Year
Era & Media
Spain
England
France
Germany
Italy
Russia
500: "Why/How is most of the Western world Christian?"
Fall of the Roman Empire , Spread of Christianity : Hun (Burgess); St. Patrick, the Irish Legend; A Child's History of England (Churchill)
Reccared I
Saint Patrick
Clovis I
Attila the Hun
Odoacer
750
Viking Age : The Vikings
File:Tariq ibn Ziyad.JPG Tariq ibn Ziyad
Alfred the Great
Charlemagne
Charlemagne
Charlemagne
Rurik
1000
High Middle Ages : El Cid; The War Lord
Abd-ar-Rahman II
William the Conqueror
Peter Abelard
Hildegard of Bingen
Pope Urban II
Vladimir I
1100s
Crusades : Kingdom of Heaven; Ivanhoe (Scott); The Lion in Winter
El Cid
Richard the Lionhearted
Philip II of France
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Giotto di Bondone
Yaroslav I the Wise
1200s
Late Middle Ages , Mongol invasions : Pillars of the Earth; Braveheart; Here be Dragons
Alfonso VIII
William Wallace
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Albertus Magnus
Marco Polo
File:Monkh statue.JPG Möngke Khan
1300s
Black Plague : World Without End; A Knight's Tale; Katherine (novel)
Alfonso XI
Geoffrey Chaucer
Philip IV of France
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Dante Alighieri
Alexander Nevsky
1400s: "Why/How did Europe come to make settlements in the Americas?"
Discovery of the Americas : 1492; The Other Boleyn Girl; The Messenger; The Passion of Joan of Arc; Magellan ; The Sunne in Splendour
Isabella I of Castile
Henry VIII
Joan of Arc
Johannes Gutenberg
Christopher Columbus
Dmitry Donskoy
1500: "Why is Christianity split into Catholics and Protestants?"
Protestant Reformation : Elizabeth; Luther
Hernán Cortés
Elizabeth I
Catherine de' Medici
Martin Luther
Leonardo da Vinci
Ivan III
1550: "Why is the international language English (instead of Spanish)?"
Protestant Reformation : Agony & the Ecstasy; Dangerous Beauty
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Shakespeare
Louis XIV
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Michelangelo
Ivan the Terrible
1600: "Why are most Western countries democratic?"
Age of Enlightenment : Cromwell; The Last Valley
Diego Velázquez
Oliver Cromwell
Cardinal Richelieu
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Michael Romanov
1650: "Why has rationality replaced religion in Western philosophy?"
Age of Enlightenment : Don Quixote; Captain Blood; The Girl with a Peal Earring; Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Miguel de Cervantes
Blackbeard
René Descartes
Bach
Artemisia Gentileschi
Peter the Great
1700: "How did Europe come to colonize the rest of the world?"
Industrial Revolution : Barry Lyndon; Tale of Two Cities; Amadeus; Scarlett Empress; Catherine the Great; Four Seasons
Lope de Vega
Isaac Newton
Maximilien Robespierre
Mozart
Antonio Vivaldi
Catherine the Great
1750: "Why are most Western countries capitalist?"
Industrial Revolution : Goya's Ghosts; Madness of King George; Marie Antoinette; Immortal Beloved; Cassanova; Symphony No.9; (Yemelyan Pugachev )
Francisco Goya
Adam Smith
Marie Antoinette
Beethoven
Giacomo Casanova
Yekaterina Dashkova
1800: "Why is the international language English (instead of French)?"
European Imperialism : Sorcerer's Apprentice; The Barber of Seville
Rosalía de Castro
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Napoleon
Johann von Goethe
Gioachino Rossini
Leo Tolstoy
1850: "How do we know about evolution?"
European Imperialism : Nutcracker; War & Peace; How Green Was My Valley; Great Train Robbery; Waterloo; (Mikhail Glinka ), (Karl Briullov )
Charles Darwin
Alexandre Dumas
Karl Marx
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Alexander Pushkin
1875: "Why haven't there been more plagues lately?"
European Imperialism : (Peter Tchaikovsky )
Benito Pérez Galdós
Queen Victoria
Louis Pasteur
Otto von Bismark
Camillo di Cavour
Anna Pavlova