500 important dates in the history of Europe and the West

What began the journey that led European civilization from the Athenian Acropolis to the Large Hadron Collider? What ideas and discoveries shaped the Western world by the 21st century? The history of Europe and the West is not just countless wars and battles, negotiations and coronations. It is the change of different eras: from stoicism to existentialism, from romanticism to postmodernism. Before the reader unfolds an immense historical canvas of almost 3,000 years, compressed into 500 of the most important dates. Opening this book, even a novice will be able to understand the complex structure of tangled events and realize that behind each new upheaval followed development.