History of Europe: Introduction; CH:2 The French Revolution: GenesisNature and Consequences; CH:3 Napoleonic Era and Aftermath; CH:5 Capitalist Industrialization andSocio-Economic Transformation in Europe; CH:6 Revolutions of 1905 and theBolshevik Revolution of 1917; CH:7 World War I; CH:8 Rise of Fascism and Nazism; CH:9 Origins of the Second World War; Bibliography; Index

History of Europe describes the history of humans inhabiting the European continent since it was first populated in prehistoric times to present, with the first human settlement between 45,000 and 25,000 BC. Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometers (3,930,000 sq mi) or 2% of the Earths surface and about 6.8% of its land area. The history of Europe covers the peoples inhabiting Europe from prehistory to the present. The period known as classical antiquity began with the emergence of the city-states of ancient Greece.