Chapters

  1. History’s Story
  2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C.
  3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135
  4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146
  5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300
  6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453
  7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000
  8. The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
  9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
  10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
  11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
  12. The Westerner’s Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
  13. Rejections of Democracy: The InterWar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
  14. A World Divided: The Cold War, 1945 to 1993
  15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1991 to the Present
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Links for Chapter 2
History’s Story

On Early Humans

Ötzi Museum: the Iceman: site of the archeological museum with the Neolithic mummy.

How Beer Gave us Civilization: readable summary of an academic paper.

Links to further sources on race and racism.

 

On the Ancient Middle East

Mesopotamian History: The Basics: chronology, maps, deities.

The Middle East: although part of a website that deals in psychics and magic, there are many pages with useful pictures and brief information on many ancient sites.

Livius: Articles on Ancient History: good informative short pieces on many subjects.

 

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