The Times History of the World

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Richard Overy. The Times History of the World

THE TIMES. HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Richard Overy

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INTRODUCTION ‘The State of the World’

ONE HUMAN ORIGINS AND EARLY CULTURES

FROM c. 5 MILLION YEARS AGO. HUMAN ORIGINS

FROM c. 200,000 YEARS AGO. THE SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS

20,000 TO 10,000 BC. THE ICE AGE WORLD

8000 TO 4000 BC. FROM HUNTING TO FARMING: THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE

10,000 TO 4000 BC. BEFORE THE FIRST CITIES: SOUTHWEST ASIA

7000 TO 2000 BC. EARLY EUROPE: THE COLONIZATION OF A CONTINENT

TO 900 BC. AFRICAN PEOPLES AND CULTURES

TO 300 BC. PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS

TO 500 BC. SOUTHEAST ASIA BEFORE CIVILIZATION

TO 1770. AUSTRALIA

TO THE 1700S. MELANESIA AND POLYNESIA

TWO THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS

3500 TO 1500 BC. THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION IN THE EURASIAN WORLD

c. 3500 TO 1600 BC. THE EARLY EMPIRES OF. MESOPOTAMIA

c. 3100–1000 BC. ANCIENT EGYPT

1600–1000 BC. THE NEAR EAST

300 BC TO AD 1300. PEOPLES OF SOUTH AMERICA AND. THE CARIBBEAN

300 BC TO AD 1300. PEOPLES OF MESOAMERICA

300 BC TO AD 1300. PEOPLES OF EARLY NORTH. AMERICA

TO 475 BC. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION

TO 1392. KOREA

TO 500 BC. THE BEGINNINGS OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION

c. 3000 TO 950 BC. MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATIONS

THREE THE CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS OF EURASIA

550 BC TO AD 752. THE COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL BONDS OF EURASIA

1000–539 BC. THE NEAR EAST

550 BC TO AD 637. THE EMPIRES OF PERSIA

800 TO 336 BC. THE SPREAD OF GREEK. CIVILIZATION

336 TO 30 BC. THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

475 BC TO AD 220. THE UNIFICATION OF CHINA

220 TO 618. CHINA AND EAST ASIA

500 BC TO AD 550. INDIA: THE FIRST EMPIRES

2300 TO 50 BC. THE PEOPLES OF NORTHERN. EUROPE

900 BC–AD 700. AFRICA

TO 31 BC. THE EXPANSION OF ROMAN POWER

31 BC TO AD 235. THE HEIGHT OF ROMAN POWER

AD 235 TO 565. FROM ROME TO BYZANTIUM

TO AD 600. THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY

FOUR THE WORLD OF DIVIDED REGIONS

341 TO 597. GERMANIC SETTLEMENT IN. WESTERN EUROPE

TO AD 600. PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA

FROM AD 632. THE SPREAD OF ISLAM

600 TO 1500. THE EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY

AD 70 TO 1800. THE JEWISH DIASPORA

482 TO 814. THE RISE OF THE FRANKISH KINGDOM

793 TO 1000. MAGYARS, SARACENS AND VIKINGS IN 9TH AND 10TH CENTURY EUROPE

900 TO 1050. NORTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE

1095 TO 1492. CRUSADING IN EUROPE FROM THE 11TH TO THE 15TH CENTURY

610 TO 1453. THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

882 TO 1242. THE FIRST RUSSIAN STATE: KIEVAN RUSSIA

962 TO 1250. THE GERMAN EMPIRE AND THE PAPACY

1154 TO 1314. MONARCHY IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE

c. 950 TO 1150. ECONOMIC GROWTH IN EUROPE

TO 1477. IMPERIAL JAPAN AND THE EARLY SHOGUNATES

618 TO 1279. CHINESE CIVILIZATION FROM THE T’ANG TO THE SUNG

600 TO 1501. IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA

1206 TO 1405. THE MONGOL EMPIRE

550 TO 1206. INDIA: THE EMERGENCE OF TEMPLE KINGDOMS

1206 TO 1526. INDIA: THE DELHI SULTANATE

500 BC TO AD 1511. THE EARLY CIVILIZATIONS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

800 TO 1100. THE MUSLIM WORLD

1100 TO 1350. THE MUSLIM WORLD

1000 TO 1500. THE EMERGENCE OF STATES IN AFRICA

1281 TO 1522. THE RISE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

1252 TO 1381. THE CRISIS OF THE 14TH CENTURY IN EUROPE

1300 TO 1400. EUROPEAN STATES IN THE 14TH CENTURY

c. 1300 TO 1535. SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF EUROPEAN CONQUEST

c. 1300 TO 1520. MESOAMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ON THE EVE OF EUROPEAN CONQUEST

