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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Parts of the world now have sub-replacement fertility rates. [544] Public health measures and advances in medical science contributed to a sharp increase in global life expectancy at birth from about 31 years in 1900 to over 66 years in 2000. [545] [y] In 1820, 75% of humanity lived on less than one dollar a day, while in 2001 only about 20% ...
World History Encyclopedia (formerly Ancient History Encyclopedia) is a nonprofit educational company created in 2009 by Jan van der Crabben. [1] The organization publishes and maintains articles, images, videos, podcasts, and interactive educational tools related to history.
HistoryWorld is an interactive online history encyclopaedia that seeks to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines. [1] It was established by Bamber Gascoigne [2] [3] [4] who started developing it in 1994.
Microsoft's Bing was launched in 2009, more than a decade after Google's launch — and though it's come a long way since then, Bing still holds a fraction of the market share compared to Google.
World history or global history as a field of historical study examines history from a global perspective. It emerged centuries ago; some leading practitioners are Voltaire (1694–1778), Hegel (1770–1831), Karl Marx (1818–1883), Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), and Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975).
Macrohistory seeks out large, long-term trends in world history in search of ultimate patterns by a comparison of proximate details. [1] It favors a comparative or world-historical perspective to determine the roots of changes as well as the developmental paths of society or a historical process.
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