Index of history articles

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History
Study of the past
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Key concepts Archeology Chronology Common Era (anno Domini, Gregorian calendar) Historical method Historiography Periodization Recorded history Historical source (primary, secondary, tertiary)
Periods Prehistory Ancient history (Bronze Age, classical antiquity) Post-classical history (Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages) Modern history (early modern history, late modern history, contemporary history)
By region Africa Antarctica Australia Central America East Asia Europe Middle East New Zealand North America Pacific Islands South America South Asia Southeast Asia The Caribbean
Notable historians Ban Gu Ban Zhao Bede Dio Gibbon Herodotus Ibn Khaldun Isidore Josephus Livy Manetho Plutarch Polybius Sallust Suetonius Tacitus Taylor Thucydides Xenophon Zuo
Timelines Prehistoric Ancient Post-classical Modern Future
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History is the study of the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies as preserved primarily through written sources. This is a list of history topics covered on English Wikipedia:

• Bahamas, History of the
• Bahrain, History of
• Bangladesh, History of

• East Pakistan

• Battle
• Babylonia
• Banking, History of
• Barda, History of
• Belarus, History of
• Belgium, History of
• Bias
• Bibliography of history
• Biography
• Botswana, History of
• Brazil, History of

• Colonial
• Empire

• Britain, History of

• Ancient
• Roman
• Empire

• Bronze Age
• Business history
• Byzantine Empire

• Dark Ages (historiography)
• Death of Alexander the Great
• Decolonization
• Denmark, History of
• Digital Age
• Divine Right of Kings

• Economic history
• Education, History of
• Egypt, History of

• Ancient
• Achaemenid
• Ptolemaic
• Roman
• Arab
• Ottoman
• Muhammad Ali dynasty
• Modern

• Eighty Years' War
• History of England

• Reformation
• Civil War

• Ethiopia, History of
• Europe, History of

• European Union

• Environmental history

• Falkland Islands, History of
• Fashion design, History of
• Finland, History of
• France, History of

• Prehistoric
• Gaul
• Roman Gaul
• Frankish Empire
• In the Middle Ages
• in the Early Modern Period
• Revolution
• First Republic
• First Empire
• Bourbon Restoration
• July Monarchy
• Second Republic
• Second Empire
• Third Republic
• Vichy France
• Provisional Government
• Fourth Republic
• Fifth Republic

• Forest history

• Gender history
• Genealogy
• Germany, History of
  • Germanic tribes
  • Migration period
  • Frankish Empire
    • Merovingian dynasty
    • Carolingian dynasty
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Early modern history of Germany
  • German confederation
  • North German Federation
  • German Empire
  • Weimar Republic
  • Nazi Germany
  • Partitions of Germany
    • East Germany
    • West Germany
  • Reunification of Germany
• Ghana, History of
• Great Depression
  • in Australia
  • in Canada
  • in France
  • in Latin America
  • in the Netherlands
  • in South Africa
  • in the United Kingdom
  • in the United States
• Greece, History of
• Guatemala, History of
• Gunpowder warfare

• Haiti, History of
• Historical document
• Historical method
• Historical sociology
• Historicism
• Historiography
• History
• History from below
• Holocaust, the
• Holy Roman Empire
• Honduras, History of
• Hong Kong, History of
• Human history
• Hundred Years' War
• Hungary, History of
• Huns

• Iceland, History of
• Ideas, History of
• Imperialism
• Inca Empire
• India, History of

• Middle kingdoms
• Mughal Empire
• British Raj
• Republic

• Indochina Wars
• Indonesia, History of
• Indus Valley civilization
• Industrial Age
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrial warfare
• Information Age
• The Internet, History of
• Inquisition
• Iran, History of

• Revolution

• Ireland, History of

• Early history of Ireland
• Norman Ireland

• Iron Age
• Italy, History of

• Jamaica, History of
• Japan, History of

• Ancient
• Tokugawa shogunate
• Imperial

• Jersey, History of
• Jordan, History of

• Kazakhstan, History of
• Kenya, History of
• Korea, History of

• Ancient
• North
• South
• Korean War

• Kosovo, History of
• King Arthur

• Labor history
• Landscape history
• Laos, History of
• Latvia, History of
• League of Nations
• Lebanon, History of
• Lesotho, History of
• LGBT history
• Liberia, History of
• Libya, History of
• Liechtenstein, History of
• Lithuania, History of
• Local history
• Luxembourg, History of

• Malaysia, History of
• Maritime history
• Maya civilization
• Medicine, History of
• Medieval warfare
• Meiji Restoration
• Mesoamerica
• Mesolithic period
• Mesopotamia
• Mexico, History of
• Middle Ages
• Migration
• Military Frontier
• Military history
  • Prehistoric warfare
  • Ancient warfare
  • Medieval warfare
  • Early Modern warfare
  • Industrial warfare
  • Modern warfare
• Minoan civilization
• Modern history
• Mongol Empire
• Mozambique, History of
• Music, History of
  • Prehistoric music
  • Ancient music
  • Early music
    • Medieval music
    • Renaissance music
    • Baroque music
  • Common practice period
    • Classical
    • Romantic music
  • 20th century music

• Napoleonic Wars
• Nationalism
• Natural history
• Naval history
• Neolithic period
• Nepal, History
• New Imperialism
• New Zealand, History of
• Normans
• North America, History of

• Oceania, History of
• Oman, History of
• Oral history
• Ottoman Empire

• Qatar, History of
• Quantitative history

• Science, History of
• Scotland, History of
• Scramble for Africa
• Serbia, History of
• Slavery, History of
• Social history
• Socialism, History of
• Source, Primary
• Source, Secondary
• South Africa, History of
• South America, History of
• South India, History of
• Space Age
• Spain, History of

• Empire of
• Civil War

• Sport, History of
• Stone Age
• Sweden, History of
• Switzerland, History of
• Syria, History of

• Taiping Revolution
• Telecommunication, History of
• Thailand, History of
• Three-age system
• Trade, History of
• Transport, History of
• Turkey, History of

• Uganda, History of
• Ukraine, History of
• United States, History of
  • Diplomatic history
  • Military history
  • Technological and industrial history
  • Economic history
  • Cultural history
  • Women's history
  • Native American history
  • Timeline
    • Pre-Columbian era
    • Colonial period
    • American Revolutionary War
    • 1776–1789
    • 1789–1849
    • 1849–1865
    • 1865–1918
    • 1918–1945
    • 1945–1964
    • 1964–1980
    • 1980–1991
    • 1991–present
• United Kingdom, History of
• Universal history
• Uruguay, History of
• USSR, History of the
• Uzbekistan, History of

• Vanuatu, History of
• Vatican City, History of
• Venezuela, History of
• Venice, History of
• Vietnam, History of

• American War

• Vikings
• Viking Age

• War
• Warfare, Ancient
• Western fashion, History of
• Wildlife tracking technology, History of
• Women's history
• World history
• World War I
• World War II (Outline of World War II)
• Writing, History of

• Xinhai Revolution

• Yemen, History of

• Zambia, History of
• Zanzibar, History of
• Zimbabwe, History of