Europe

One American Student’s Europe

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/graphics/ref_maps/political/pdf/europe.pdf

Europe.pdf

CIA “bulls eye” map of Europe, Cold War era

Upper Paleo-, Meso-, and Neo-lithic Cave Art in Europe ~30,000 - 15,000 BC

Chauvet, FranceLions, 32,000 BP

Chauvet

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

a film by Werner Herzog

Peche Merle, France25,000 BC

Lascaux, France15,000 BC

Altamira, SpainBison, 16,000 BC

Venus of Willendorf, Austria26,000 BP

World GNI, per capita, 2005

World GDP, 2005

Venice was at the center of World economy in 1500, which consisted primarily of Mediterranean and Western European water routes and via the Levant ports into Asia.

By 1775, European Colonialism gripped the globe like an octopus. This map shows English, Dutch Spanish, Portuguese and French trade networks, identifiable by their point of origin. Note the prominence of the British network, with London as the center of the world.

British & FrenchEmpires

Spanish & Portuguese,

Dutch Empires

Odin & Thor

Start here Monday

Proto-Indo-European Languages source area 5,000-2,000 BC

Celts, 3rd century BC

Welsh, a Celtic language

Welsh Weather

World History of Religion

NATO

European Union,

2008

2011

2015

Euro-land and The Euro

European National Union, 2015

G 8 7

(Group of 8 of the World’s Richest Industrialized Countries)

Canada European Union France Germany Italy Japan Russia United Kingdom United States

G 20Group of 20 Finance Ministers and

Central Bank Governors from 20 Countries

1. G7

plus

2. Turkey

3. Argentina

4. Brazil

5. Mexico

6. China

7. South Korea

8. India

9. Indonesia

10. Saudi Arabia

11. Australia

12. South Africa

13. Australia