By John J. Butt
The Greenwood Dictionary of global History is an essential, convenient, and straightforward to exploit A-to-Z first-stop ready-reference source delivering crucial info on over 2,000 of the main studied and demanding humans, occasions, areas, and concepts in international heritage from prehistoric to trendy instances, from all areas and epochs.
Selection of entries―which are actually worldwide of their range―was according to the tips and suggestions of enterprises and organizations akin to the nationwide Council for heritage schooling, the nationwide middle for heritage within the faculties, the realm background organization, the varsity Board global heritage complex Placement try, and lots of of the nation criteria for historical past schooling. The content material of the entries has been stored short and concise to supply a definition or basic facts.
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E. E. The Global Expansion of Islam, 624-c. E. China—The T a n g Empire, c. E. South and Mesoamerica, c. 900 Viking Homelands, c. E. Viking Attacks, Trade, and Settlement, c. E. Middle East in the Late Eleventh Century Mongol Conquests, 1206-1259 Byzantine Empire, c. 1270 The Major Crusades, c. 1100-1300 The Rise of the Aztec Empire, 1200-1500 Europe and the Mediterranean, c. 1200 Western Europe, c. 1330 The Black Death—Spread of the Bubonic Plague, 1346-1353 Expansion of the Ottoman Empire, 1328-1672 lxiv LIST OF MAPS The Hundred Years War, c.
Cape of Good Hope Carthage Congo Congo Crisis Coptic Christians Dahomey Dar es Salaam Dingiswayo Du Bois, W. E. B. Dyula Equiano, Olaudah Fanon, Franz Fashoda Fatimid Caliphate Fulani Funj Ganda Gao Ghana Great Zimbabwe Haile Selassie (see Selassie, Haile) Hausa States Houphouet-Boigny, Felix Ife Islamic Salvation Front (Front Islamique du Salut; FIS) Kaunda, Kenneth Kenyatta, Jomo Khoisan Kongo Kush xxxviii TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES Limpopo River Lumumba, Patrice Maathai, Wangari Machel, Graca Mahdist Revolution Maji Maji Mali Mandela, Nelson Mansa Musa Marrakech (Marrakesh) Mau Mau Mfecane Mobutu, Sese Seko Mombasa Muhammad I Askia Mutapa (see Mwenemutapa [Mutapa]) Mwenemutapa (Mutapa) Negritude Nkrumah, Kwame Nok Culture Nyerere, Julius OAU (Organization of African Unity) Organization of African Unity (see OAU [Organization of African Unity]) Oyo Pan-African Congresses Periplus Prester John Rhodesia Rwanda Massacres Sahara Trade Samori (see Toure, Samori) San (see Khoisan) Savannah Region Selassie, Haile Senghor, Leopold Shaka Zulu Slave Coast Slave Trade (see Atlantic Slave Trade) Songhay Swahili Timbuktu Toure, Samori Trans-Saharan Trade Tutu, Desmond Yoruba Zagwe Zaire Zanzibar Zimbabwe (see Great Zimbabwe) Zulu War (see Anglo-Zulu War) ASIA Aguinaldo, Emilio Akbar Amaterasu Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji Amur River Analects Ancestor Worship Angkor Angkor Wat Anglo-Burmese Wars An Lushan Annam Aquino, Corazon Art of War (Bingfa) Aryans Asia Minor Ashikaga Ashoka Atomic Bomb, World War II Aung San Aung San Suu Kyi Awami League Ayudhya (Ayutthaya) Babar (see Babur) Babur (Babar) Bactria Ba Jin Bakufu Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Bangladesh War Ban Gu (Pan Ku) Bannerman Banpo Ban Zhao TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES Baojia Barrangay Basho, Matsuo Beijing (Peking) Benares (Varanasi) Bhagavad Gita Bhakti Bhubaneswar Bhutan Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Black