Description
This course is a survey of the history of Europe from the fall of Rome to the present. Topics include: the Germanic invasions, Charlemagne, the impact of the Norsemen, the rebirth of cities, the Medieval church, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the age of expansion and conquest, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Conference of Vienna, the urban/industrial revolutions, fin-de-siele curlture, World War I and the Russian Revolution, the rise of nazism, World War II, the cold war, suburbanization, the student rebellions of 1968, the break-up of the Soviet Union, and the move towards a United Europe.