Outline of history

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to history:

History – discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented.

Overview

Main article: History

• Chronology
• Past
• Time

Branches

• Archaeology – study of past human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data
• Archontology – study of historical offices and important positions in state, international, political, religious and other organizations and societies
• Art history – the study of changes in and social context of art
• Chronology – locating events in time
• Cultural history – the study of culture in the past
• Economic history – the study of economies in the past
• Environmental history – study of natural history and the human relationship with the natural world
• Futurology – study of the future: researches the medium to long-term future of societies and of the physical world
• History painting – the painting of works of art having historical motifs or depicting great events
• Military history – the study of warfare and wars in history
• Natural history – history of the natural world, now usually referred to as science
• Naval history – the branch of military history devoted to warfare at sea or in bodies of water
• Paleography – the study of ancient texts
• Political history – the study of past political events, ideas, movements, and leaders
• Public history – the presentation of history to public audiences and other areas typically outside academia
• Psychohistory – study of the psychological motivations of historical events
• Social history – the study of societies and social trends in the past

Record of history

Main articles: News, History, History of Earth, and History of the World

History by chronology

Main articles: List of timelines and List of time periods

• Timeline of the Big Bang
• Formation and evolution of the Solar System
• History of the world
• Geologic time scale
• Ancient history
  • Prehistory
  • Classics
• Middle Ages
• Pre-Columbian
  • Mesoamerican chronology
• Renaissance
• Modern history
• Future history

Ages of history

• Stone Age
  • Paleolithic
    • Lower Paleolithic
      • (Homo)
      • (control of fire, stone tools)
    • Middle Paleolithic
      • (Homo neanderthalensis)
      • (Homo sapiens)
      • (Recent African origin of modern humans)
    • Upper Paleolithic
      • (behavioral modernity, atlatl, Origin of the domestic dog)
  • Mesolithic
    • (microliths, bow, canoes)
  • Neolithic
    • Stone Age Levant
      • Tell Halaf
      • Ubaid period
    • Neolithic Europe
      • (Linear Pottery)
      • (Vinča culture)
    • Neolithic China
    • Neolithic South Asia
      • Mehrgarh
    • Paleo-Indians (Americas)
  • Chalcolithic (Copper Age)
    • Uruk period
    • (Yamna culture)
    • (Corded Ware)
    • Europe
    • (Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica)
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age
• Axial Age
• Dark Age
• Middle Ages
  • Early Middle Ages
  • High Middle Ages
  • Late Middle Ages
• Viking Age
• Age of Discovery
• Age of Reason
• Age of Enlightenment
• Industrial Age
• Information Age
• Space Age

Eras of history

Main article: Era

• Chinese Eras
• Japanese Eras
• Korean Eras
• Vietnamese Eras

History by region

Main article: History of the world

• Ancient Egypt
• Babylonia
• India
• Classics
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Rome
• Ancient China
• Mesoamerica

History by continent and country

• Timeline of country and capital changes since 1001 CE
• Timeline of ancient country changes before 1001 CE

Economic history by region

Military history by region

History by field

• Cultural history
  • History of archaeology, timeline
  • History of banking
  • History of cooking
  • History of critical theory
  • History of entertainment
  • History of games
    • History of board games
      • History of chess
    • History of role-playing games
  • History of hobbies
  • History of literature
  • History of money
  • History of poetry
  • History of sport
    • History of American football
    • History of baseball
    • History of billiards
    • History of cricket
    • History of football
    • History of the Olympics
    • History of skiing
    • History of swimming
    • History of track and field
• History of art
  • History of the performing arts
    • History of dance
    • History of film
    • History of music
    • History of opera
    • History of theatre
  • History of visual arts
    • History of architecture, timeline
    • History of crafts
    • History of design
    • History of drawing
    • History of film
    • History of painting
    • History of photography
    • History of sculpture
• History of geography
  • History of archaeology, timeline
• History of history
• History of mathematics, timeline
  • History of algebra
  • History of arithmetic
  • History of calculus
  • History of discrete mathematics
  • History of geometry
  • History of trigonometry
  • History of logic
  • History of statistics
• History of philosophy, timeline
  • History of ethics
    • History of normative ethics
    • History of meta-ethics
  • History of epistemology
  • History of humanism
  • History of logic
  • History of metaphysics
  • History of transhumanism
  • History of Western philosophy

