World History

This is the Projeda Encyclopedia collection of knowledge on World History.

Table of Contents

The following list are links to the table of contents for specific periods of World History.

• Introduction — A brief introduction to the History of the World, the foundations of a cerebral study of history.
• World Prehistory —
• Ancient History [3000 BCE — 0] — The first phase of the human story that we can properly call World History. World History proper with the invention of writing, and the emergence of the world’s first high civilizations.
  • The Ancient History of the World
• Medieval History —
• Modern History —
• The History of the World — An alternative organizational scheme for global history focusing on cultural history of peoples and geographic regions, including the divisions of historical ages within each cultural group. Organizing national history into global divisions, In essence, Asian History into Prehistoric Asia, Ancient Asia, Modern Asia and so on, rather than organizing national histories.
• Appendix

Introduction

World Prehistory

World Prehistory [300,000 — 3000 BC]

• Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Contents

Chapter I — Basics

World Prehistory

Major Methods of Dating The Past

The Three-Age System

Chapter II — The Story of Us All

Out of Africa

The First European People

The Dispersal of Humans Across The Globe

The Neolithic Age

The Neolithic Revolution

Neolithic Humanity

Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period

The Beginning of the Neolithic in the Levant

Neolithic Asia

Neolithic Europe

Chapter III — Early Humans

Homo Erectus [beta]

Homo Bodoensis [beta]

Neanderthal Man [beta]

Homo Sapiens [beta]

Interbreeding Between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthal Man [beta]

Seafaring Neanderthal of the Mediterranean

Chapter IV — Prehistoric Languages

Chapter V — African Prehistory

Chapter VI — Asian Prehistory

The Prehistory of Asia [beta]

Prehistoric Asia [beta]

Prehistory of East Asia [beta]

Early Hominids of Asia [beta]

The Arrival of Homo Sapiens To Asia [beta]

Ancestral East Asians [beta]

The Prehistory of the Near East

Mesopotamian Prehistory [beta]

The Indus-Valley Civilization [beta]

Overview

Urban Planning

Indus-Valley Civilization Sites

The City of Bhirrana in Prehistoric India

Chinese Prehistory

Korean Prehistory

Prehistoric Korea

Mumun Pottery Period (1500 – 300 BCE)

The Korean Iron Age

Japanese Prehistory

Mongolian Prehistory

Russian Prehistory

The Prehistory of Europe

Neolithic Europe [beta]

The Megalithic Structures of Europe [beta]

#Polish-Pyramids

The Battle Axe Culture of Scandinavia [beta]

The Prehistory of the Americas

Native American History [beta]

Native American People [beta]

Native American Culture [beta]

Wigwam [beta]

Paleo-Indians [beta]

Kennewick Man [beta]

The Prehistory of Oceania

The Australian Aboriginal People [beta]

Aboriginal Australians [beta]

Rapa Nui — Easter Island [beta]

The Prehistory of Africa

Chapter X — Prehistoric Languages

Indo-European [beta]

Indo-European Languages

Connection Between Indo-European Peoples [beta]

Afro-Asiatic Languages [beta]

Uralic Languages [beta]

The End of World Prehistory

The Dawn of History [beta]

Indus-Valley Civilization [beta]

Appendix

The Effect of Competition on Speciation in the Human Lineage [I]

The History of the World

While the contents above breaks up history into specific periods based on historical ages, the following table of contents is shifted towards a cultural perspective. Divided geographically, but orientated towards the history of the individual cultures that thrived in that geographical region, organized chronologically (as best as can be achieved) within that region.

The History of the World is such from a chronological perspective, rather than a continuous cultural perspective, by period of history. We study Ancient History, then Classic History, Middle History, and finally Modern History.

• Introduction —
  • World Prehistory Introduction
  • The Three-Age System
  • The Neolithic Age
  • Neolithic Humanity
• Africa
• The Near East — The Middle East, Western Asia, Anatolia, extended to include Central Asia.
  • The Beginning of the Neolithic In The Levant
• Europe —
  • European Prehistory
  • Northern Europe
    • The Battle Axe Culture
  • The British Isles
  • Central Europe
• Oceania —
• Americas
  • Native American History
  • Tribes of the Americas
    • Algonquian Peoples
      • Myths & Legends of the Algonquian Peoples
    • Anishinaabe People
      • Anishinaabe Mythology
        • The Anishinaabe Myth of the Seven Miigis
  • Native American Culture
    • Wigwam
• Asia

A Chronological History of the World

The following takes a slightly different approach, in which the History of the World is organized by period or age, and then by culture within it. So, for example, above history is organized with a focus on geography and culture. Asian history…

This is not a comprehensive text — nor is it meant to be, since human history is too vast to be covered in its totality within a hundred thousand volumes — rather, it is a collection of pieces that mark significant periods and shifts in the ages of humanity.

