Classical antiquity Roman times Celtic tribes Late Antiquity and Migration Period Migration period First phase

300-500 Germanic tribes Second phase 500-700 Slavic, Hun and Turkic tribes Later Roman Empire Middle Ages Byzantium Early Middle Ages Feudal Christendom New societies Byzantine survival Western society Rise of Islam Trade and economy Church and monasticism Carolingian Europe Carolingian Renaissance Breakup of the Carolingian Empire New kingdoms and a revived Byzantium Art and architecture Military and technological development High Middle Ages A divided church Society and economic life

Rise of state power Holy wars Crusades Intellectual life Technology and military Architecture, art and music Church life Late Middle Ages War, famine and plague The Black Death 1347-1350 Society and economy State resurgence Collapse of Byzantium Fall of Constantinople 1453 Controversy within the Church Scholars, intellectuals and exploration Technological and military developments Late medieval art and architecture Early modern Europe Machievellis The Prince 1513 Council of Trent 1545 Elizabethan Era 1558-1603 Shakespeare Renaissance Ferdinand I Habsburg gains Bohemia and Hungary 1526 Greek and Roman culture Rebirth Ferdinand of Tirole Rudolf II and the alchemists

Rabbi Yehudah Loew ben Bezalel Mordechai Maisel Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Origins Latin and Greek phases of Renaissance humanism Social and political structures in Italy Black Death Cultural conditions in Florence Characteristics Humanism Art Science Religion Self-awareness German Renaissance Albrecht Durer Martin Luther Johannes Gutenberg Johann Reuchlin Exploration and trade Discovery of the Americas 1492 End of Reconquista 1492 End of Kutna Hora silver mining Reformation 1517 Mercantilism and colonial expansion Crisis of the 17th century The Second Defenestration 1618 Thirty Years War 1618-1648

Enlightenment Age of Reason 1775 American Revolution 1778 French Revolution From revolution to imperialism Industrial revolution Political revolution French Revolution 1789 Napoleonic Wars The end of the HRE Revolutions of 1848 Nations rising The Bohemian National Revival Imperialism The geopolitical disadvantage of Austria Hungary World Wars and Cold War First World War Death of Franz Ferdinand Austria-Hungary Czechoslovak Legions The Mafia Cooperation with the Slovaks Masaryk, Benes, Stefanik, Kramar, Svehla The politicians at home Jaroslav Hasek, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke Suppression of German, Polish and Hungarian independence Interwar Economic success and ethnic strife Great Depression

Impact on the Sudeten Germans World War II Munich Conference Invasion Collaboration and resistance The assassination of Heydrich The Prague uprising and the Russian Liberation Army 1945-1948 Cold War Coup dtat Show trials Death of Stalin and Gottwald Dubcek and the Prague Spring Warszaw pact invasion Jan Palach Normalization Velvet Revolution of 1989 Recent history Velvet Divorce EU membership