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Study human civilization through causes, institutions, evidence, consequences, and connections across time.
Human prehistory covers the vast span before written records, reconstructed through archaeology, genetics, paleoenvironmental evidence, and comparative study. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa and dispersed in multiple waves into other regions, interacting with and sometimes interbreeding with other human populations.
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Human prehistory covers the vast span before written records, reconstructed through archaeology, genetics, paleoenvironmental evidence, and comparative study. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa and dispersed in multiple waves into other regions, interacting with and sometimes interbreeding with other human populations.
Human prehistory covers the vast span before written records, reconstructed through archaeology, genetics, paleoenvironmental evidence, and comparative study. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa and dispersed in multiple waves into other regions, interacting with and sometimes interbreeding with other human populations.
Ancient Greek history included independent poleis, colonization, warfare, trade, intellectual traditions, and changing forms of government rather than a single unified Greek state.
Ancient Greek history included independent poleis, colonization, warfare, trade, intellectual traditions, and changing forms of government rather than a single unified Greek state.
Ancient Greek history included independent poleis, colonization, warfare, trade, intellectual traditions, and changing forms of government rather than a single unified Greek state.
Ancient Greek history included independent poleis, colonization, warfare, trade, intellectual traditions, and changing forms of government rather than a single unified Greek state.
Ancient Greek history included independent poleis, colonization, warfare, trade, intellectual traditions, and changing forms of government rather than a single unified Greek state.
Rome developed from a city-state into a republic, Mediterranean empire, and later an imperial system that transformed law, warfare, infrastructure, citizenship, economy, and culture across a vast territory.
Rome developed from a city-state into a republic, Mediterranean empire, and later an imperial system that transformed law, warfare, infrastructure, citizenship, economy, and culture across a vast territory.
Rome developed from a city-state into a republic, Mediterranean empire, and later an imperial system that transformed law, warfare, infrastructure, citizenship, economy, and culture across a vast territory.
Rome developed from a city-state into a republic, Mediterranean empire, and later an imperial system that transformed law, warfare, infrastructure, citizenship, economy, and culture across a vast territory.
Rome developed from a city-state into a republic, Mediterranean empire, and later an imperial system that transformed law, warfare, infrastructure, citizenship, economy, and culture across a vast territory.
Classical South and East Asian societies developed influential political, philosophical, religious, scientific, and economic traditions, including Maurya and Gupta India and Qin and Han China.
Classical South and East Asian societies developed influential political, philosophical, religious, scientific, and economic traditions, including Maurya and Gupta India and Qin and Han China.
Classical South and East Asian societies developed influential political, philosophical, religious, scientific, and economic traditions, including Maurya and Gupta India and Qin and Han China.
Classical South and East Asian societies developed influential political, philosophical, religious, scientific, and economic traditions, including Maurya and Gupta India and Qin and Han China.
Classical South and East Asian societies developed influential political, philosophical, religious, scientific, and economic traditions, including Maurya and Gupta India and Qin and Han China.
Between roughly the eighth and thirteenth centuries, many cities under Muslim-ruled states became major centers of scholarship, trade, administration, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and literature.
Between roughly the eighth and thirteenth centuries, many cities under Muslim-ruled states became major centers of scholarship, trade, administration, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and literature.
Between roughly the eighth and thirteenth centuries, many cities under Muslim-ruled states became major centers of scholarship, trade, administration, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and literature.
Between roughly the eighth and thirteenth centuries, many cities under Muslim-ruled states became major centers of scholarship, trade, administration, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and literature.
Between roughly the eighth and thirteenth centuries, many cities under Muslim-ruled states became major centers of scholarship, trade, administration, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and literature.
The medieval period contained diverse societies across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas with different political systems, religions, economies, technologies, and networks of exchange.
The medieval period contained diverse societies across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas with different political systems, religions, economies, technologies, and networks of exchange.
The medieval period contained diverse societies across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas with different political systems, religions, economies, technologies, and networks of exchange.
The medieval period contained diverse societies across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas with different political systems, religions, economies, technologies, and networks of exchange.
