The Story of World History: World History in 100 Moments

By Claude Stahl

The Story of World History

From the dawn of civilization to the height of human accomplishment and declines of empires on four continents, this compact world history book takes a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and shows you the cultural achievements of people, countries, and civ

• Language: English
• Publisher: Midealuck Publishing
• Release date: Oct 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781739950279

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History of the World

World History in 100 Moments

Claude Stahl

© Copyright 2017 by Claude Stahl

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF HUMANS AND CIVILIZATION

ANCIENT EGYPT

THE OLD KINGDOMS

THE FIRST CULTURES

EARLY DYNASTIC HISTORY

THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

THE SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

THE NEW KINGDOM PERIOD

THE HIEROGLYPHS

EGYPTIAN GODS

RAMESSES THE GREAT

MESOPOTAMIA, BABYLON, AND EGYPT

THE DECORATION OF EGYPT

THE LATE PERIOD

THE PHOENICIANS

ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION

THE CYCLADIC CIVILIZATION

THE MINOAN ERA

TOWARDS THE CLASSICAL EPOCH

SPARTA AND ATHENS

CLASSIC GREEK PHILOSOPHY

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THE STORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

A CITY AND REPUBLIC

THE PUNIC WARS

JULIUS CAESAR AND AUGUSTUS

IMPERIAL ROME

THE EARLY DYNASTIES

PAX ROMANA

THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN DYNASTY

THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY

THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS

THE DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE

CONSTANTINE AND CHRISTIANITY

UNITED FOR A LAST TIME

THE DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

THE DOWNFALL

THE EMPIRE CONTINUES TO EXIST IN THE EAST

THE EARLY AND HIGH MIDDLE AGES

RECONQUESTS UNDER ROMAN EMPEROR JUSTINIAN

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

THE FRANKISH KINGDOM AND BRITTANIA

EUROPE DID NOT BECOME ISLAMIC

THE OCCUPATION OF ITALY

CHARLEMAGNE

VIKINGS AND SARAZENES

FEUDALISM AND THE CHURCH

THE HOLY LAND OF NATIONS

THE ISLAMIC ARABS PRESS WESTWARDS

GENUA, VENICE AND THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

THE CRUSADES

THE RENAISSANCE

REVIVAL OF THE ARTS AND GREAT RENAISSANCE HUMANISTS

PRE COLOMBIAN AMERICA

THE AZTEKS AND INKAS

THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AZTEKS

THE INCAS

CUSCO

COLUMBUS  AND THE EUROPEAN CONQUESTS OF THE AMERICAS

THE AGE OF DISCOVERIES AND THE CONQUISTADORES

HERNANDEZ CORTEZ AND THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO

FRANCISCO PIZARRO - THE RUTHLESS CONQUERER OF THE INCA EMPIRE

OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS JOIN THE CONQUESTS

EUROPE'S RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS

RUSSIAN HISTORY

PETER THE GREAT

THE EARLY PERIOD OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

EARLY SETTLERS IN JAMESTOWN

THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

BATTLES WITH BRITAIN

ASIAN HISTORY

EARLY CIVILIZATIONS IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT

THE HISTORY OF INDIA

THE VALLEY CIVILIZATION

THE VEDIC PERIOD

THE ANCIENT CASTE SYSTEM

HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM

CYRUS OF PERSIA

THE INDIAN EMPIRES

THE MIDDLE KINGDOMS

THE GOLDEN ERA

THE DECLINE OF EMPIRES AND THE BEGINNING OF ISLAM

THE SULTANATE OF DELHI

HISTORY OF CHINA

HISTORIC DYNASTIES

THE SHANG DYNASTY

THE ZHOU EPOCH

THE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD AND THE WARRING STATES

THE GREAT WALL

THE CONFUCIAN SCHOOL

THE FIRST IMPERIAL PERIOD

THE TERRACOTTA ARMY

THE HAN DYNASTY

THE FALL OF THE HAN AND RISE OF THE XIN DYNASTY

THE TANG DYNASTY

THE SONG DYNASTY

GENGHIS KHAN

THE MING DYNASTY

ADMIRAL ZENG DISCOVERS NEW WORLDS

THE ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPEANS

JAPANESE HISTORY

THE AGE OF COURTIERS

THE AGE OF WARRIORS

CIVIL WAR

STABILITY AND SECLUSION

MODERNIZATION THROUGH WESTERNISATION

NORTH AMERICA

THE GREAT PROCLAMATION & BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ADVANCEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

