World History

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Chapter 1: The Study of History and the Rise of Civilization

  • Precursors to Civilization
  • The Study of History

Chapter 2: Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

  • The First Urban Civilizations
  • Akkadian Empire
  • Babylonia

Chapter 3: Early Civilizations

  • Ancient Societies on the Mediterranean
  • Ancient Africa
  • The Ancient Andes

Chapter 4: Ancient Egypt

  • Introduction to Ancient Egypt
  • The Old Kingdom
  • The Middle Kingdom
  • The New Kingdom
  • Ancient Egyptian Society
  • Nubia and Ancient Egypt

Chapter 5: Early Chinese Dynasties

  • The Mythical Period
  • The Shang Dynasty
  • The Zhou Dynasty
  • The Qin Dynasty
  • The Han Dynasty

Chapter 6: Early Civilizations in the Indian Subcontinent

  • The Indus River Valley Civilizations
  • Indo-European Civilizations
  • Religion in the Indian Subcontinent
  • The Persian Empire
  • The Maurya Empire
  • The Kushan Empire
  • The Gupta Empire

Chapter 7: Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World

  • Early Periods in Greek History
  • Sparta
  • The Persian Wars
  • Athens
  • Culture in Classical Greece
  • The Peloponnesian War
  • Macedonian Conquest

Chapter 8: The Roman World

  • The Etruscans
  • Early Rome
  • The Roman Republic
  • The Roman Empire
  • The Flavian Dynasty
  • Nerva-Antonine Dynasty
  • Christianity and the Late Roman Empire

Chapter 9: The Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantium: The New Rome
  • The Heraclian and Isaurian Dynasties
  • The Late Byzantine Empire

Chapter 10: The Rise and Spread of Islam

  • Pre-Islamic Arabia
  • Muhammad and the Rise of Islam
  • The Umayyad and Abbasid Empires

Chapter 11: The Middle Ages in Europe

  • The Germanic Tribes
  • The Catholic Church
  • The Carolingian Dynasty
  • The Holy Roman Empire
  • The Development of England
  • The Crusades
  • Medieval Life

Chapter 12: The Development of Russia

  • The Princes of Rus
  • The Grand Duchy of Moscow

Chapter 13: The Mongol Empire

  • The Mongol Empire
  • Genghis Khan
  • The Mongol Empire After Genghis Khan

Chapter 14: Chinese Dynasties

  • The Tang Dynasty
  • The Song Dynasty
  • The Yuan Dynasty
  • The Ming Dynasty

Chapter 15: African Civilizations

  • Early Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Central African Empires
  • West African Empires
  • East African Empires
  • Southern African States

Chapter 16: Civilizations in the Americas

  • South American Civilizations
  • The Inca
  • Early Civilizations of Mexico and Mesoamerica
  • The Maya
  • The Toltecs and the Aztecs
  • Native American Cultures in North America

Chapter 17: The Renaissance

  • The Renaissance
  • Italy During the Renaissance
  • Humanist Thought
  • Art in the Renaissance
  • Literature in the Renaissance
  • The Northern Renaissance

Chapter 18: The Rise of Nation-States

  • Nation-States and Sovereignty
  • Spain and Catholicism
  • England and Parliamentary Monarchy
  • France and Authoritarianism
  • War of Spanish Succession
  • The Modernization of Russia

Chapter 19: The Age of Enlightenment

  • The Enlightenment
  • The Age of Discovery
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • Enlightenment Thinkers

Chapter 20: The Protestant Reformation

  • Protestantism
  • The Thirty Years’ War

Chapter 21: Enlightened Despots

  • Frederick the Great and Prussia
  • The Holy Roman Empire
  • The Seven Years’ War
  • Catherine the Great and Russia
  • The Age of Enlightenment

Chapter 22: The French Revolution

  • France under Louis XV
  • Louis XVI’s Early Years
  • Constitutional Monarchy
  • The Reign of Terror
  • The Beginning of Revolution

Chapter 23: Napoleon

  • The French Empire
  • Napoleon’s Defeat
  • The 100 Days
  • The Transition to Dictatorship

Chapter 24: Post-Napoleonic Europe

  • The Congress of Vienna
  • France after 1815
  • Russia after Napoleon
  • German Unification

Chapter 25: The Industrial Revolution

  • Textile Manufacturing
  • Steam Power
  • Iron Making
  • Innovations in Transportation
  • Social Change
  • The Agricultural Revolution

Chapter 26: Change in the Americas

  • The South American Revolutions
  • Brazilian Independence
  • The Mexican War of Independence
  • North America

Chapter 27: European Imperialism in East Asia

  • The Last Chinese Dynasty
  • From the Edo Period to Meiji Restoration
  • in Japan
  • British India
  • Indochina

Chapter 28: The Scramble for Africa

  • The Berlin Conference
  • The Belgian Congo
  • France in Africa
  • Africa and the United Kingdom
  • German Imperalism
  • The Independent African States

Chapter 29: World War I

  • The Century of Peace
  • The Coming of War
  • Events of World War I
  • The End of World War I
  • The Treaty of Versailles
  • The First Modern War

Chapter 30: The Interwar Period

  • Rebuilding Europe
  • The Russian Revolution
  • The Great Depression
  • The Rise of Fascism
  • Hitler and the Third Reich

Chapter 31: World War II

  • Axis Powers
  • The Allied Powers
  • Hostilities Commence
  • The European Front
  • The Pacific War
  • The Allies Gain Ground
  • The End of the War
  • Impact of War World II

Chapter 32: The Cold War

  • The Beginning of the Cold War
  • Life in the USSR
  • Containment
  • Competition between East and West
  • Crisis Points of the Cold War

Chapter 33: Post-Colonial Africa

  • Independence in the Maghreb
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Zimbabwe
  • South Africa
  • Egypt

Chapter 34: The Middle East after the Ottoman Empire

  • The Ottoman Empire
  • Partition of the Ottoman Empire
  • Israel and Palestine
  • The Monarchies of the Middle East
  • Iran
  • Afghanistan

Chapter 35: East Asia after World War II

  • Communist China
  • The Koreas
  • The Indian Subcontinent
  • Indochina
  • Japanese Recovery

Chapter 36: South America and Latin America in the Cold War

  • Mexico
  • Argentina
  • Chile
  • Brazil
  • Conflict Across Latin America

Chapter 37: The Long Decade (1989-2001)

  • European Unification
  • Fall of the Soviet Union
  • Apartheid Repealed
  • The Yugoslav War
  • Globalization
  • The Rwandan Genocide

Chapter 38: The 21st Century

  • Europe in the 21st Century
  • East Asia in the 21st Century
  • Africa in the 21st Century
  • The Americas in the 21st Century
  • Global Concerns
  • The Middle East and North Africa in the 21st Century

Chapter 38: The 21st Century

Chapter 37: The Long Decade (1989-2001)

Chapter 36: South America and Latin America in the Cold War