What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carter so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions–and many more–in 200 simple and accessible essays.
From the 100 Years War to the Gulf Wars, and from the wisdom of Aristotle to the Civil Rights movement, this book distills the major events in human history into easily digestible chunks. Each essay is accompanied by an image–or a clear diagram to illustrate complex ideas–and will plug the gaps in your knowledge of the most important eras, movements and events in the history of humankind. World History in Minutes is the perfect introduction to this expansive subject.
Contents include: Neanderthals, Babylonians, Attilla the Hun, Abyssinian Empire, Magna Carta, Black Death, Inca, Henry VIII Reformation, Ulster Plantations, Rousseau and the Enlightenment, Declaration of Independence, French Revolution, Tonga Civil War, Universal Suffrage, Spanish Influenza, Great Depression, Pearl Harbour, The Space Age, Civil Rights, Environmentalism, Oligarchs and Tiger Economies.
Author(s): Tat Wood
Publisher: Quercus
Year: 2015
Language: English
Commentary: World History in Minutes 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
Pages: 426
Tags: World History in Minutes, 200 Key Concepts, Explained in an Instant
Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Map
Introduction
PREHISTORY
Lucy and her kin
Tools, art and belief
Out of Africa
Neanderthals
Ice ages
Oceania
Neolithic expansion
Bronze and iron
FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Unified Egypt
Judaism
Minoan Crete
Phoenicians
Akhenaten
Mesoamerican civilizations
Assyria
Iron
THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Roman Republic
Buddhism
Thermopylae
Warring States Era
Lao Tzu
Plato and Aristotle
Confucianism and the bureaucratic state
Alexander the Great
Ashoka
Carthage and the Punic Wars
Celts
Great Wall of China
Julius Caesar
The Fall of Egypt
The Pax Romana
Aksumite empire
Constantine
Sassanian empire
Abyssinian empire
Alaric
THE MIDDLE AGES
Shinto
Silk Road
St Augustine
Attilla the Hun
Islam
An Lushan Rebellion
Abbasid caliphate
Native Americans
Charlemagne
Saxons
Haroun al-Rashid
Vikings and Rus
La Conviviencia
Lindisfarne Gospels
Twelver Shi’ism
Normans
Schism
Inca
The Crusades
Genghis Khan and the Mongols
Magna Carta
Mamluks
Ottoman empire
Tamburlaine
Ming
Hundred Years’ War
Black Death
Habsburgs
Wars of the Roses
THE RENAISSANCE
Printing
The Medici
Fall of Constantinople
Navigation
Ferdinand and Isabella
Safavid Persia
Conquistadors
Martin Luther
Mughals
Reformation in England
Battle of Lepanto
Nova of 1572
Tupac Amaru
Missionaries
Ivan the Terrible
Ulster Plantations
Thirty Years’ War
Dutch East India Company (VOC)
THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
‘Triangle Trade’
Puritanism
Queen Christina
Coffee houses
Sakoku Edict
Louis XIV
Peter the Great
Newcomen’s atmospheric engine
Ashanti empire
South Sea Bubble
Nadir Shah
Treaty of Constantinople
Steel
Seven Years’ War
Catherine the Great
Lisbon earthquake
House of Saud
Enlightenment
Factories
The Declaration of Independence
The Agrarian Revolution
Cook and Australia
Tipu Sultan
Thailand
Maratha wars
Northwest Indian Wars
The French Revolution
Chemistry
The Terror
Napoleon in Egypt
Irish rebellion
Emperor Napoleon
Haitian Revolution
Abolitionists
Louisiana Purchase
Gauchos
Waterloo
Steam
Simón Boíivar
Greek independence
Trail of Tears
Telegraphy
THE AGE OF EMPIRES
Gold rushes
Opium Wars
Tonga Civil War
Universal suffrage
1848
Crimean War
On The Origin of Species
The Risorgimento
Taiping Rebellion
American Civil War
Emperor Maximilian
The Schleswig-Holstein Question
Reconstruction
Xhosa Wars
The Tsar Liberator
Belgian Congo
Ellis Island
THE 20TH CENTURY AND BEYOND
Sino-Japanese Wars
Spanish-American War
Boxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War
Polar exploration
Mass production
Mass media
Panama Canal
World War I
Gallipoli
Easter Rising
October Revolution
‘Spanish flu’ pandemic
Treaty of Versailles
Mustafa Kemel Atatürk
Stalin
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Spanish Civil War
Abyssinia
Annexation of
World War II
Stalingrad and Leningrad
Pearl Harbor
Gandhi and Churchill
Holocaust
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Partition
Israel and Palestine
Mao
Berlin Airlift
Korea
Indochina
Mau Mau Rebellion
Suez Crisis
The Space Race
Civil Rights
Cuba
Environmentalism
‘Winds of Change’
Kennedy
Apartheid
Vietnam War
Cultural Revolution
Bangladesh
Idi Amin
Allende and Chile
Yom Kippur War
Pol Pot
Ayatollahs in Iran
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Iran-Iraq War
Bosnia
The ‘War on Terror’
The Credit Crunch
The Internet
Index
Acknowledgments
