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In 476 C.E. Romulus, one of the last Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, Odoacer became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome.
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The Dark Ages is a categorization commonly used to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Exploration.
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The Crusades were a group of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups.
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The Renaissance was a time period from the 14th to the 17th century in Europe. This era bridged the time between the Middle Ages and modern times.
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The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval in Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
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European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century”
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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The French Revolution was a period of time in France when the people overthrew the monarchy and took control of the government.
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World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.
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World War II, or the Second World War – global military conflict from 1939 to 1945, which was fought between the Allied powers of the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, with their respective allies.
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The Allies were concerned with the brutal leadership of Joseph Stalin as well as the spread of communism.
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Military alliance formed between 26 nations to enforce the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949.
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As of 1950, the European Coal and Steel Community begins to unite European countries economically and politically in order to secure lasting peace.
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In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries
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The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
