World History

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