The Stone Age

Paleolithic — Old Stone Age

• Paleolithic [2.5 Mya – c.20,000 BCE]
  • Early / Lower Paleolithic
  • Middle Paleolithic
  • Late / Upper Paleolithic

Mesolithic — Middle Stone Age

• Mesolithic [c.20,000 – c.10,000 BCE]

Neolithic — New Stone Age

• Neolithic [c.10,000 BCE – c.3300 BCE]
  • Neolithic Cultures of the Near East, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent
    • Heavy Neolithic
    • Shepherd Neolithic
    • Trihedral Neolithic
    • Pre-pottery A & Pre-pottery B
    • Qaraoun Culture
    • Tahunian Culture
    • Yarmukian Culture
    • Halaf Culture
    • Halaf-Ubaid Transitional Period
    • Ubaid Culture
    • Neolithic Cultures of the Nile Valley
      • Faiyum Culture
      • Tasian Culture
      • Merimde Culture
      • El Omari Culture
      • Maadi Culture
      • Badari Culture
      • Amratian Culture
  • Neolithic Cultures of Europe
    • Arzachena Culture [3000-2000 BCE]
    • Boian Culture
    • Butmir Culture
  • Neolithic Cultures of China
    • Peiligang culture
    • Pengtoushan culture
    • Beixin culture
    • Cishan culture
    • Dadiwan culture
    • Houli culture
    • Xinglongwa culture
    • Xinle culture
    • Zhaobaogou culture
    • Hemudu culture
    • Daxi culture
    • Majiabang culture
    • Yangshao culture
    • Hongshan culture
    • Dawenkou culture
    • Songze culture
    • Liangzhu culture
    • Majiayao culture
    • Qujialing culture
    • Longshan culture
    • Baodun culture
    • Shijiahe culture
    • Yueshi culture
    • Tibet

• Bronze Age
  • The Near East (including Egypt) [3300-1200 BCE]
    • Mesopotamia
    • Egypt
    • Anatolia
    • The Levant
    • Caucasus
    • Elam
    • Sistan
    • Canaan
    • Late Bronze Age Collapse
  • Indian Subcontinent [3300-1200 BCE]
    • Indus Valley Civilisation
    • Bronze Age India
    • Ochre Coloured Pottery
    • Cemetery H
  • Europe [3100-600 BCE]
    • Aegean (Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean)
    • Caucasus
    • Catacomb culture
    • Srubnaya culture
    • Beaker culture
    • Apennine culture
    • Terramare culture
    • Unetice culture
    • Tumulus culture
    • Urnfield culture
    • Proto-Villanovan culture
    • Hallstatt culture
    • Canegrate culture
    • Golasecca culture
    • Atlantic Bronze Age
    • Bronze Age Britain
    • Nordic / Scandinavian Bronze Age [1700-500 BCE]
  • East Asia [3100-300 BCE]
    • Erlitou
    • Erligang
    • Gojoseon
    • Jomon
    • Majiayao
    • Mumun
    • Qijia
    • Siwa
    • Wucheng
    • Xindian
    • Yueshi
    • Xia dynasty
    • Shang dynasty
    • Zhou dynasty
• Iron Age
  • Ancient Near East (1200-550 BCE)
  • Europe
    • Aegean 1190-700 BCE
    • Italy 1100 – 700 BCE
    • Balkans (1100 BCE – 150 CE)
    • Eastern Europe (900 – 650 BCE)
    • Central Europe (800 – 50 BCE)
    • Great Britain (800 BCE – 100 CE)
    • Northern Europe (500 BCE – 800 CE)
  • East Asia [1200 BCE – 200 BCE]
  • South Asia [500 BCE – 300 CE]

Appendix

• Glossary
  • Ethnonym

Further Reading

1. List of Neolithic Cultures of China | Wikipedia