History/Related Articles

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Root category

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• History

Key topics

•  Historiography: The study of historians and their methods and interpretive models. ^[e]
• Civilization: "The highest cultural grouping and the broadest level of cultural identity short of that which distinguishes humans from other species" (Samuel Huntington) ^[e]
•  Archaeology: The scientific study of past human cultures by means of the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data. ^[e]

Proposed articles

This list is not exhaustive but it must be limited to high priority articles which will broaden essential coverage of the subject to enhance the reader's understanding.

• Cultural history: Add brief definition or description
• History of science: Add brief definition or description

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Figures  Hammurabi: Ancient Babylonian king, most famous for a code of laws. [e] Hatshepsut: Add brief definition or description Ramesses II: Add brief definition or description  Cyrus the Great: (580-529 B.C.) First Archaemedid emperor; founded Persia by uniting two Iranian tribes, the Medes and the Persians. [e]  Alexander the Great: King of Macedon who conquered the Persian Empire in the late 4th century BCE. [e] Ashoka: Add brief definition or description Qin Shi Huang: Add brief definition or description  Julius Caesar: Roman general and politician who conquered Gaul, won a civil war, and was assassinated in 44BC. [e]  Augustus: Founder of the Roman Empire; first emperor. [e]  Charlemagne: (742-814) King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor, rising to rule over most of Europe during his lifetime. [e]  Genghis Khan: (c. 1162-1227) the founder and most successful ruler of the Mongolian Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history. [e]  Joan of Arc: A French peasant girl (ca. 1412 – 1431) who led her nation's armies during the Hundred Years' War and became a national heroine and saint. [e] Suleiman the Magnificent: Add brief definition or description  Elizabeth I: Queen of England (reigned 1559-1603). [e] Catherine the Great: Add brief definition or description  George Washington: (1732-1799) First U.S. President (from 1789 to 1797) and commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. [e]  Napoleon: Noted military commander, world historic figure and dictator of France from 1799 to 1814 [e] Simón Bolívar: Add brief definition or description  Abraham Lincoln: (1809-65) Sixteenth U.S. President (from 1861 to 1865) who prosecuted the American Civil War to reclaim 11 seceding states and abolish slavery; assassinated in 1865 near the beginning of his second term. Considered the greatest of all American presidents. [e] Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Add brief definition or description  Lenin: The nom de guerre of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 - 1924), the founder of the Russian communist state [e]  Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. [e]  Joseph Stalin: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. [e]  Adolf Hitler: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e]  Mao Zedong: (1893–1976) Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China; military theorist most associated with protracted war [e]  Nelson Mandela: Add brief definition or description Explorers  Marco Polo: Add brief definition or description Ibn Battuta: Add brief definition or description Zheng He: Add brief definition or description Christopher Columbus: Add brief definition or description  Vasco da Gama: Add brief definition or description  Ferdinand Magellan: Add brief definition or description  James Cook: Add brief definition or description  Roald Amundsen: Add brief definition or description George Mallory: Add brief definition or description Edmund Hillary: Add brief definition or description Regions History of Africa: Add brief definition or description History of Asia: Add brief definition or description History of East Asia: Add brief definition or description History of India: Add brief definition or description History of the Middle East: Add brief definition or description History of Europe: Add brief definition or description History of North America: Add brief definition or description History of Oceania: Add brief definition or description History of South America: Add brief definition or description Subjects History of art: Add brief definition or description History of science: Add brief definition or description  History of agriculture: Add brief definition or description History of architecture: Add brief definition or description History of film: Add brief definition or description History of literature: Add brief definition or description History of mathematics: Add brief definition or description History of medicine: Add brief definition or description History of music: Add brief definition or description History of technology: Add brief definition or description  Military history: Add brief definition or description

Eras Prehistory  Prehistory: Add brief definition or description Stone Age: Add brief definition or description Early human migrations: Add brief definition or description Neolithic Revolution: Add brief definition or description Ancient history Ancient history: Add brief definition or description  Bronze Age: Add brief definition or description  Ancient Egypt: Add brief definition or description Indus Valley Civilisation: Add brief definition or description Mesopotamia: Add brief definition or description Sumer: Add brief definition or description Assyria: Add brief definition or description Iron Age: Add brief definition or description  Ancient Greece: Add brief definition or description  Ancient Rome: Add brief definition or description Achaemenid Empire: Add brief definition or description Gupta Empire: Add brief definition or description Han dynasty: Add brief definition or description Silk Road: Add brief definition or description Pre-Columbian era: Add brief definition or description Andean civilizations: Add brief definition or description  Mesoamerica: Add brief definition or description Maya civilization: Add brief definition or description Post-classical Post-classical history: Add brief definition or description Aztecs: Add brief definition or description Inca Empire: Add brief definition or description Islamic Golden Age: Add brief definition or description  Middle Ages: Add brief definition or description  Black Death: Add brief definition or description Byzantine Empire: Add brief definition or description  Crusades: Add brief definition or description Holy Roman Empire: Add brief definition or description Viking Age: Add brief definition or description Mongol Empire: Add brief definition or description  Ottoman Empire: Add brief definition or description Tang dynasty: Add brief definition or description Modern Early modern period: Add brief definition or description  Renaissance: Add brief definition or description Age of Discovery: Add brief definition or description  Colonial America: Add brief definition or description  Reformation: Add brief definition or description Mughal Empire: Add brief definition or description  Scientific Revolution: Add brief definition or description  Enlightenment: Add brief definition or description Late modern Late modern period: Add brief definition or description  Industrial Revolution: Add brief definition or description  French Revolution: Add brief definition or description Abolitionism: Add brief definition or description Scramble for Africa: Add brief definition or description  British Empire: Add brief definition or description Decolonization: Add brief definition or description  World War I: Add brief definition or description  Soviet Union: Add brief definition or description  Great Depression: Add brief definition or description  World War II: Add brief definition or description  Cold War: Add brief definition or description Space Race: Add brief definition or description