EUROPE: MODERN 18th CENTURY ACHIEVEMENTS

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WORLD DOMINATION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS

EMERGING NATIONALISM

THE LONG 19th CENTURY

PRUSSIA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE

EUROPE - EXPANSION AND COMPETITION

LATE IMPERIAL FRANCE

THE DIVISION OF CHINA AND THE EUROPEAN COLONISATION OF AFRICA

PRELUDE TO WORLD WAR I

WORLD WAR I - THE COURSE OF THE WAR

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Although modern humans today live roughly for 200,000 years, they only began to record history from around the 3rd century BCE. 

Throughout history, new civilizations emerged and empires crumbled. We can and should rediscover old cultures that eventually lead to our own. Especially today, it is important to get an unbiased perspective of world history, to learn the basics but also the true identities of past cultures, and to understand historical timelines of countries and areas, because every country in the world boasts its own unique history and cultural identity. 

Through history, we can learn humanity, achievements, and glory by our own standards. Even through a compact book we can discover what historic glory means, and the most important civilizations all have stories to tell, from which we can draw our own personal conclusions on heritage and who we are. History never repeats itself; nevertheless, the past can guide us as we head into the future. By examining and comparing history and cultures and their timelines we will be able to get an unbiased overview of the development not only of historical events but of the development of great cultures so that today’s culture and current events make more sense. 

THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF HUMANS AND CIVILIZATION

Most scholars still agree that the African origin model holds that all or nearly all modern human genetic diversity around the world can be traced back to the first anatomically modern humans to leave Africa. 

The first Homo sapiens came out of North East Africa, approximately 70 thousand years ago, and for at least 40,000 of those years they obtained almost all of their food sources by hunting and gathering. 

This species then migrated out of Africa along a coastal route via the Arabian Peninsula to South- and Southeast Asia, and eventually reached the Pacific and Australia. About 50 thousand years ago, the first modern humans, a subspecies of Homo sapiens, migrated from Africa to Asia Minor, and over the Caucasus to Europe; regarding the history of Modern humans reached Central Europe about 40 thousand years ago. Humans also migrated to the Americas about 15 thousand years ago; most came over the land-bridge which is now called the Bering Strait. 

 The 10th millennium BC saw the invention of agriculture and the beginning of the ancient era. 

The Neolithic Age, Era or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, which included primitive tools beginning about 10,200 BC.  Hunter-gatherers of that time had access to goods and tools that prehistoric hunter-gatherers did not have, due to trade with neighboring tribes and early agrarian societies. Most modern hunter-gatherers could already forge iron, making hunting and cutting tools of stones and bones which made primitive agriculture and hunting considerably easier. 

Then, within a period of about appr.8,000 years, the great majority of humans were making their living by stock breeding and farming. This age is widely considered as the beginning of the rise of mankind.

 In the 7th millennium BC, the Jiahu culture along the Yellow River began in China. Their cultural symbols included one of the world's earliest examples in the history of writing, carved into tortoise shells and bones. By the 5th millennium BC, the late Neolithic culture in East Asia saw the invention of the wheel, the spread of proton-writing as well as evidence of metallurgy. This was also the time when the first armies, consisting of soldiers from city states were established to fight nomadic hordes. 

The 30th century BC referred to as the Early Bronze Age, saw the beginning of the literate period in Mesopotamia (Today Iraq). Widely considered to be one of the cradles of civilization in the Bronze Age, the area of Mesopotamia included the first civilizations such as the Sumer and Babylonian civilizations. 

Agriculture moved slowly from Mesopotamia into Ancient Egypt, and around the 27th century BC, the Old Kingdom of Egypt where the system of the hunter-gatherer was completely replaced by agriculture and its integrated water-management. 

ANCIENT EGYPT

Ancient Egypt is one of the most intriguing epochs of world history, as it is one of the cradles of humankind. Egypt is probably the most important ancient high-culture, that boosted and affected many others in early antiquity; until today it is seen as a mesmerizing and mystique culture, which continues to inspire mankind. 

Egypt has not always been known under its famous name. Throughout history, the country on the