Encyclopedia of world history

What is history?

Ancient world: From prehistoric times to AD 500

First humans

Making tools

Cave art

Life in the ice age

First farmers

First towns

Mesopotamia and Sumer

Ancient Egypt

Life and death in Egypt

Indus valley

Megalithic Europe

Minoans

Mycenaens

Ancient China

Phoenicians

Hebrews

Ancient America

Assyrians and Hittites

Babylonians

Ancient Greece

Greek culture

Alexander and the Persians

Celts

Romans

Roman society

African cultures

Empires of India

Middle ages: Kings and conflicts (500-1400)

Byzantium

Franks

Rise of Islam

American civilizations

Maya

Charlemagne

Khmer Empire

Vikings

Vikings abroad

Feudal Europe

Church and monastery

Knights and castles

Crusades

Medieval town

Mongol empire

Kublai Khan and China

Black death

African kingdoms

Japan's warlords

Hundred years' war

Pacific voyagers

Age of discovery: Explorers and empires (1400-1700)

Renaissance

Aztecs

Incas

Voyages of discovery

Spain and Portugal

African empires

Reformation

Ottomans and Safavids

Mughal empire

Ming China

Oceania explored

Thirty years' war

Tokugawa Japan

Dutch empire

Colonizing North America

English civil war

Slave trade

Louis XIV

Revolution and industry: World in turmoil (1700-1900)

Russian empire

Manchu China

Enlightenment

Agricultural revolution

Austria and Prussia

Birth of the United States

French revolution

Australia and New Zealand

Napoleon's wars

Canada

South American independence

Industrial revolution

Europe in turmoil

Exploring Africa

Europeans in Asia

British empire

American west

Civil war

Native Americans

Unification of Italy

Unification of Germany

Scramble for Africa

Modern world: Into a new millennium (1900-2000s)

Votes for women

World War I

Russian Revolution

Irish home rule

Roaring twenties

Great depression

Rise of fascism

Revolution in China

World War II

World at war

Horror and holocaust

India and Pakistan

Israel and Palestine

Cold war

Space race

New Africa

Fight for rights

Vietnam war

China's new power

Middle East in crisis

Asian industry

Cold war ends

One world

21st century world

World events

Index

Acknowledgments.