened to Leon Trotsky? .326 Stalin's Russia .326 No Pasaran! Fascists versus Communists .327 How to Win Land and Intimidate People: The Anti-Comintern Pact .328 Chapter 23: World Warto Cold War .329 Lightning War: Blitzkrieg .329 A Phoney War in the West .330 Game Over. Isn't it? .331 Battle over Britain .331 Bombs and U-boats .332 Hitler's New Order .332 Does anyone know which side we're on? .333 Resistance is futile! .333 Put Russia on hold - something's come up .333 Operation Barbarossa.334 Stalingrad .335 The Holocaust .335 We're Going to Have Real Problems If We Win .336 Second front now! .337 Get Berlin! .337 Some Germany for you, and some Germany for me .338 Time to Sort This Mess Out: Marshall Aid .338 Disconnecting People .339 Slices of salami .339 Greece: The Truman Show .340 ACoIdWar .340 Deutschland, Deutschland unter Alles: Germany Divided .340 High noon in Berlin .341 This is Hungary calling the world: Come in, please .341 This wall has ears - and machine guns, too .342 European History For Dummies Chapter 24: Eurovision .343 Watch Where You're Pointing That Missile: NATO and the Warsaw Pact .343 Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Colonel Nasser? .344 Should I Stay or Should I Go? .344 Rock the Casbah: The French Won't Go Quietly .345 Let's Be Friends: France and Germany .346 The European Coal and Steel Community .346 Six of one, more than half a dozen of the other: The Common Market .347 Generals Come, and Generals Go .348 Ding dong! The Boss is dead! .349 Reality Czech .350 The Cold War Gets Frostier .351 Poles apart .352 Gorbymania .352 And the wall came tumblin' down .352 Bloodbath in the Balkans .354 A new united states? .355 What Comes Next? .355 Part Vu: The Part of Tens .357 Chapter 25: Ten Europeans Who Dominated the Continent .359 Gaius Julius Caesar circa 100 B.C. - 44 B.C .359 Philip II of Spain, 1526-1598.360 Louis XIV of France, 1638-1715.360 Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821.360 Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945.361 The Volkswagen 'beetle', 1938-2003.361 Thomas Cook, 1808-1892.362 Pasta .363 Real Madrid, 1956-1960.363 ABBA, 1972-1982.364 Chapter 26: Ten Days That Shook Europe - and the World .365 22 May 337: Constantine the Great is Converted .365 29 May 1453: Constantinople Falls to the Turks .366 22 November 1497: Vasco da Gama Rounds the Cape of Good Hope .366 21 September 1520: Martin Luther is Excommunicated .366 26 August 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.367 13 December 1901: Marconi Sends the First Transatlantic Radio Signal .367 Table of Contents 29 May 1906: Finnish Women Get the Vote .368 25 May 1940: Penicillin is Successfully Trialled .369 1 December 1934: Sergei Mironovich Kirov is Murdered .369 6 August 1991: Tim Berners-Lee Launches the World Wide Web .370 Chapter 27: Ten Places (apart from Naples) to See Before You Die .371 The Standing Stones of Carnac .371 Knossos: Palace of the Minotaur .372 Ostia: A Roman Town in the Roman Suburbs .372 Hagia Sophia - Church and Mosque Where West Meets East .373 Aachen - Palace of Charlemagne .373 The Islamic Beauty of the Alhambra .374 The Vasa: The Ship That Rose from the Sea .374 Sarajevo - Moving On from the Bullets .375 Berlin: The City That Came Back from the Dead .375 The Tragedy of Oradour sur Glane. 376 Chapter 28: Ten Things Europe (and the World) Could Have Done Without .377 Antisemitism .377 The Inquisition .378 The Black Death .378 Sugar .379 King Leopold II of Belgium .379 The Berlin Wall .380 Russian Passport and Border Control .380 French Plumbing .381 Lederhosen.382 Kraftwerk.382 Index. .383
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