5000 concepts for Europe: update 2018/02/24

Below please find the over 300 suggestions received so far for my proposal of a “5000 concepts for Europe” book. Respect to the previous updates, the biggest news seem to be lots of suggestions for novels, and about Eastern Europe.

Before checking the suggestions…

  • please share the invitation to suggest “5000 concepts that every European should know” as much as you can. The more DIFFERENT suggestions I receive, the better, and more useful the book will be!
  • to send your own suggestions, check the bottom of this page
  • to know how to support this project, please read its FAQ

As of today, the suggestions for 5000 Concepts for Europe are…

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  • SEVEN VOTES:
  • Enlightenment
  • FIVE VOTES:
  • Gdpr (General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Iron Curtain
  • Marxism
  • Net Neutrality
  • FOUR VOTES:
  • Brexit
  • Charles De Gaulle
  • Circular Economy
  • Council Of Europe
  • Digital Single Market
  • Feminism
  • Gender Parity
  • If This Is A Man (Novel)
  • Internet Of Things
  • Isaac Newton
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Reformation
  • Religious Freedom
  • Scouting
  • THREE VOTES:
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Algorithm
  • Angela Merkel
  • Aristotles
  • Balkans
  • Bloody Sunday
  • Carbon Capture And Storage
  • Charlemagne
  • Degrowth
  • Equal Opportunities
  • French Revolution
  • Impressionism
  • Jeanne D’arc
  • Kosovo
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Lisbon Treaty
  • Maastricht Treaty
  • Magna Charta
  • Nazism
  • Open Hardware
  • Perestrojka
  • Privacy
  • Programmed Obsolescence
  • Roman Empire
  • Russian Revolution
  • Sdg: Sustainable Development Goals
  • Sinn Fein
  • Smart Cities
  • Solidarity
  • Srebrenica Massacre
  • Stalin
  • Tolerance
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Winston Churchill
  • World War Ii
  • TWO VOTES:
  • Alexander The Great
  • Algarve
  • Balkan Wars
  • Battle Of Britain
  • Battle Of Gaugamela
  • Battle Of Marathon
  • Battle Of Stalingrad
  • Belarus
  • Big Data
  • Black Death
  • Blockchain
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Bretton Woods
  • Bulgaria
  • Christian Monasticism
  • Christianity
  • Communism
  • Copyright
  • Crime And Punishment (Novel)
  • D-Day
  • Digital Sovereignty
  • Equality
  • Euro
  • European Constitution
  • European Digital Agenda
  • Family
  • Fascism
  • File Formats
  • Free Software
  • Frontex
  • Functional Analphabetism
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Gnu/Linux
  • Good Friday Agreement
  • Holocaust
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Indoeuropeans
  • Islam
  • Konzentrazion Lager
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Middle Ages
  • Munich Agreement
  • Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
  • Nineteen-Eightyfour (Novel)
  • Numeracy
  • Olof Palme
  • Open Standards
  • Otto Von Bismarck
  • Peer Production
  • Poland
  • Potsdam Conference
  • Public Domain
  • Quantitative Easing
  • Reconquista
  • Renaissance
  • Romanticism
  • Seven Years War
  • Siege Of OrléAns
  • Social Security
  • Spanish Civil War
  • The Lord Of The Rings (Novel)
  • The Trial (Novel)
  • Third Sector
  • Thirty Years' War
  • Unesco
  • Weimar Republic
  • Welfare State
  • World War I
  • ONE VOTE:
  • Acceptance
  • Agincourt
  • Alexander Dubcek
  • All Quiet On The Western Front (Novel)
  • Althing (Icelandic Parliament
  • Altiero Spinelli
  • Anschluss (Annexing Of Austria)
  • Anti-Elitarian
  • Armand De Richelieu
  • Armenian Genocide
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Atheism
  • Austria
  • Barbarian Invasions
  • Battle Of Blenheim
  • Battle Of Hastings
  • Battle Of Poitiers
  • Battle Of Pultowa
  • Battle Of Sadowa
  • Battle Of The Catalaunian Fields
  • Battle Of The Downs
  • Battle Of The Metaurus
  • Battle Of Vukovar
  • Beatles
  • Bento Spinoza
  • Bosnian War
  • Boudicca
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Catherine The Great
  • Celts
  • Central Powers (Vierbund)
  • Charles V
  • Cimabue
  • Climate Change
  • Cold War
  • Comecon
  • Comintern
  • Commons
  • Congress Of Berlin (1878)
  • Consumerism
  • Copernicus
  • Creative Commons
  • Croatia
  • Croatian War Of Independence
