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History (681 articles)

Basics (4 articles)

1. History of the world • (Level 1)
2. History (Level 2)
3. Civilization (Level 2)
4. History of Earth (Level 3)

History by continent and region (15 articles)

1. History of Europe (Level 3)
   1. History of Scandinavia
2. History of North America (Level 3)
   1. History of the Caribbean
3. History of South America (Level 3)
4. History of Africa (Level 3)
   1. History of North Africa
5. History of Oceania (Level 3)
6. History of Asia (Level 3)
   1. History of the Middle East (Level 3)
   2. History of East Asia (Level 3)
   3. History of India (Level 3)
   4. History of Southeast Asia
   5. History of Central Asia
7. History of Antarctica

History by country (41 articles)

Europe (16 articles)

1. History of Austria
2. History of the United Kingdom
   1. History of England
   2. History of Scotland
   3. History of Ireland
3. History of France
4. History of Germany
5. History of Greece
6. History of Italy
7. History of the Netherlands
8. History of Poland
9. History of Portugal
10. History of Romania
11. History of Russia
12. History of Spain
13. History of Ukraine

Americas (4 articles)

1. History of Brazil
2. History of Canada
3. History of Mexico
4. History of the United States

Africa (5 articles)

1. History of Egypt
2. History of Ethiopia
3. History of Nigeria
4. History of South Africa
5. History of Sudan

Oceania (1 article)

1. History of Australia

Asia (15 articles)

1. History of Afghanistan
2. History of China
   1. History of the People's Republic of China
3. History of the Republic of India
4. History of Japan
5. History of Korea
6. History of Indonesia
7. History of Iran
8. History of Iraq
9. History of Israel
10. History of Pakistan
11. History of the Philippines
12. History of Thailand
13. History of Turkey
14. History of Vietnam

Prehistory and ancient history (148 articles)

Prehistory (21 articles)

General (10 articles)

1. Prehistory (Level 2)
2. Human evolution
   1. Australopithecus
   2. Homo habilis
   3. Homo erectus
   4. Cro-Magnon
   5. Denisovan
   6. Neanderthal
   7. Paranthropus
3. Early human migrations (Level 3)

Stone Age (11 articles)

1. Stone Age (Level 3)
2. Paleolithic
   1. Lower Paleolithic
   2. Middle Paleolithic
      1. Control of fire by early humans
   3. Upper Paleolithic
      1. Behavioral modernity
3. Mesolithic
4. Neolithic
   1. Neolithic Revolution (Level 3)
   2. Cradle of civilization

Ancient history (127 articles)

General (8 articles)

1. Ancient history (Level 2)
2. Bronze Age (Level 3)
   1. Chalcolithic
3. Iron Age (Level 3)
4. Classical antiquity
   1. Hellenistic period
5. Late antiquity
6. Silk Road (Level 3)

Europe (31 articles)

1. Ancient Greece (Level 3)
   1. Mycenaean Greece
   2. Greco-Persian Wars
   3. Delian League
   4. Sparta
2. Ancient Rome (Level 3)
   1. Roman Kingdom
   2. Roman Republic
   3. Roman Empire
      1. Crisis of the Third Century
      2. Julio-Claudian dynasty
      3. Nerva–Antonine dynasty
      4. Western Roman Empire
      5. Fall of the Western Roman Empire
   4. Gallic Wars
   5. Macedonian Wars
   6. Crisis of the Roman Republic
3. Minoan civilization
4. Dacians
5. Etruscan civilization
6. Macedonia
7. Celts
8. Saxons
9. Sarmatians
10. Scythians
11. Thrace
12. Migration Period
    1. Alans
    2. Huns
    3. Goths
    4. Vandals

Africa (16 articles)

1. Ancient Egypt (Level 3)
   1. Naqada III
   2. Old Kingdom of Egypt
   3. Middle Kingdom of Egypt
   4. New Kingdom of Egypt
   5. Ptolemaic Kingdom
   6. Pharaoh
   7. Valley of the Kings
2. Kingdom of Aksum
3. Bantu expansion
4. Ancient Carthage
   1. Punic Wars
5. Nok culture
6. Nubia
   1. Kingdom of Kush
7. Land of Punt

