World History

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Prehistory

A cave painting in Lascaux, France depicting aurochs, the wild ancestor of today's domesticated cattle. The last one died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland.

The Origins of Man

Prehistoric Peoples

Social and Human Evolution

Ancient History

From the advent of writing to the sack of Rome in 476 BC.

A diagram showing Egypt's pyramid complex in Giza as it correlates with the stars in the constellation Orion. Even the Nile River to the left seems to line up with the Milky Way. Other similarities have been discovered in the ruins of Angkor Wat and of the Anasazi.

General Resources

• Anatolia -- Hittites, Çatalhöyük, Phrygia, Lydia and other cultures and places in modern day Turkey

• China -- From the Xia Dynasty through the Han Dynasty.

• Egypt

• Greece

• Mesopotamia -- The "land between the rivers" is now called Iraq.

Babylonia

Babylonian/Assyrian Civilizations

Sumer

• Persia -- Just as Istanbul was once Constantinople, Iran was once Persia.

• Phoenicia The Mediterranean thalassocracy based in modern day Lebanon.

• Rome

Medieval History

Flagellants traveled from town to town during the Plague, practicing self-mutilation in an effort to atone for the sins of man. While trying to prevent Black Death from occurring, they actually helped it spread by carrying disease-infested fleas into new areas.

From the sack of Rome in 476 BC to: 1453, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and the end of the Hundred Years War; or 1455, when the printing press was invented; or the Italian Renaissance; or 1492, when Columbus thought he reached India and the Muslim conquest of Spain.

• Aztecs

• The Black Death

• Byzantine Empire

• Europe in the Middle Ages

Chivalry

Charlemagne

• Islamic Empire

• Mongol Empire

• Roman Catholic Church

The Crusades

Spanish Inquiistion

• Vikings

Viking Civilization

Modern History

From the Renaissance of the 15^th Century to the present.

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demonstrating the durability of Russian shoes to the UN while defending his country's dominant influence in Eastern Europe on 12 October 1960.

Age of Exploration

The Cold War

Communism

Enlightenment

Fascism

The Holocaust

Imperialism/Colonialism

Inca Empire

Industrial Revolution

Napoleon

Protestant Reformation

Renaissance

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

History by Country

The library has resources specific to many other countries. Below are the countries with large collections and their call numbers.

View of San Marino, the world's oldest sovereign state. According to local account, the republic was founded in 301 by a Christian stonemason fleeing the religious persecution of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. San Marino is landlocked within Italy, just like another small sovereignty, Vacitan City.

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