The medieval period contained diverse societies across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas with different political systems, religions, economies, technologies, and networks of exchange.
The Renaissance describes overlapping cultural and intellectual movements, especially in parts of Europe from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, involving renewed engagement with classical texts, artistic experimentation, humanism, printing, and political change.
The Renaissance describes overlapping cultural and intellectual movements, especially in parts of Europe from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, involving renewed engagement with classical texts, artistic experimentation, humanism, printing, and political change.
The Renaissance describes overlapping cultural and intellectual movements, especially in parts of Europe from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, involving renewed engagement with classical texts, artistic experimentation, humanism, printing, and political change.
The Renaissance describes overlapping cultural and intellectual movements, especially in parts of Europe from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, involving renewed engagement with classical texts, artistic experimentation, humanism, printing, and political change.
The Renaissance describes overlapping cultural and intellectual movements, especially in parts of Europe from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, involving renewed engagement with classical texts, artistic experimentation, humanism, printing, and political change.
From the fifteenth century onward, expanding maritime networks connected the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific worlds more intensively, producing trade, empire, migration, forced labor, ecological exchange, and catastrophic consequences for many Indigenous peoples.
From the fifteenth century onward, expanding maritime networks connected the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific worlds more intensively, producing trade, empire, migration, forced labor, ecological exchange, and catastrophic consequences for many Indigenous peoples.
From the fifteenth century onward, expanding maritime networks connected the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific worlds more intensively, producing trade, empire, migration, forced labor, ecological exchange, and catastrophic consequences for many Indigenous peoples.
From the fifteenth century onward, expanding maritime networks connected the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific worlds more intensively, producing trade, empire, migration, forced labor, ecological exchange, and catastrophic consequences for many Indigenous peoples.
From the fifteenth century onward, expanding maritime networks connected the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific worlds more intensively, producing trade, empire, migration, forced labor, ecological exchange, and catastrophic consequences for many Indigenous peoples.
Early modern scientific and Enlightenment movements transformed methods of inquiry and debates about nature, government, rights, religion, and society, while building on earlier European, Islamic, Asian, and classical knowledge traditions.
Early modern scientific and Enlightenment movements transformed methods of inquiry and debates about nature, government, rights, religion, and society, while building on earlier European, Islamic, Asian, and classical knowledge traditions.
Early modern scientific and Enlightenment movements transformed methods of inquiry and debates about nature, government, rights, religion, and society, while building on earlier European, Islamic, Asian, and classical knowledge traditions.
Early modern scientific and Enlightenment movements transformed methods of inquiry and debates about nature, government, rights, religion, and society, while building on earlier European, Islamic, Asian, and classical knowledge traditions.
Early modern scientific and Enlightenment movements transformed methods of inquiry and debates about nature, government, rights, religion, and society, while building on earlier European, Islamic, Asian, and classical knowledge traditions.
Political revolutions in the Atlantic world and beyond challenged monarchies, colonial rule, social hierarchies, and inherited privileges, while producing new constitutions and unresolved struggles over citizenship and equality.
Political revolutions in the Atlantic world and beyond challenged monarchies, colonial rule, social hierarchies, and inherited privileges, while producing new constitutions and unresolved struggles over citizenship and equality.
Political revolutions in the Atlantic world and beyond challenged monarchies, colonial rule, social hierarchies, and inherited privileges, while producing new constitutions and unresolved struggles over citizenship and equality.
Political revolutions in the Atlantic world and beyond challenged monarchies, colonial rule, social hierarchies, and inherited privileges, while producing new constitutions and unresolved struggles over citizenship and equality.
Political revolutions in the Atlantic world and beyond challenged monarchies, colonial rule, social hierarchies, and inherited privileges, while producing new constitutions and unresolved struggles over citizenship and equality.
Industrialization transformed production through mechanization, fossil energy, factories, transportation, finance, and new labor systems, first accelerating in Britain and later spreading and adapting across regions.
Industrialization transformed production through mechanization, fossil energy, factories, transportation, finance, and new labor systems, first accelerating in Britain and later spreading and adapting across regions.