Asia (61 articles)

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus (12 articles)

1. Achaemenid Empire (Level 3)
2. Atropatene
3. Bactria
4. Caucasian Albania
5. Kingdom of Iberia
6. Elam
7. Medes
8. Parthian Empire
9. Roman–Persian Wars
10. Sasanian Empire
11. Sogdia
12. Tocharians

Eastern Asia (16 articles)

1. Han dynasty (Level 3)
2. Gojoseon
3. Jomon period
4. Jin dynasty
5. Qin dynasty
6. Shang dynasty
7. Sixteen Kingdoms
8. Northern and Southern dynasties
9. Spring and Autumn period
10. Three Kingdoms
11. Three Kingdoms of Korea
12. Warring States period
13. Zhou dynasty
14. Xia dynasty
15. Xiongnu
16. Yayoi period

Southern Asia (10 articles)

1. Gupta Empire (Level 3)
2. Indus Valley Civilisation (Level 3)
3. Chola dynasty
4. Indo-Greek Kingdom
5. Indo-Scythians
6. Kushan Empire
7. Magadha
8. Maurya Empire
9. Satavahana dynasty
10. Vedic period

Southeastern Asia (3 articles)

1. H?ng Bang dynasty
2. Nanyue
3. Pyu city-states

Western Asia (20 articles)

1. Fertile Crescent
   1. Mesopotamia (Level 3)
2. Sumer (Level 3)
3. Assyria (Level 3)
4. Babylonia
   1. Chaldea
5. Akkadian Empire
6. Amorites
7. Kingdom of Armenia
8. Ebla
9. History of ancient Israel and Judah
10. Hittites
11. Lydia
12. Mitanni
13. Phoenicia
14. Phrygia
15. Seleucid Empire
16. Sabaeans
17. Trojan War
18. Urartu

Americas (11 articles)

1. Ancestral Puebloans
2. Andean civilizations (Level 3)
   1. Chavin culture
   2. Norte Chico civilization
3. Mesoamerica (Level 3)
   1. Maya civilization (Level 3)
   2. Olmec
   3. Zapotec civilization
4. Paleo-Indians
   1. Clovis culture
5. Settlement of the Americas

Post-classical history (133 articles)

General (9 articles)

1. Post-classical history (Level 2)
2. Feudalism
   1. Serfdom
3. Guild
4. Nobility
   1. Boyar
   2. Knight
      1. Chivalry
   3. Samurai

Europe (70 articles)

General (6 articles)

1. Middle Ages (Level 3)
2. Black Death (Level 3)
3. East–West Schism
4. House of Habsburg
5. House of Medici
6. Normans

Western Europe (38 articles)

1. Anglo-Saxons
2. Franks
3. Hanseatic League
4. Holy Roman Empire (Level 3)
5. Inquisition
6. Investiture Controversy
7. Kingdom of England
   1. Battle of Hastings
   2. Norman conquest of England
   3. Wars of the Roses
8. Kingdom of Germany
9. Knights Templar
10. Northern Crusades
11. Ostsiedlung
12. House of Plantagenet
13. Viking Age (Level 3)
    1. Vikings
14. Wends

Italy (7 articles)

1. Gothic War
2. Guelphs and Ghibellines
3. Lombards
4. Papal States
5. Kingdom of Sicily
6. Republic of Genoa
7. Republic of Venice

France (7 articles)

1. Capetian dynasty
2. Carolingian Empire
3. Duchy of Burgundy
4. Kingdom of France
5. Hundred Years' War
6. Francia
7. Merovingian dynasty

Spain (6 articles)

1. Al-Andalus
   1. Caliphate of Cordoba
   2. Reconquista
2. Kingdom of Aragon
3. Kingdom of Castile
4. Visigothic Kingdom

Eastern Europe and Central (26 articles)

