Early modern Europe: Did you mean...?

Map of Europe in 400 CE

Artist's impression depciting a military encampment in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages or Late Antiquity. No specific culture is depicted, but it could be Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Goths, or warriors of...

Map showing central Europe in the 5th century CE.

The Knights Templar were established c. 1119 and given papal recognition in 1129. It was a Catholic medieval military order whose members combined martial prowess with a monastic life to defend Christian holy sites and pilgrims...

Religion in ancient Egypt was fully integrated into the people's daily lives. The gods were present at one's birth, throughout one's life, in the transition from earthly life to the eternal, and continued their care for...

As the Stone Age covers around 99% of our human technological history, it would seem there is a lot to talk about when looking at the development of tools in this period. Despite our reliance on the sometimes scarce archaeological...

Feudalism was the system in 10th-13th century European medieval societies where a social hierarchy was established based on local administrative control and the distribution of land into units (fiefs). A landowner (lord) gave a fief...

Europe in 526 CE.

Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors...

Approximate borders in Europe around 220 BC. Based on the Pengiun Atlas of History.