1450 TO c. 1600. THE RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STATE IN EUROPE

FIVE THE WORLD OF THE EMERGING WEST

c. 1500. THE WORLD ON THE EVE OF EUROPEAN EXPANSION

1487 TO 1780. EUROPEAN VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY

1500 TO 1700. EXPANSION OF THE TRADING EMPIRES

1462 TO 1815. RUSSIAN EXPANSION IN EUROPE AND ASIA

1500 TO 1810. NORTH AMERICA

1500 TO 1825. LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

1500 TO 1800. TRADE AND EMPIRE IN AFRICA

1368 TO 1644. CHINA AT THE TIME OF THE MING DYNASTY

1522 TO 1800. OTTOMAN TURKEY

1501 TO 1906. IRAN FROM THE SAFAVIDS TO THE QAJARS

1526 TO 1803. MUGHAL INDIA AND THE GROWTH OF BRITISH POWER

1644 TO 1839. CHINA UNDER THE CH’ING DYNASTY

1392 TO 1953. KOREA

1477 TO 1868. JAPAN UNDER THE SHOGUNATE

1511 TO 1826. SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS

1500 TO 1815. THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY: AGRICULTURE AND SOCIETY

1550 TO 1775. THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY: TRADE AND INDUSTRY

1517 TO 1670. REFORMATION AND CATHOLIC REFORMATION

1500 TO 1688. EUROPE: THE STATE AND ITS OPPONENTS

1494 TO 1797. THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

1523 TO 1721. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BALTIC

1493 TO 1806. THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

1648 TO 1715. THE ASCENDANCY OF FRANCE

1713 TO 1815. THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE

1648 TO 1795. THE AGE OF PARTITION: EASTERN EUROPE

c. 1775. THE EMERGING GLOBAL ECONOMY

1760 TO 1820. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGINS: GREAT BRITAIN

1773 TO 1814. THE AGE OF REVOLT

1789 TO 1797. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

1799 TO 1815. NAPOLEON AND THE RESHAPING OF EUROPE

SIX THE AGE OF EUROPEAN DOMINANCE

1815 TO 1914. POPULATION GROWTH AND MOVEMENTS

1815 TO 1870. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EUROPE

1800 TO 1914. THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

1815 TO 1871. GERMANY AND ITALY: THE STRUGGLES FOR UNIFICATION

1783 TO 1890. THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES: WESTWARD EXPANSION

1800 TO 1880. THE MARKET REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES

1820 TO 1877. SLAVERY, CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION

1776 TO 1924. THE UNITED STATES: A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS

SINCE 1810. CANADA

1810 TO 1910. LATIN AMERICA: INDEPENDENCE AND NATIONAL GROWTH

1800 TO 1923. THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

1815 TO 1917. THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE:EXPANSION AND MODERNIZATION

1839 TO 1911. THE COLLAPSE OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE

1805 TO 1935. INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE

SINCE 1770. AUSTRALIA

SINCE 1800. NEW ZEALAND

1800 TO 1880. AFRICA BEFORE THE PARTITION BY THE EUROPEAN POWERS

1880 TO 1913. THE PARTITION OF AFRICA

1868 TO 1922. THE EXPANSION AND MODERNIZATION OF JAPAN

1815 TO 1914. EUROPEAN COLONIAL EMPIRES

1881 TO 1917. THE ANTI-WESTERN REACTION

1878 TO 1914. EUROPEAN RIVALRIES AND ALLIANCES

1870 TO 1914. THE FORMATION OF A WORLD ECONOMY

1914 TO 1918. THE FIRST WORLD WAR

SEVEN THE AGE OF GLOBAL CIVILIZATION

1917 TO 1929. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

1919 TO 1941. IMPERIALISM AND NATIONALISM

1912 TO 1949. THE CHINESE REVOLUTION

1919 TO 1934. EUROPEAN POLITICAL PROBLEMS

1929 TO 1939. THE GREAT DEPRESSION

1931 TO 1941. THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1941 TO 1945. THE WAR IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

1941 TO 1945. THE EUROPEAN WAR

1919 TO 1953. RACISM AND DEPORTATIONS

1945 TO 1973. EUROPE

1945 TO 1991. THE COLD WAR

SINCE 1939. RETREAT FROM EMPIRE

SINCE 1945. JAPAN AND EAST ASIA

SINCE 1949. CHINA UNDER COMMUNISM

1945 TO 1975. SOUTHEAST ASIA’S LONG WAR

SINCE 1975. SOUTHEAST ASIA

SINCE 1947. SOUTH ASIA: INDEPENDENCE AND CONFLICT

1957 TO 1989. AFRICA

SINCE 1989. AFRICAN DEMOCRATIZATION

SINCE 1947. PALESTINE, ZIONISM AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

SINCE 1945. NATIONALISM, SECULARISM AND ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE EAST

SINCE 1910. SOUTH AMERICA: SEARCH FOR STABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

SINCE 1910. MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

SINCE 1939. THE UNITED STATES: THE AGE OF ABUNDANCE

SINCE 1945. THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER

SINCE 1929. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOVIET UNION AND RUSSIA

SINCE 1973. EUROPE

SINCE 1991. EUROPE’S CIVIL WARS

SINCE 1945. WARFARE

SINCE 1945. WORLD TERRORISM

1979 TO 2007. IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: THE ARC OF INSTABILITY

THE WORLD IN THE 21ST CENTURY

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

COMMUNICATIONS IN THE MODERN AGE

THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN WORLD HISTORY

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