Pre-historyAncient historySumerAncient EgyptBabyloniaAncient ArmeniaAncient GreeceAncient IndiaAncient China and Japan, Korea, MongoliaAncient Southeast Asia - Cambodia - Thailand - IndonesiaAncient North America - Iroquois, Mohawk, Huron, Haida, Lenape, Mohican, Cree, Sioux, Inuit, DeneAncient Central America - Aztecs, Maya, Olmecs, Toltecs, Teotihuacan, MixtecsAncient South America - Inca, Chimu, Tihuanacu, HuariAncient AfricaAncient AustraliaRoman EmpireChristian Rome - Justinian to the rise of ByzantiumChinese DynastiesByzantine EmpireEarly Islamic Caliphate - Muhammad to The CrusadesEarly Middle Ages - end of European Dark Ages to rise of Roman Catholic ChurchHigh Middle Ages and the Crusades - conflict with Islam, Cathars, pagan tribes in Lithuania, etc.Late Middle Ages - 13th century to 15th centuryLate Islamic Caliphate - to fall of Muslim SpainMongol EmpireRenaissance - 15th century renewal of science etc., based on texts from Ancient Greece and Roman Empire that were preserved by Muslims and captured by ChristiansEuropean colonization of the Americas - 15th century impact on AmericaBaroque era - mid 16th century to mid-late 18th centuryEnlightenment - mid 17th century to late 18th century19th century20th centuryModern History and origins of modern world power structureWorld War IWorld War IIUnited Nations ascendance - how it became so central.Chinese Revolution, Partition of India, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)US-Soviet Cold War including Korean War, Vietnam War, Soviet-Afghan WarRecent conflicts in the Muslim World - Arab-Israeli Wars, US invasion of Afghanistan, US invasion of IraqRecent conflicts in West Africa - Uganda, Chad, Rwanda, Congo, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and so on

Current events, modern economic history, modern social history and modern intellectual history take very different views of the way history has affected the way that we think today.