[The Handy Answer Book 01] • The Handy History Answer Book by Ferguson, Rebecca -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Also from Visible Ink Press Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Chronology of Selected Events Chapter 1 - Eras and their Highlights

Prehistoric Era Stone Age Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Classical Age Greek Civilization Mycenaean Age The Roman Republic Holy Roman Empire The Middle Ages The Renaissance European Colonialism The Enlightenment The Scientific Revolution The Industrial Revolution Era of the World Wars The Cold War Early Twenty-first Century

Chapter 2 - Religion

Roman Mythology Greek Mythology Buddhism Hinduism Shinto The Bible The Hebrew Bible Christianity The Old Testament Dead Sea Scrolls The Ten Commandments Golgotha Islam The Koran Five Pillars of Faith Mecca The Crusades The Catholic Church Popes The Reformation Counter Reformation Martin Luther Jesuits The Puritans The Protestant Ethic Mother Teresa Pope John Paul II

Chapter 3 - Exploration and Settlement

Marco Polo The Vikings Christopher Columbus Cabeza de Vaca Hernando de Soto Ferdinand Magellan Sir Francis Drake Captain Cook Lost Colony Pilgrims Lewis and Clark Manifest Destiny American Immigration Northwest Passage Robert Peary Roald Amundsen Sir Edmund Hillary Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart Space Exploration

Chapter 4 - Warand Conflict

Trojan War Peloponnesian War Alexander the Great Attila the Hun Genghis Khan Hundred Years’ War Joan of Arc French and Indian War American Revolution French Revolution Napoleon War of 1812 American Civil War Spanish-American War Russian Revolution World War I Sino-Japanese War World War II Korean War Vietnam War Persian Gulf War War in the Baltics

Chapter 5 - Government and Politics

King Tut Mayan Empire Aztec Empire Roman Empire Tang Dynasty Ming Dynasty Ottoman Empire Holy Roman Empire The Romanov Dynasty Marie Antoinette Napolean Boston Tea Party Declaration of Independence U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights The American Presidency Watergate The Holocaust United Nations G-8 Mahatma Gandhi Palestine Liberation Organization Iron Curtain Office of Homeland Security

Chapter 6 - Law and Famous Trials

Roman Law Code Napolean International Law Geneva Conventions U.S. Supreme Court Racial Segregation Salem Witch Trials John Peter Zenger Dred Scott Decision Susan B. Anthony Mata Hari Scopes Monkey Trial Billy Mitchell Al Capone Nuremberg Trials Alger Hiss Rosenbergs Roe v. Wade. ABSCAM Gang of Four Nicolae Ceausescu Beltway Sniper 9/11 Conspirators

Chapter 7 - Economics and Business

Capitalism Adam Smith Monetary Systems Federal Reserve ATMs The Euro American Tobacco Industry Navigation Acts Gold Rush Oil Industry Textile Industry Bonanza Farms Bessemer Steel Department Stores Black Friday Robber Barons New York Stock Exchange Assembly Line New Deal Auto Industry Computer Industry Income Tax NAFTA Y2K Enron

Chapter 8 - Political and Social Movements

Nationalism Zionism Indian Reform Movement Solidarity Apartheid Tiananmen Square Antislavery Movement Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X Ku Klux Klan Temperance Movement Suffragist Movement Equal Rights Amendment Birth Control Movement Populism Labor Unions Beat Movement Environmental Protection

Chapter 9 - Natural and Man-Made Disasters

Volcanoes Earthquakes Tunamis Tropical Storms Hurricanes Floods Bizzards Dust Bowl Fires Titanic Hindenburg Airplane Accidents Apollo 13 Challenger Columbia Blackout of 2003 Love Canal Three Mile Island Chernobyl

Chapter 10 - Medicine and Disease

Hippocratic Oath Biological Warfare Anthrax Ancient Medicine Gray’s Anatomy Spaneous Generation Vaccines Louis Pasteur Antibiotics Florence Nightingale Red Cross Clara Barton Insulin X-ray Marie and Pierre Curie Jonas Salk Organ Transplantation Test-tube Baby Stem Cell Research Leprosy Yellow Fever AIDS The Flu Behaviorism Psychoanalysis Jungian Psychology

Chapter 11 - Philosophy

Taoism Confucius Socrates Plato Aristotle Scholasticism Sir Francis Bacon Descartes Empiricism Kant’s Philosophies Hegelian Dialect Existentialism Nietzsche Natural Law John Locke Thomas Paine Marxism Socialism Communism Fascism

Chapter 12 - Science and Invention

Pythagoras Ptolemy Copernicus Galileo Halley’s Comet Isaac Newton George Washington Carver Alfred Nobel Albert Einstein Enrico Fermi J. Robert Oppenheimer Big Bang Theory Carl Sagan Charles Darwin The Leakeys The Calendar Thomas Edison Trains Henry Ford Wright Brothers Samuel Morse Telephone Television Computer Technology Internet

Chapter 13 - Culture and Recreation

First Written Language Alphabet Invention of Paper First Book Printing Methods Johannes Gutenberg Journalism Education Folktales Poetry Novels Harlem Renaissance Harry Potter Fine Art Photography Architecture Theater Music Dance Movies Radio and Television Games Sports