INDEX

A

Abbas I, Shah ref1

Abbasid caliphate ref1

abolition of slavery ref1

aboriginal population, Australia ref1, ref2

Achaemenes of Persia, King ref1

Acre, Israel ref1

Act of Supremacy (1534) ref1

African colonies, European ref1, ref2

African National Congress (ANC) ref1

Agincourt (1415), Battle of ref1

agricultural revolution, Britain ref1

Aksum Empire, Africa ref1

Alexander the Great ref1, ref2, ref3

Alexandria, Egypt ref1, ref2

algebra ref1, ref2

American Civil War ref1, ref2, ref3

American Telephone & Telegraph ref1

Americas see Mexico; New Spain; New World; North America; Peru; Spanish America

Amorites ref1

Amritsar Massacre (1919) ref1

Anatolia ref1

animal domestication ref1

Anyang ref1

apartheid system ref1

Archaic Period, Greek ref1, ref2

Archimedes ref1

Argentina ref1

Artemis, temple of ref1

Artemisia II of Caria ref1

Arthur, King ref1

Artistotle ref1, ref2, ref3

Aryabhata ref1

Ashanti Empire, Africa ref1, ref2

Ashoka, Emperor ref1

Ashurbanipal of Assyria, King ref1

Askia Dynasty (Songhai Empire) ref1

Assyrians ref1

astronomy ref1, ref2

Atahualpa ref1

Athens ref1, ref2, ref3

atomic bombs ref1

Attila the Hun ref1

Augustus, Emperor ref1, ref2

Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor ref1

Auschwitz death camp, Poland ref1

Austerlitz (1805), Battle of ref1

Australia ref1, ref2, ref3

Australian aboriginal population ref1

Austria ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Austrian Succession, War of the ref1

Austro-Prussian War ref1

automobile industry ref1

Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan ref1

Aztecs ref1, ref2

B

Babylonians ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Baghdad ref1

banknotes, first ref1, ref2

Barbarossa, Frederick ref1

Battle of Britain ref1

Battle of the Atlantic ref1

Battle of the Bulge ref1

Bede ref1

Bedford, Duke of ref1

Belgium ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Bell, Alexander Graham ref1

Bible ref1, ref2, ref3

Bill of Rights (1689) ref1

Bismarck, Otto von ref1

Black Death ref1, ref2

the Blitz ref1

Boer War ref1

Bohemia ref1

Boleyn, Anne ref1

Bolívar, Simón ref1

Bolsheviks ref1, ref2, ref3

Borodino (1812), Battle of ref1

Boston Tea Party ref1

Boudicca, Queen ref1

Boxer Rebellion ref1

Boyaca (1819), Battle of ref1

Brazil ref1, ref2, ref3

Britain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33

see also England; Ireland; Scotland

British War Office ref1

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) ref1, ref2

Byzantine Empire ref1, ref2

C

Cairo, Egypt ref1

calendars ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Calvin, John ref1

Canada ref1, ref2, ref3

Cannae (216 BCE), Battle of ref1

Canute, King ref1

Carabobo (1821), Battle of ref1

Caracol, Chichen Itza, Mexico ref1

Carolingian Empire ref1

Carolingian Renaissance ref1

Carrhae (53 BCE), Battle of ref1

cars ref1

Carthage ref1, ref2, ref3

Cartier, Jacques ref1

Catherine of Aragon ref1

Catherine ‘the Great’ of Russia ref1

Catholicism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Cavour, Count ref1