History of religions

• History of religions (timeline)
  • Axial Age
  • Evolutionary origin of religions
  • Teleological development of religion
  • The Bible and history
  • History of Ayyavazhi
  • History of Buddhism (timeline)
  • History of Christianity (timeline)
    • Historical Jesus
    • History of the Catholic Church
    • History of Protestantism
      • History of the Puritans
  • History of creationism
  • History of Hinduism
  • History of Islam (timeline)
  • History of Judaism
  • History of Taoism
  • History of Wicca

History of science

• History of science
  • History of science in general
    • History of scientific method
    • Theories/sociology of science
    • Historiography
    • History of pseudoscience
  • By era
    • History of science in early cultures
    • History of science in Classical Antiquity
    • History of science in the Middle Ages
    • History of science in the Renaissance
    • Scientific revolution
  • History of natural science
    • History of biology
      • History of biochemistry
    • History of physical science
      • History of nature
      • History of astronomy, timeline
      • History of chemistry
      • History of ecology
      • History of earth science
      • History of geography
      • History of geology, timeline
      • History of meteorology, timeline
      • History of oceanography
      • History of physics

Social sciences

• History of the social sciences
  • Business history
  • Historiography
  • History of archaeology (timeline)
  • History of criminal justice
  • History of economic thought
  • History of education
  • History of linguistics
  • History of management
  • History of marketing
  • History of political science
  • History of psychology (timeline)
  • History of science and technology
  • History of scientific method
  • History of sociology (timeline)
  • Legal history (history of law)

Technology

• History of technology
  • Aviation history
  • History of agricultural science
  • History of agriculture
  • History of architecture (timeline)
  • History of artificial intelligence
  • History of biotechnology
  • History of cartography
  • History of communication
  • History of computer science
    • History of programming languages (timeline)
    • History of software engineering
  • History of electromagnetism
  • History of engineering
    • History of chemical engineering
    • History of electrical engineering
  • History of health science
  • History of materials science
  • History of measurement
  • History of medicine
  • History of transport
  • Industrial history
  • Military history
    • List of battles
    • List of wars
  • Timeline of historic inventions

Methods and tools

• Prosopography – a methodological tool for the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period
• Historical revisionism – traditionally used in a completely neutral sense to describe the work or ideas of a historian who has revised a previously accepted view of a particular topic
• Historiography – the study of historical methodology

Concepts

• Annals
• Big History
• Centuries
• Chronicle
• Chronology
• Classics
• Cultural history
• Family history
• Future
• Genealogy
• Historian
• Historical classification
• Historical revisionism
• Historical thinking
• Historiography
• History
• History is written by the victors
• History of science and technology
  • Timeline of historic inventions
  • Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics
  • Timeline of mathematics
  • Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics
• Identity
• Intellectual History
• Intellectual history of time
• Landscape history
• List of time periods
• Local history
• Marxist historiography
• Mythology
• Oral history
• Palaeography
• Past
• Periodization
• Philosophy of history
• Prehistory
• Present
• Pseudohistory
• Social history
• Social change
• Virtual history

Historians

For a more comprehensive list, see List of historians.

Historian –

• Herodotus –
• Dio Cassius –
• Livy –
• Appian –
• Jean Froissart –
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel –
• Voltaire –
• Edward Gibbon –
• Thomas Macaulay –
• Alexis de Tocqueville –
• Arnold J. Toynbee –
• J. B. Bury –
• Will Durant –
• Samuel Eliot Morison –
• Francis Parkman –

Lists

Main article: Index of history articles

• Outline of archaeology
• Outline of classical studies
• Outline of medieval history
• Outline of the Renaissance

• List of historians
• List of timelines

References

Further reading

• Williams, H. S. (1907). The historians' history of the world. (ed., This is Book 1 of 25 Volumes; PDF version is available)
• Wells, H. G. (1921). The outline of history, being a plain history of life and mankind. (ed., This is Book 1 of multi-volume set.)

External links

• Internet History Sourcebooks Project See also Internet History Sourcebooks Project. Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
• WWW-VL: History Central Catalogue first history on the WWW, located at European University Institute
• BBC History Site