1. Pannonian Avars
2. Kingdom of Bohemia
3. First Bulgarian Empire
4. Second Bulgarian Empire
5. Byzantine Empire (Level 3)
   1. Arab–Byzantine wars
   2. Byzantine–Bulgarian wars
   3. Byzantine–Ottoman wars
   4. Fall of Constantinople
6. Cumans
7. Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
8. Grand Duchy of Lithuania
9. Grand Duchy of Moscow
10. Kingdom of Hungary
11. Hussite Wars
12. Khazars
13. Kievan Rus'
14. Great Moravia
15. Novgorod Republic
16. Cretan War
17. Pechenegs
18. Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
19. Rurik dynasty
20. Teutonic Order
21. Vladimir-Suzdal
22. Volga Bulgaria

Africa (7 articles)

1. Ajuran Sultanate
2. Almoravid dynasty
3. Ghana Empire
4. Kanem Empire
5. Mali Empire
6. Songhai Empire
7. Trans-Saharan trade

Asia (40 articles)

Western Asia (9 articles)

1. Islamic Golden Age (Level 3)
2. Crusades (Level 3)
   1. Crusader states
3. Ottoman Empire (Level 3)
4. Abbasid Caliphate
5. Fatimid Caliphate
6. Sultanate of Rum
7. Umayyad Caliphate
8. Mamluk

Central Asia and Iran (8 articles)

1. Aq Qoyunlu
2. Gokturks
3. Golden Horde
4. Seljuk Empire
5. Kara Koyunlu
6. Muslim conquest of Persia
7. Khwarazmian dynasty
8. Uyghur Khaganate

Southern Asia (3 articles)

1. Delhi Sultanate
2. Muslim conquests of the Indian subcontinent
3. Vijayanagara Empire

Eastern Asia (13 articles)

1. An Lushan Rebellion
2. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
3. Goryeo
4. Heian period
5. Great Jin
6. Liao dynasty
7. Mongol Empire (Level 3)
8. Ninja
9. Song dynasty
10. Sui dynasty
11. Tang dynasty (Level 3)
12. Tibetan Empire
13. Yuan dynasty

Southeastern Asia (7 articles)

1. Champa
2. Khmer Empire
3. Majapahit
4. Malacca Sultanate
5. Pagan Kingdom
6. Srivijaya
7. Tr?n dynasty

Americas (7 articles)

1. Aztec (Level 3)
2. Inca Empire (Level 3)
3. Chimu culture
4. Mississippian culture
5. Moche culture
6. Pre-Columbian era
7. Wari culture

Early modern history (90 articles)

General (8 articles)

1. Age of Discovery (Level 3)
   1. Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation
2. Little Ice Age
3. Early modern period
4. Renaissance (Level 3)
5. Scientific revolution (Level 3)
6. Seven Years' War
7. Treaty of Tordesillas

Colonial empires (5 articles)

1. British Empire (Level 3)
2. French colonial empire
3. Portuguese Empire
4. Spanish Empire
5. Columbian Exchange

Europe (35 articles)

Basics (4 articles)

1. Age of Enlightenment (Level 3)
2. Reformation (Level 3)
3. Thirty Years' War
4. Counter-Reformation

Western Europe (15 articles)

1. 1755 Lisbon earthquake
2. Anglo-Dutch Wars
3. Eighty Years' War
4. Enclosure
5. English Civil War
6. French Revolution (Level 3)
   1. French Revolutionary Wars
7. French Wars of Religion
8. Huguenots
9. Italian Wars
10. Prussia
11. Puritans
12. Spanish Inquisition
13. War of the Austrian Succession
14. War of the Spanish Succession

Eastern Europe and Central (16 articles)

1. Cossacks
   1. Cossack Hetmanate
2. Crimean Khanate
3. Great Northern War
4. Great Turkish War
5. House of Romanov
6. Khanate of Kazan
7. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
   1. Partitions of Poland
   2. Union of Lublin
8. Livonian War
9. Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars
10. Ottoman wars in Europe
11. Polish–Muscovite War
12. Tsardom of Russia
    1. Oprichnina

Americas (9 articles)

1. American Revolutionary War
2. European colonization of the Americas (Level 3)
   1. British colonization of the Americas
   2. Spanish colonization of the Americas
      1. Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
      2. Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
3. French and Indian War
4. Lewis and Clark Expedition
5. Spanish American wars of independence

Africa (9 articles)