  • Cyprus
  • Darwinism
  • Direct Democracy
  • Distributed Networks
  • Dna
  • Doctor Faustus (Novel)
  • Donbass
  • Dordogne Valley
  • Drinking Tea Or Coffee
  • Duomo Di Milano
  • E-Waste
  • Epistemology
  • Erna Solberg
  • Europe
  • European Central Bank
  • European Coal And Steel Community
  • European Commission
  • European Economic Area
  • European Economic Community
  • European Free Trade Association
  • European Parliament
  • European Sovereign-Debt Crisis
  • European Union
  • Eurozone
  • Existentialism (Philosophy)
  • Fado
  • Falklands War
  • Feudalism
  • First Bulgarian Empire
  • First English Civil War
  • First Partition Of Poland
  • Force De Frappe
  • Fortress Europe
  • Francisco Franco
  • Francisco Goya
  • Francois Mitterrand
  • Franjo TuđMan
  • Frankish Empire
  • Freedom
  • Freedom Of Panorama
  • Friedrich Hegel
  • Front National
  • Gay Rights
  • German Revolution (1918–19)
  • Germany
  • Gibraltar
  • Glasnost
  • Godafoss
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • Grand Place Bruxelles
  • Greater Romania
  • Greater Serbia
  • Hanseatic League
  • Hard Working
  • Hastings
  • Humanism
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Immigration
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Irish Republican Army
  • Johannes Gutenberg
  • Josef Stalin
  • Journey To The End Of The Night (Novel)
  • Judaism
  • Julius Caesar
  • Justice
  • Kalmar Union
  • Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
  • Konrad Adenauer
  • Lenin
  • Literature
  • Lithuania
  • Market Economy
  • Martin Luther
  • Meteora
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Millet System (Ottoman Empire)
  • Moldavia
  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
  • Mont Saint-Michel
  • Music And Dancing
  • Napoleonic Wars
  • Neoplatonism
  • Nicolae Ceausescu
  • Nineteen-Eigthyfour (Novel)
  • Nuremberg Trial
  • October Revolution
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • Operation Allied Force (Yugoslavia)
  • Operation Barbarossa
  • Orphan Works
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Overfishing
  • Pact Of Steel
  • Paris Peace Treaties Of 1947
  • Patents
  • Pax Romana
  • Peloponnesian War
  • Pericles
  • Philantrophy
  • Philosophy
  • Platonism (Philosophy)
  • Polish Golden Age
  • Portugal
  • Prague Spring
  • Raoul Wallenberg
  • Religion
  • René Descartes
  • Resilience
  • Right To Be Forgotten
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Rome Treaty
  • Rule Of Saint Benedict
  • Rule Of St Basil
  • Russia
  • Russian Empire
  • Sack Of Rome (1527)
  • Sagrada Familia
  • Scandinavian Monetary Union
  • Schengen Agreement
  • Scientific Materialism
  • Serbia
  • Siege Of Dubrovnik
  • Slobodan MilošEvić
  • Slovakia
  • Social Enterprise
  • Socialism
  • Socialism With A Human Face
  • Socratic Method
  • Solidarnosc
  • Soviet Union
  • Sweden
  • Swedish Empire
  • Switzerland
  • Ten-Day War (Yugoslavia)
  • Termodynamics
  • The Adventures Of Pinocchio (Novel)
  • The Cotswolds
  • The Man Without Qualities (Novel)
  • The Name Of The Rose (Novel)
  • The Three Musketeers (Novel)
  • The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Novel)
  • Third Reich
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Thomism (Philosophy)
  • Tolkien
  • Treaty Of Neuilly-Sur-Seine
  • Treaty Of Trianon
  • Treaty Of Versailles
  • Tripartite Pact
  • Trotskji
  • Vatican City
  • Vladimir Putin
  • Voltaire
  • Waterloo
  • Waterloo (Battle)
  • Xenophobia
  • Yalta (Conference)
  • Yugoslav Wars
  • “Everything In Moderation, Including Moderation.” - Oscar Wilde

The best way to contribute YOUR suggestions:

First of all, remember that you can do as many suggestions you want, including concepts already present in this list! Personally, I suggest to do it as follows. You will be surprised to see how quick (and fun!!) it can be:

  • consider all the GENERAL topics you care about and/or know well (e.g.: modern art, Danish politics, geography, sci-fi, medioeval history, software, whatever, really…)
  • for each topic, figure out what you consider the most important concepts in that field
  • enter all those concepts in the “5000 Concepts for Europe” form. If you thought of more than 5 concepts, just reload the form until you are done
  • repeat for the next topic