Industrialization transformed production through mechanization, fossil energy, factories, transportation, finance, and new labor systems, first accelerating in Britain and later spreading and adapting across regions.
Industrialization transformed production through mechanization, fossil energy, factories, transportation, finance, and new labor systems, first accelerating in Britain and later spreading and adapting across regions.
Industrialization transformed production through mechanization, fossil energy, factories, transportation, finance, and new labor systems, first accelerating in Britain and later spreading and adapting across regions.
Modern imperialism involved states and companies extending political, economic, and military control over other territories, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while older forms of empire also persisted.
Modern imperialism involved states and companies extending political, economic, and military control over other territories, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while older forms of empire also persisted.
Modern imperialism involved states and companies extending political, economic, and military control over other territories, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while older forms of empire also persisted.
Modern imperialism involved states and companies extending political, economic, and military control over other territories, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while older forms of empire also persisted.
Modern imperialism involved states and companies extending political, economic, and military control over other territories, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while older forms of empire also persisted.
World War I was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918 rooted in alliance systems, militarization, imperial rivalry, nationalism, regional crises, and decisions made during the July Crisis after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
World War I was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918 rooted in alliance systems, militarization, imperial rivalry, nationalism, regional crises, and decisions made during the July Crisis after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
World War I was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918 rooted in alliance systems, militarization, imperial rivalry, nationalism, regional crises, and decisions made during the July Crisis after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
World War I was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918 rooted in alliance systems, militarization, imperial rivalry, nationalism, regional crises, and decisions made during the July Crisis after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
World War I was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918 rooted in alliance systems, militarization, imperial rivalry, nationalism, regional crises, and decisions made during the July Crisis after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
World War II was a global war from 1939 to 1945 driven by expansionist regimes, unresolved post–World War I tensions, fascism and militarism, economic crisis, imperial ambitions, and failures of deterrence and collective security.
World War II was a global war from 1939 to 1945 driven by expansionist regimes, unresolved post–World War I tensions, fascism and militarism, economic crisis, imperial ambitions, and failures of deterrence and collective security.
World War II was a global war from 1939 to 1945 driven by expansionist regimes, unresolved post–World War I tensions, fascism and militarism, economic crisis, imperial ambitions, and failures of deterrence and collective security.
World War II was a global war from 1939 to 1945 driven by expansionist regimes, unresolved post–World War I tensions, fascism and militarism, economic crisis, imperial ambitions, and failures of deterrence and collective security.
World War II was a global war from 1939 to 1945 driven by expansionist regimes, unresolved post–World War I tensions, fascism and militarism, economic crisis, imperial ambitions, and failures of deterrence and collective security.
After World War II, colonial empires weakened while anticolonial movements gained strength, and global politics increasingly operated within a Cold War rivalry led by the United States and Soviet Union.
After World War II, colonial empires weakened while anticolonial movements gained strength, and global politics increasingly operated within a Cold War rivalry led by the United States and Soviet Union.
After World War II, colonial empires weakened while anticolonial movements gained strength, and global politics increasingly operated within a Cold War rivalry led by the United States and Soviet Union.
After World War II, colonial empires weakened while anticolonial movements gained strength, and global politics increasingly operated within a Cold War rivalry led by the United States and Soviet Union.
After World War II, colonial empires weakened while anticolonial movements gained strength, and global politics increasingly operated within a Cold War rivalry led by the United States and Soviet Union.
Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century globalization intensified flows of trade, capital, people, information, culture, and production across borders, while digital networks transformed communication and economic organization.
Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century globalization intensified flows of trade, capital, people, information, culture, and production across borders, while digital networks transformed communication and economic organization.
Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century globalization intensified flows of trade, capital, people, information, culture, and production across borders, while digital networks transformed communication and economic organization.
Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century globalization intensified flows of trade, capital, people, information, culture, and production across borders, while digital networks transformed communication and economic organization.
Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century globalization intensified flows of trade, capital, people, information, culture, and production across borders, while digital networks transformed communication and economic organization.