The prosperity of civilizations has long fascinated historians, but a crucial factor often overlooked is the ecological environment. This video delves into why only Japan and Western Europe were ...

How did Europe move from a collection of impoverished city states and kingdoms to a prosperous state of affairs? Europeans ...

Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present. By combining a wide geographical compass with a relatively short ...

For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it should. Some 750 million people live on ...

WESTERN EUROPE Older than the Rothschilds, more versatile than the Barings or the Hambros, Europe's Warburg-family banking dynasty has prospered ever since it started changing money in 1559.

Archaeology Discovery of partially fossilized face belongs to oldest human ancestor in Western Europe, new study says Researchers hope the discovery will provide some new insights about the first ...

WESTERN EUROPE The widening prosperity of Western Europe has altered not only the Continent's face but its mentality as well. This is nowhere truer than in the field of economics, where Europe ...

Updated at 1:13 p.m. ET on May 27, 2025 The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions.

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the Homo antecessor. Experts have found Homo antecessor remains that are around 850,000 years old.

Some parts of Western Europe were starting to cool off as the extreme heat that has gripped the continent moved east. transcript “Yes, this year is the hardest year I’ve seen since 15 years I ...