Chang’an, China ref1, ref2

Charlemagne, Emperor ref1, ref2, ref3

Charles I of Britain, King ref1

Charles II of Britain, King ref1

Chesapeake colonies ref1

China ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18

Chinese Civil War ref1

Chinese Communist Party ref1

Christianity ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

Churchill, Winston ref1, ref2

Cixi, Empress Dowager ref1

Classical Greece ref1, ref2

Claudius, Emperor ref1

clay tablets, ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

clocks, first mechanical ref1

Cold War ref1

Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves ref1

colonial troops, First World War ref1

colonization of Africa, European ref1

Colossus of Rhodes ref1

Columbian Exchange ref1

Columbus, Christopher ref1, ref2, ref3

Common Sense (T. Paine) ref1

Communist Manifesto (K. Marx and F. Engels) ref1

Confederate States of America ref1

Confucius ref1, ref2

Conquistadors, Spanish ref1, ref2, ref3

Constantine, Emperor ref1

Constantinople ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

convict settlements, Australia ref1

Cook, Captain James ref1, ref2

Coral Sea (1942), Battle of the ref1

Cortes, Hernan ref1

cotton industry ref1, ref2, ref3

Crete ref1

Crimean War ref1

Crompton, Samuel ref1

Cromwell, Oliver ref1

Crusades, Christian ref1, ref2

cuneiform scripts ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

currencies ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Cyrus II of Persia, King ref1

D

D-Day Landings ref1, ref2

da Gama, Vasco ref1, ref2, ref3

da Vinci, Leonardo ref1

Darius I ‘the Great’ of Persia, King ref1, ref2

Darius II of Persia, King ref1

Darwin, Charles ref1

dating terminology ref1

de San Martin, José ref1

death camps, Second World War ref1

Declaration of Independence (1776) ref1

Democratic Republic of China ref1

Denmark ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Diaz, Porfirio ref1

Dionysius Exiguus ref1

disease ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

Domesday Book ref1

Dreadnought, HMS ref1

Dutch Revolt ref1

dyes, ancient ref1

E

East India Company, British ref1, ref2

Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede) ref1

Edessa, Mesopotamia ref1

d’ Edglantine, Fabre ref1

Edison, Thomas ref1

Edo, Japan ref1, ref2

Edward III of England, King ref1

Edward of England, Prince ref1

Edward VI of England, King ref1

Egypt ref1, ref2 see also Egypt, Ancient

Egypt, Ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Elizabeth I of England, Queen ref1, ref2

Engels, Friedrich ref1

England ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

see also Britain

Enigma Code ref1

Enola Gay ref1

Erasmus ref1

Ericsson, Leif ref1

Esfahan, Persia ref1

Ethiopia ref1

Etruscans ref1

Euclid ref1

F

farming ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Ferdinand, Archduke Franz ref1

Ferrier, Thomas ref1

Fertile Crescent ref1

Feudal system ref1

First World War ref1

Ford, Henry ref1

France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23

Franco, General Francisco ref1

Franks ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Frederick II ‘the Great’ of Prussia, Emperor ref1

Frederick William I of Prussia, King ref1

French Revolution ref1, ref2, ref3

G

Gallipoli campaign, First World War ref1

Gandhi, Mahatma ref1

Garibaldi, Giuseppe ref1

Gaul ref1, ref2, ref3

Gemmei of Japan, Empress ref1

Genghis Khan ref1

Geoffrey of Monmouth ref1

George III of Britain, King ref1

Germanic tribes and Roman Empire ref1, ref2

Germany ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22

Gettysburg (1863), Battle of ref1

Giza, Egypt ref1, ref2

Gobind Singh, Guru ref1

Gospels, Christian ref1

Grand Canal, China ref1

Grant, General Ulysses S. ref1

Great Depression ref1

Great Fire of London ref1

Great Meireki Fire ref1

Great Purge, Stalin’s ref1

Great Pyramid, Giza ref1, ref2

Great Pyramid, Tenochtitlan ref1

Great Wall of China ref1

the Great War ref1

Greco-Persian Wars ref1, ref2

Greece, Ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

Gugong (Forbidden City), China ref1

gunpowder ref1, ref2

Gupta Dynasty, India ref1

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, King ref1

Gutenberg Bible ref1

H

Habsburg, House of ref1, ref2

Hadrian, Emperor ref1

Hadrian’s Wall ref1

Hammurabi Code ref1

Han Dynasty, China ref1, ref2

Hanging Gardens of Babylon ref1

Hannibal ref1

Hargreaves, James ref1

Hastings (1066), Battle of ref1

Hawaii ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Heinz, John ref1

Hellenistric Greece ref1

Henry V of England, King ref1

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ref1

Henry VIII of England, King ref1, ref2, ref3

Herodotus ref1, ref2

Heydrich, Reinhard ref1

Hindu-Arabic numerals ref1, ref2

Hindus/ Hinduism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Hiroshima and Nagasaki ref1

