Hi, this is Matt Baker.
Today I'm going to go through our new timeline of European history chart.
As you can see, this new version was designed to match the style of our timeline of world history, but unlike the world history one, which starts at 3300 BCE, the Europe one starts at 843 CE.
Now, obviously humans were living in Europe long before 843, but when it comes to countries that we know today, such as England, France, Germany, and Russia, the ninth century is a pretty good place to start.
If you want to get a copy of this new chart as a poster, you can do so right now by heading over to usefulcharts.com, or by clicking the link in the description or pinned comments.
Okay, we've got a lot of ground to cover.
So let's get to it.
At the start of the ninth century, there were really only three highly developed civilizations in Europe, the Islamic Emirate of Cordoba in Spain, the Empire of Charlemagne, Charlemagne being the guy who claimed to have resurrected the Roman Empire in the West, and the Byzantine Empire, which was what remained of the Roman Empire in the East.
Everything else was under the rule of either petty kings or local chieftains.
For example, England at the time was divided into a bunch of different Anglo Saxon kingdoms, and in what is today Ukraine and Russia, the East Slavs had arrived, but had not yet created a formal state.
