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T. Thirty Tyrants. List of time periods. Timeline of geopolitical changes (1500–1899) Timeline of geopolitical changes (1900–1999) Timeline of geopolitical changes (2000–present) Timeline of geopolitical changes (before 1500) Timeline of international climate politics.
Cultural history – study of culture in the past. Diplomatic history – study of the historical foreign policy and diplomacy of states. History of science – study of the emergence and development of scientific inquiry. Economic history – the study of economics in the past. Environmental history – study of natural history and the human ...
History is the interpretation of past events, societies and civilizations. The term history comes from the Greek historia ( ἱστορία ), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology with the English word story as narrative. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica stated that "history in the wider sense is all that has happened ...
When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies as preserved primarily through written sources. This is a list of history topics covered on English Wikipedia :
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. Historians by field of study (55 C, 1 P) History by topic (47 C, 36 P)
Conducting a little experiment, I manually removed all links to existing articles from Wikipedia:Complete list of encyclopedia topics (obsolete)/A. Before I did this, there were 730 orphan articles listed. I removed 353 links from the original 2241 links on that page, most of them to existing articles (a few were to bad article names, such as ...
Historical timelines show the significant historical events and developments for a specific topic, over the course of centuries or millennia. Graphical timelines provide a visual representation for the timespan of multiple events that have a particular duration, over the course of centuries or millennia.