1. Slavery in Africa
2. Atlantic slave trade
3. Bornu Empire
4. Kingdom of Mutapa
5. Ashanti Empire
6. Kingdom of Kongo
7. Oyo Empire
8. Funj Sultanate of Sennar
9. Hausa Kingdoms

Asia (24 articles)

Basics (2 articles)

1. Dutch East India Company
2. East India Company

Central and Western Asia (5 articles)

1. Dzungar Khanate
2. Kazakh Khanate
3. Khanate of Bukhara
4. Khanate of Sibir
5. Safavid dynasty

Eastern and Southeastern Asia (12 articles)

1. Ayutthaya Kingdom
2. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
3. Edo period
   1. Tokugawa shogunate
4. Japanese invasions of Korea
5. Joseon
6. Lan Xang
7. Le dynasty
8. Ming dynasty
9. Qing dynasty
10. Sino-Burmese War
11. Taungoo Dynasty

Southern Asia (5 articles)

1. Great Bengal famine of 1770
2. Deccan sultanates
3. Maratha Empire
4. Mughal Empire (Level 3)
5. Sikh Empire

Modern history (174 articles)

General (35 articles)

1. Modern history (Level 2)
2. 1918 flu pandemic
3. 1973 oil crisis
4. Abolitionism (Level 3)
5. Civil rights movements
6. Cold War (Level 3)
7. Collective farming
8. Decolonization
9. Financial crisis of 2007–2008
10. Great Depression (Level 3)
11. Green Revolution
12. Industrial Revolution (Level 3)
13. Information Age
14. New Imperialism
15. Post–World War II economic expansion
16. Space exploration (Level 3)
17. Space Race
18. War on Terror
19. Women's suffrage (Level 3)
20. World War I (Level 3)
    1. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
    2. Balkans Campaign (World War I)
    3. Eastern Front (World War I)
    4. Italian Front (World War I)
    5. Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    6. Western Front (World War I)
21. World War II (Level 3)
    1. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    2. Attack on Pearl Harbor
    3. Battle of the Atlantic
    4. Eastern Front (World War II)
    5. Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    6. Pacific War
    7. Western Front (World War II)
    8. Yalta Conference

Europe (52 articles)

Basics (8 articles)

1. Austrian Empire
2. Austria-Hungary
3. Congress of Vienna
4. European integration
5. The Holocaust (Level 3)
6. Iron Curtain
7. Revolutions of 1848
8. Treaty of Versailles

Western Europe (19 articles)

1. Belgian Revolution
2. Berlin Wall
3. Dreyfus affair
4. Franco-Prussian War
5. German Confederation
6. German Empire
7. German reunification
8. Great Famine
9. Italian unification
10. July Revolution
11. Napoleonic Wars
12. Nazi Germany
    1. Nazi concentration camps
13. Paris Commune
14. Sinking of the RMS Titanic •
15. Spanish Civil War
16. The Troubles
17. Unification of Germany
18. Battle of Britain

Eastern Europe (25 articles)

1. Balkan Wars
2. Chernobyl disaster
3. Congress of Berlin
4. Crimean War
5. Czechoslovakia
6. Eastern Bloc
7. French invasion of Russia
8. Greek War of Independence
9. Hungarian Revolution of 1956
10. Polish–Soviet War
11. Prague Spring
12. 1905 Russian Revolution
13. Revolutions of 1989
14. Russian Civil War
15. Russian Empire (Level 3)
16. Russian Revolution
17. Russo-Turkish War
18. Solidarity (Polish trade union)
19. Soviet Union (Level 3)
    1. Dissolution of the Soviet Union
    2. Great Purge
    3. Gulag
    4. Holodomor
    5. Population transfer in the Soviet Union
20. Yugoslavia

Americas (22 articles)

1. American Civil War
2. American Indian Wars
3. American frontier
4. Civil Rights Movement
5. Confederate States of America
6. Cuban Missile Crisis
7. Cuban Revolution
8. Dust Bowl
9. Empire of Brazil
10. Gran Colombia
11. Haitian Revolution
12. Manhattan Project
13. Mexican War of Independence
14. Mexican Revolution
15. Mexican–American War
16. New Deal
17. Paraguayan War
18. September 11 attacks
19. Spanish–American War
20. Wall Street Crash of 1929
21. War of 1812
22. War of the Pacific

