The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History - page 1
- The Encyclopedia of World History
- The Encyclopedia of World History
- I. Prehistoric Times
- A. Introduction
- 1. History and Prehistory
- 2. The Study of Prehistory
- a. Archaeology as Anthropology and History
- b. Culture and Context
- c. Time and Space
- d. Finding and Digging up the Past
- e. Analysis and Interpretation
- f. Subdividing Prehistoric Times
- g. Theoretical Approaches to Prehistory
- B. Prehistory and the Great Ice Age
- C. Human Origins (4 Million to 1.8 Million Years Ago)
- D. Homo Erectus and the First Peopling of the World (1.8 Million to 250,000 Years Ago)
- 1. Homo Erectus
- 2. Fire
- 3. Out of Africa
- E. Early Homo Sapiens (c. 250,000 to c. 35,000 Years Ago)
- 1. The Neanderthals
- F. The Origins of Modern Humans (c. 150,000 to 100,000 Years Ago)
- G. The Spread of Modern Humans in the Old World (100,000 to 12,000 Years Ago)
- 1. Europe
- 2. Eurasia and Siberia
- 3. South and Southeast Asia
- H. The First Settlement of the Americas (c. 15,000 Years Ago)
- I. After the Ice Age: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers (12,000 Years Ago to Modern Times)
- 1. African Hunter-Gatherers
- 2. Asian Hunter-Gatherers
- 3. Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
- 4. Near Eastern Hunters and Foragers
- 5. Paleo-Indian and Archaic North Americans
- 6. Central and South Americans
- J. The Origins of Food Production
- K. Early Food Production in the Old World (c. 10,000 B.C.E. and Later)
- 1. First Farmers in the Near East
- 2. Early European Farmers
- 3. Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa
- 4. Asian Farmers
- L. The Origins of Food Production in the Americas (c. 5000 B.C.E. and Later)
- M. Later Old World Prehistory (3000 B.C.E. and Afterward)
- 1. State-Organized Societies
- 2. Webs of Relations
- 3. Later African Prehistory
- a. Egypt and Nubia
- b. West African States
- c. East and Southern Africa
- 4. Europe after 3500 B.C.E.
- 5. Eurasian Nomads
- 6. Asia
- a. South Asia
- b. China
- c. Japan
- d. Southeast Asia
- 7. Offshore Settlement in the Pacific
- N. Chiefdoms and States in the Americas (c. 1500 B.C.E.-1532 C.E.)
- 1. North American Chiefdoms
- 2. Mesoamerican Civilizations
- a. Olmec
- b. Teotihuacn
- 3. Andean Civilizations
- a. Beginnings
- b. Chavin
- c. Moche
- d. Tiwanaku
- e. Chimu
- O. The End of Prehistory (1500 C.E. to Modern Times)
- II. Ancient and Classical Periods, 3500 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.
- A. Global and Comparative Dimensions
- 1. Origins of Civilizations, 4000-2000 B.C.E.
- a. Emergence of First Civilizations
- b. Later Primary Civilizations
- c. Early, Complex Nonurban Societies
- d. Comparisons
- 2. The Growth of Civilizations, 2000-300 B.C.E.
- a. The Creation of Regionally Unified Societies
- b. Civilizations and Nonurban Societies
- c. The Axial Period
- 3. Classical Civilizations, 300 B.C.E.-500 C.E.
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