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Europe about 1560, as in the 1923 William Shepherd Atlas. Regardless of the precise dates used to define its beginning and end points, the early modern period is generally agreed to have comprised the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
The emergence of modern Europe, 1500–1648 Economy and society. The 16th century was a period of vigorous economic expansion. This expansion in turn played a major role in the many other transformations—social, political, and cultural—of the early modern age.
Timeline. c. 45000 BCE. Potential earliest arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe . 30000 BCE - 12000 BCE. Cave art culture in Europe . c. 20000 BCE. Cave painting flourishes in Spain and France, the most famous being the Cave of Lascaux in France. 5000 BCE. Hierarchical societies emerge in southeast Europe .
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The beginning of the early modern period is not clear-cut, but is generally accepted as in the late 15th century or early 16th century. Significant dates in this transitional phase from medieval to early modern Europe can be noted: 1415 – Conquest of Ceuta by the Portuguese; 1444 – Johannes Gutenberg's Movable type
Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789. Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of the variety of people’s lives in the early modern period and the global context of European developments. Six central topics – individuals in ...
Aspects of early modern society; Politics and diplomacy. The state of European politics. Discovery of the New World; Nation-states and dynastic rivalries; Turkey and eastern Europe; Reformation and Counter-Reformation; Diplomacy in the age of the Reformation; The Wars of Religion; The Thirty Years’ War. The crisis in Germany; The crisis in ...
This article deals with the history of Europe between c. 1450 CE – the time of the Italian Renaissance – to 1789, the outbreak of the French Revolution. This is traditionally regarded as the early modern phase of European history, and was certainly a critical period for world history.