Historia Regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth) ref1

Hitler, Adolf ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Hittites ref1

Holland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Holy Roman Empire ref1

Homer ref1

Hong Kong ref1

Hong Xiuquan ref1

Hope Diamond ref1

Huitzilopochtli ref1

Hulagu ref1

100 Years War ref1

Hundred Days, Napoleonic ref1

Hunnic Empire ref1

I

Iceni tribe ref1

Ife, Nigeria ref1

Iliad (Homer) ref1

Inca Empire ref1, ref2

India ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Indian National Congress ref1

Indus Empire ref1

Industrial Revolution ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

International Brigade, Spanish Civil War ref1

Ionian settlements ref1, ref2

Ireland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Islam/ Muslims ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

Israel, lost tribes of ref1

Issus, Battle of ref1

Italy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Ivan IV ‘the Terrible’ of Russia, Tsar ref1

J

Jacobins ref1

Jacquerie revolt, France ref1

Jahan, Shah ref1

James II of Britain, King ref1

Japan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Jefferson, Thomas ref1

Jenner, Edward ref1

Jesus ref1, ref2, ref3

Jews ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

John I, Pope ref1

John III Sobieski of Poland ref1

Julius Caesar ref1, ref2

K

Kara Mustafa ref1

Khalsa warriors ref1

Khufu, Pharaoh ref1

Kitchener, Horatio Herbert ref1

Knights of the Round Table ref1

Knossos, Palace of ref1

Kublai Khan ref1, ref2

Kush ref1, ref2

L

‘Land of the Seven Rivers’ ref1

Lee, Robert E. ref1

Lenin, Vladimir ref1, ref2

Leo III, Pope ref1

Leo X, Pope ref1

Leopold of Austria, Duke ref1

Liegnitz (1241), Battle of ref1

Lin Zexu ref1

Lincoln, Abraham ref1

Lind, James ref1

Lombards ref1

London, England ref1, ref2, ref3

Long March, Mao Zedong’s ref1

longships, Viking ref1

Louis IX of France, King ref1

Louis XVI of France, King ref1

Louis XVIII, King ref1

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ref1

Luftwaffe, German ref1, ref2

Luther, Martin ref1

M

Macedonia ref1, ref2

Madero, Francisco ref1

Magellan, Ferdinand ref1, ref2

Mahabharata ref1

Mali Empire ref1

Manchu (Qing) Dynasty, China ref1, ref2, ref3

Manchuria ref1

Mandela, Nelson ref1

Mansa Musa of Mali, Emperor ref1

Man’Yoshu ref1

Mao Zedong ref1

Maori people ref1

Marathon, Battle of ref1

Marne (1914), Battle of the ref1

Marx, Karl ref1, ref2

Mary I of England, Queen ref1

Mary Rose ref1

Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor ref1

Maurya Empire ref1, ref2

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus ref1

Mayan civilization ref1, ref2, ref3

Mayflower ref1

measurement, units of ref1

Medes ref1

Mesopotamia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Mexican-American War ref1

Mexico ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Midway (1942), Battle of ref1

migration, surge of ref1, ref2

Ming Dynasty, China ref1, ref2

Minoans ref1

Model T, Ford ref1

monasteries/ monks ref1

Mongols ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

monotheism ref1, ref2

Mughals ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Muhammad ref1, ref2, ref3

mummification ref1

Mumtaz Mahal ref1

Musa al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn ref1

Museum and library of Alexandria ref1

Muslims see Islam/Muslims

Mutsuhito, Meiji Emperor ref1

Muwatallis, King ref1

Mycenaeans ref1

N

Nadir Shah ref1, ref2

Nanak, Guru ref1

Nanjing, China ref1, ref2, ref3

Napoleon Bonaparte ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Napoleon III of France ref1