Hole of Calcutta Black Ships Bodhisattva Bombay (Mumbai) Book of Odes (Shi Jing) Borobodur Bose, Subhas Chandra Boxer Rebellion (Boxer Uprising) Brahma Brahman Brahmin Caste (Brahman Caste) Brahmo Samaj Bronze Casting in Shang Buddha (see Buddhism; Siddhartha Gautama) Buddhism Bumiputra Bunraku Theater Bushi Bushido Canton (Guangzhou) Cao Cao (Ts'ao Ts'ao) Cao Dai Caste Central Asia Chalukyas Champa Chandra Gupta Chandragupta Maurya Chandragupta II Chang'an (see Xi'an [Hsi-an]) Cheng Ho (see Zheng He [Cheng Ho]) Chiang Ching-kuo (Jiang Jingguo) Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) Chikamatsu, Monzaemon xxxix China, Republic of (see Republic of China) Chinese Characters (Hanzi) Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chinggis Khan (see Genghis Khan [Chinggis Khan]) Chola (Cola) Chongqing (Chungking) Choson Chou (see Zhou [Chou] Period) Chulalongkorn Civil Service Examinations Ci Xi (see Empress Dowager [Ci Xi]) Cloud Messenger Cola (see Chola [Cola]) Columbo Plan Comprador Confucianism Confucius Congress, Indian National Cultural Revolution (see Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) Dacca (see Dhaka [Dacca]) Daimyo Dalai Lama Dandin Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) Daoism (Taoism) Deccan Plateau Delhi Delhi Sultanate Democracy Wall Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) Devanagari Dhaka (Dacca) Dharma Diamond Sutra Dien Bien Phu Dravidians Du Fu (Tu Fu) Dutch East India Company East India Company (English) East India Company, Dutch (see Dutch East India Company) East Timor Edo xl TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES Eightfold Path Ellora, Rock Temples of E-maki Empress Dowager (Ci Xi) Eta Class Fan Kuan Faxian (Fa-hsien) Filial Piety Firearms (see Guns) Five Dynasties Flying Tigers Foot Binding Forbidden City (see Imperial City) Four Modernizations Four Noble Truths Fujiwara Period Fukuzawa Yukichi Funan Gamelan Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Ganges River Gang of Four Gautama Buddha (see Siddhartha Gautama) Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khan) Genji, Tale of Genro Ghenghis Khan (see Genghis Khan [Chinggis Khan]) Goa Gobi Desert Golden Horde Grand Canal Great Leap Forward Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Great Wall Gunboat Diplomacy Gunpowder Gunpowder Empire Guns Guo (Kuo) Guomindang (Kuomintang) Gupta Empire Haiku Han Han Feizi (Han Fei-tzu) Han Gaozu (Han Ko Tzu) Han'gul Hangzhou Hanoi Han Wudi (Wu-ti) Harappa Harappan Civilization Hara Takeshi (Hara Kei) Harsha Heavenly Mountains (see Tianshan [T'ien-shan]) Heian Period Hideyoshi Hideyoshi Invasions Himiko Hinduism Hiratsuka Raicho Hirohito Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) Hiroshima Ho Chi Minh Hojo Hojo Masako Hokkaido Hong Kong Hongwu Hong Xiuquan Hsia Dynasty (see Xia) Huainanzi (Huai-nan-tzu) Huang Kung-wang Hukbalahap Humayun Hundred Days Reform Hundred Flowers Movement Hyderabad Ichikawa Fusae J Ching (Yi Jing) Imperial City Indian Ocean Indo-Chinese War Indo-Pakistan Wars Indra Indus (see Harappan Civilization; Indus River) Indus River TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES Indus Valley (see Harappan Civilization Indus River) Inner Mongolia Inoue Kaoru Iqbal, Mohammad Itagaki Taisuke Ito Hirobumi Ito Noe Iwakura Tomomi Jainism Janissaries Japan, Occupation of Japan Inc.
1857 Africa Colonized, the Berlin Conference 1885 South America, c.
