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2 days ago · History of Europe. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the ...
3 days ago · 1470 – Cape Palmas is passed. [3] 1472 – Fernão do Pó lands on the island of Bioko. [4] 1473 – Lopo Gonçalves is the first European sailor to cross the Equator. [3] [4] 1474–75 – Ruy de Sequeira discovers São Tomé and Príncipe. [4] 1482 – Diogo Cão reaches the Congo River, where he erects a padrão ("pillar of stone").
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1 day ago · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
3 days ago · Description. Includes table showing area and populations of the European powers. Indicates fortified towns, military headquarters, naval stations, railroads; concentric circl. Inset of location map of the world with Europe highlighted in red. Prime meridian: Greenwich.
Apr 26, 2024 · July 12, 2018 - The map of Europe underwent drastic revision after World War I. The defeated Central Powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey – suffered huge territorial losses, and new independent countries were born, from Finland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south.
Apr 20, 2024 · A map of Europe in 1815 depicting Napoleonic France, Prussia, the Austrian Empire, and the boundary of the Germanic Confederation.
6 days ago · Primary Source. Map of Europe, 1918. Annotation. This map illustrates European borders prior to the start of WWI in 1914 with black lines and new states formed by the First World War in red. As the map illustrates, a number of states became independent from Tsarist Russia. What new states were these?