Napoleonic Wars ref1, ref2, ref3

Nara Period, Japan ref1

National Assembly, France ref1

National Revolutionary Party, Mexico ref1

nationalism, concept of ref1

Native Americans ref1

Nazi Party ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, King ref1

Nelson, Admiral Horatio ref1

New France ref1

New South Wales ref1

New Spain ref1

New Testament Bible ref1

New World settlers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

New York, North America ref1, ref2, ref3

New Zealand ref1, ref2, ref3

Nicolas II of Russia, Tsar ref1

Nineveh ref1

Normandy Landings ref1

Normans ref1, ref2

North America ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18

see also New World settlers

Norway ref1, ref2

numerals, written ref1, ref2, ref3

Nuremberg Laws (1935) ref1

O

obelisks, Ethiopian ref1

Offa of Mercia, King ref1

Olmecs ref1

Olympia ref1

Olympiad ref1

Olympic Games ref1, ref2

Omayyad Dynasty, Arabian ref1

On the Origin of Species (C. Darwin) ref1

Operation Barbarossa ref1

Opium Wars ref1

Oregon Treaty (1846) ref1

Ottoman Turks ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

P

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui ref1

Paine, Thomas ref1

Pakistan ref1

Palace of Knossos ref1

Parthenon, Athens ref1

Parthians ref1

Peacock Throne ref1, ref2

Pearl Harbor ref1

Peking, China ref1

Peninsular War ref1

Persia ref1, ref2

Persian Empire, Ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Peru ref1

Pétain, Marshal Philippe ref1

Peter ‘the Great’ of Russia ref1

Petrograd Workers Strike ref1

Pharos of Alexandria ref1, ref2

Philip II of France, King ref1

Philip II of Macedonia ref1, ref2

Philip II of Spain, King ref1

Philip IV of France, King ref1

philosophy, Chinese ref1

Phoenicians ref1

pictographs ref1, ref2

Picts ref1

‘pieces of eight’ ref1

Pilgrim Fathers ref1

Pillars of Islam ref1

Pizarro, Francisco ref1

plantations, New World ref1, ref2, ref3

Poland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

poll tax riots ref1

Polo, Marco ref1

Pontius Pilate ref1

Portugal/Portuguese ref1, ref2, ref3

potato blight, Irish ref1

Prague, Defenestration of ref1

printing presses ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Protestant Reformation ref1, ref2, ref3

Protestantism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Prussia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Ptolemaic Dynasty, Egypt ref1, ref2

Ptolemy II of Egypt ref1

Punic Wars ref1

purple textiles ref1

pyramids, Ancient Egyptian ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Q

Qadesh, Battle of ref1

Qianlong, Emperor ref1

Qin Dynasty, China ref1

Qin Shi Huang, Emperor ref1

Qing (Manchu) Dynasty, China ref1, ref2, ref3

quipu ref1

Qur’an ref1

R

railways ref1, ref2

Rameses II, Pharaoh ref1

Renaissance, European ref1, ref2, ref3

Rhodes Harbour ref1

Richard I ‘the Lionheart’ of England, King ref1, ref2

Richard II of England, King ref1

Richelieu, Cardinal ref1

Rigveda ref1

Robespierre, Maximilien ref1

Roman Catholic Church ref1, ref2, ref3

Roman Empire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Roman Period (Greece) ref1

Roman Republic ref1, ref2, ref3

Romania ref1

Rome ref1, ref2

Roosevelt, Franklin D. ref1

Rossbach (1757), Battle of ref1

Roundheads and Cavaliers ref1

Royal Air Force ref1

Royal Navy ref1

Royal Road, Persian ref1

Russia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

Russian Civil War ref1

Russian Communist Party ref1, ref2

Russo-Japanese War ref1

S

Sabines ref1

sacrifices ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Safavid Dynasty, Persia ref1, ref2

