History is the study of past events. People know what
happened in the past by looking at things from the past,
including records (like books, newspapers and letters)
and artifacts (like pottery, tools, and human or animal
remains). Libraries, archives and museums collect and
keep these things for people to study history. A person
who studies history is called a historian. A person who
studies pre-history and history through things left
behind by ancient cultures is called an archaeologist. A
person who studies mankind and society is called an
anthropologist. The study of the sources and methods
used to study and write history is called
historiography.
People can learn about the past by talking to people who
remember things that happened in the past. This is
called oral history. When people who had been slaves and
American Civil War survivors got old, some historians
recorded everything that they said, so that history
would not be lost.
In old times people in different parts of the world kept
separate histories because they did not meet each other
very often. Some groups of people never met each other.
Medieval Europe, Ancient Rome and Ancient China each
thought that they ruled the only important parts of the
world and that other parts were "barbarian".
Prehistory and ancient world
- Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Bronze Age, Gupta Empire, Han Dynasty, Iron
Age, Mesopotamia, Prehistory, Roman Empire, Stone Age
Middle Ages and Early Modern
- Abbasid Caliphate, Age of Enlightenment, Aztec Empire, Byzantine Empire,
Crusades, Holy Roman Empire, Hundred Years' War, Middle Ages, Ming Dynasty,
Mongol Empire, Ottoman Empire, Protestant Reformation, Renaissance, Tang
Dynasty, Thirty Years' War, Vikings
Modern -
American Civil War, Apartheid, Arab-Israeli conflict, British Empire, Cold War,
Cultural Revolution, French Revolution, Great Depression, Industrial Revolution,
Meiji Restoration, Nazi Germany, Qing Dynasty, Russian Revolution, The
Holocaust, Treaty of Versailles, Vietnam War, World War I, World War II
War and Military
- Civil war, Military, Peace, War
Explorers and Travelers
- Amundsen, Roald, Armstrong, Neil,
Cartier, Jacques, Columbus, Christopher, Cook, James,
Cortés, Hernán, Gagarin, Yuri, da Gama, Vasco, Ibn
Battuta, Magellan, Ferdinand, Polo, Marco
Inventors, Scientists, and
Mathematicians - Archimedes, Avicenna, Berners-Lee,
Tim, Copernicus, Nicolaus, Curie, Marie, Darwin,
Charles, Edison, Thomas, Einstein, Albert, Euclid,
Euler, Leonhard, Faraday, Michael, Fermi, Enrico,
Fibonacci, Ford, Henry, Fourier, Joseph, Galen, Galileo
Galilei, Gauss, Carl Friedrich, Gutenberg, Johannes,
Joule, James Prescott, Kepler, Johannes, al-Khwarizmi,
Muhammad ibn Musa, Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Linnaeus,
Carl, Maxwell, James Clerk, Mendeleev, Dmitri, Newton,
Sir Isaac, Pasteur, Louis, Planck, Max, Rutherford,
Ernest, Schrödinger, Erwin, Tesla, Nikola, Turing, Alan,
Watt, James
Political Leaders - Akbar,
Alexander the Great, Ashoka, Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal, Augustus, von Bismarck,
Otto, Bolívar, Simón, Bonaparte, Napoleon, Caesar, Julius, Charlemagne,
Churchill, Winston, Constantine the Great, Cyrus the Great, de Gaulle, Charles,
Elizabeth I of England, Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, Genghis Khan, Guevara, Che,
Hitler, Adolf, Joan of Arc, King, Martin Luther, Jr., Lenin, Vladimir, Lincoln,
Abraham, Louis XIV, Luxemburg, Rosa, Mandela, Nelson, Mao Zedong, Nehru,
Jawaharlal, Nkrumah, Kwame, Peter the Great, Qin Shi Huang, Roosevelt, Franklin
D., Saladin, Stalin, Joseph, Suleiman the Magnificent, Sun Yat-sen, Tamerlane,
Umar, Washington, George