Asia (49 articles)

Eastern Asia (18 articles)

1. 1931 China floods
2. Boxer Rebellion
3. Chinese Civil War
4. Cultural Revolution
5. Empire of Japan
6. First Opium War
7. First Sino-Japanese War
8. Great Leap Forward
9. Korean War
10. Meiji Restoration
11. Russo-Japanese War
12. Second Opium War
13. Second Sino-Japanese War
    1. Nanking Massacre
14. Taiping Rebellion
15. Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
16. Unequal treaty
17. Xinhai Revolution

Southern Asia (7 articles)

1. 1970 Bhola cyclone
2. Bangladesh Liberation War
3. British Raj
4. Indian independence movement
5. Indian Rebellion of 1857
6. Partition of India
7. Sri Lankan Civil War

Southeastern Asia (11 articles)

1. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2. Dutch East Indies
3. French Indochina
4. Indonesian National Revolution
5. Nguy?n dynasty
6. Philippine–American War
7. Philippine Revolution
8. Konbaung Dynasty
9. Vietnam War
10. Khmer Rouge
11. First Indochina War

Western Asia (8 articles)

1. Arab–Israeli conflict
2. Armenian Genocide
3. Israeli Declaration of Independence
4. Gulf War
5. Iraq War
6. Israeli–Palestinian conflict
7. Turkish War of Independence
8. Young Turks

Central Asia and Iran (5 articles)

1. War in Afghanistan (1978–present)
2. The Great Game
3. Iran–Iraq War
4. Iranian Revolution
5. Persian Constitutional Revolution

Africa (16 articles)

1. Algerian War
2. Angolan Civil War
3. Anglo-Zulu War
4. Apartheid
5. Arab Spring
6. Biafra
7. Congo Free State
8. Ethiopian Civil War
9. Mahdist War
10. Nigerian Civil War
11. Rwandan genocide
12. Scramble for Africa (Level 3)
13. Second Boer War
14. Second Congo War
15. Second Italo-Ethiopian War
16. Sokoto Caliphate

Historical cities (27 articles)

Europe (2 articles)

1. Knossos
2. Pompeii

Africa (6 articles)

1. Carthage
2. Great Zimbabwe
3. Memphis
4. Meroe
5. Thebes
6. Timbuktu

Americas (5 articles)

1. Cahokia
2. Tenochtitlan
3. Teotihuacan
4. Tikal
5. Tiwanaku

Asia (14 articles)

1. Antioch
2. Babylon
3. Catalhoyuk
4. Jericho
5. Mohenjo-daro
6. Nineveh
7. Palmyra
8. Persepolis
9. Petra
10. Susa
11. Troy
12. Tyre
13. Ugarit
14. Ur

History of science and technology (21 articles)

1. History of science (Level 2)
2. History of technology (Level 3)
3. History of agriculture (Level 3)
4. History of medicine (Level 3)
5. History of mathematics (Level 3)
6. History of astronomy
7. History of biology
8. History of chemistry
9. History of communication
   1. History of writing
10. History of computing hardware
11. History of economic thought
12. History of geography
13. History of geology
    1. Geological history of Earth
14. History of linguistics
15. History of physics
16. History of psychology
17. History of sociology
18. History of transport
    1. History of aviation

History of other topics (16 articles)

1. History of art (Level 2)
2. History of architecture
3. History of atheism
4. History of film
5. Legal history
6. Evolutionary history of life
7. History of literature
8. Maritime history
9. Military history
10. History of music
11. History of religions
    1. History of Hinduism
    2. History of Buddhism
    3. Jewish history
    4. History of Christianity
    5. History of Islam

Auxiliary sciences of history (12 articles)

1. Archaeology (Level 3)
   1. Archaeological culture
   2. Excavation (archaeology)
   3. Radiocarbon dating
2. Chronology
3. Diplomatics
4. Epigraphy
5. Genealogy
6. Heraldry
7. Historiography
   1. Conspiracy theory
8. Palaeography