St Benedict ref1

St Patrick ref1

St Paul ref1

Saladin ref1

Salt March, Gandhi’s ref1

Samsonov, Alexander ref1

Sanskrit ref1

Saracens ref1

Sargon II of Assyria, King ref1

Sassanid Empire ref1

scurvy ref1

Sebástian del Cano, Juan ref1

Second World War ref1

Seven Hills of Rome ref1

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ref1

Seven Years War ref1, ref2

Shah Jahan ref1

Shang Dynasty, China ref1

Shia Islam ref1

Shinto ref1

Siberia ref1, ref2

Sikhs/ Sikhism ref1, ref2, ref3

Sikuquanshu ref1

Silk Road ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Sino-Japanese Wars ref1, ref2, ref3

skyscrapers, construction of first ref1

The Slave Ship (J. M. W. Turner) ref1

slave trade ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

smallpox ref1, ref2, ref3

Somme (1916), Battle of the ref1, ref2

Song Dynasty, China ref1, ref2

Songhai Empire, West Africa ref1, ref2

South Africa ref1, ref2

Soviet Union ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

see also Russia

Spain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Spanish American independence ref1

Spanish-American War ref1

Spanish Armada ref1

Spanish Civil War ref1

Spanish dollars ref1

Spanish flu ref1

Spartans ref1, ref2, ref3

Spitfires ref1

Stalin, Joseph ref1

steam engines ref1

Stonehenge, Wiltshire ref1

suffrage ref1

Sui Dynasty, China ref1

Suleiman the Magnificent ref1

Sumerian civilization, Mesopotamia ref1, ref2

Sun Yat-sen ref1

T

Taiping rebellion ref1

Taj Mahal, India ref1

Tang Dynasty, China ref1, ref2, ref3

Tannenberg (1914), Battle of ref1

telegraph system ref1, ref2

telephones, invention of ref1

temples ref1, ref2, ref3

Ten Tragic Days, Mexico City ref1

Tenochtitlan, Mexico ref1, ref2, ref3

Teotihuacan, Mexico ref1

Terracotta Army, China ref1

Thirty Years War ref1

time, measurement of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan ref1

Tokyo, Japan ref1

Trafalgar (1805), Battle of ref1

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) ref1, ref2

Treaty of Paris (1783) ref1

Treaty of Versailles (1919) ref1

trench warfare, First World War ref1

tughras ref1

Tulip Mania (Tulpenwindhandel) ref1

Tull, Jethro ref1

Turkey ref1

see also Ottoman Turks

Turkey, Ancient ref1, ref2

Turks, Zengid Dynasty ref1

Turner, J. M. W. ref1

Tyler, Wat ref1

U

United Kingdom see Britain

United Nations ref1, ref2

United States of America see North America

units of measurement ref1, ref2

Uruk, Mesopotamia ref1

V

Vanderbilt, Cornelius ref1

Vedas ref1

Venice/ Venetians ref1, ref2

Verdun (1916), Battle of ref1

Vichy government, France ref1

Vienna (1814-1815), Congress of ref1

Vienna (1683), Siege of ref1

Vikings ref1

Virtruvian Man (Leonardo da Vinci) ref1

votes for women ref1

W

Wall Street Crash ref1

Wars of Independence, North American ref1, ref2

Washington, George ref1

Waterloo (1815), Battle of ref1

Watt, James ref1

Western Front, First World War ref1, ref2

Wilhelm I of Germany, Emperor ref1

William I ‘the Conqueror,’ King ref1, ref2

X

Xerxes of Persia, Emperor ref1

Xia Dynasty, China ref1

Y

Yangzhou, China ref1

Yongle, Emperor ref1

Z

zero, concept of ref1, ref2

Zeus ref1, ref2

Zhang Qian ref1

Zheng He, Admiral ref1

Zhou Dynasty, China ref1

Zhu De ref1

zodiac, signs of the ref1