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洋書 - A Short History of the World

洋書

A Short History of the World (English Edition)

A Short History of the World (English Edition)

Table of contents

Preface

I. Pre-History (先史時代) The Big Bang - 3500 BC

  • The Beginning
  • Life
  • The Birth of Man and the Exploration of the Earth
  • From Hunter-gathering to Farming

II. The Ancient World (古代世界) 3500 BC - AD 500

  • The First Civilisations(文明)
  • Ancient Egypt : Land of the Pharaohs (3100 BC)
  • Civilisations in the East
  • The Hittites(ヒッタイト) : Early Ironmongers (1400-1200 BC)
  • The Olmecs(オルメカ) of Central America (1400-400 BC)
  • The Invation of the Sea Peoples (1200 BC)
  • The Hebrews
  • The Phoenicians(フェニキア) Explore the Mediterranean (1000 - 500 BC)
  • The Great Assyrian Empire
  • The Empire of Ancient Persia (550 - 330 BC)
  • Ancient Greece and the Greek City States (1000 - 330 BC)
  • Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC)
  • The Indian Mauryan Empire (321 - 185 BC)
  • Alexander's Successor Kingdoms
  • The Unification of China (221 BC)
  • The Roman Republic (509 - 27 BC)
  • Hannibal and the Punic Wars (264 - 146 BC)
  • Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BC)
  • Octavian, Mark Antony and Cleopatra
  • The Roman Empire (27 BC - AD 476/1453)
  • Some Roman Emperors, Good and Bad...
  • The Decline of Rome
  • Barbarians at the Gate
  • The End of the Roman Empire in the West (AD 476)
  • The Mayan Civilisation of Central America (AD 300 - 900)

III. The Early Middle Ages (中世前期) AD 500 - 1000

  • The Dark Ages (AD 500-800)
  • Byzantium : The Eastern Empire
  • Muhammad : The Last Prophet (AD 570-632)
  • The Fall of the Umayyad Dynasty (AD 750)
  • Early African Empires
  • The Chinese Century (AD 650-750)
  • The Islamic Golden Age (8th-11th Centuries)
  • Charlemagne (AD 742-814)
  • Viking and Norman Invasions (AD 793-1066)

IV. The Late Middle Ages (中世後期) AD 1000 - 1450

  • Challenges to the Caliphate(イスラム帝国)
  • Europe's Religious Schism(分離) (AD 1054)
  • The Crusades(十字軍) (AD 1096-1291)
  • The Mongols and Genghis Khan (13th - 15th centuries)
  • Kublai Khan (AD 1215-1294)
  • The Ascent of Moscow
  • The Legacy of the Mongols
  • The Hundred Years War in Europe (AD 1337-1453)
  • The Rise of the Ottomans(オスマン) (AD 1301)
  • Tamerlane(Timur、チムール) (AD 1336-1405)
  • The Fall of Constantinople (AD 1453)
  • Ming(明) China (AD 1368-1644)
  • The Retreat of Islam

V. The Ascent of the West (西洋の飛躍) AD 1450 - 1780

  • The Renaissance (early 15th - late 16th centuries)
  • The Age of Exploration (1450-1600)
  • Christopher Columbus (AD 1451-1506)
  • The European Reformation (1517-1598)
  • The Habsburgs take over Europe
  • The Aztecs and the Incas meet the Iron Age (1200-1520/1531)
  • Safavid Persia (1502-1732)
  • The Catholic Counter-Reformation (1545)
  • The Dutch Revolt(80年戦争) (1579-1648)
  • The English Reformation (1517-1558)
  • Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen (1533-1603)
  • The Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia(ヴェストファーレン) (1618-1648)
  • The Colonisation of North America (17th century)
  • Jamestown and the Settlement of North America (1607)
  • Sugar and the Slave Trade (15th - 19th centuries)
  • The Dutch Empire Grows...
  • ...while Spain and Portugal Decline
  • France Gains Dominance Under Louis XIV
  • England : The Beginnings of and Empire
  • Japan Closes its Doors to the World (17th century)
  • China Expands under the Manchus
  • Meanwhile in Russia...
  • The Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1871)
  • The Seven Years War (1756-1763)
  • The Europeans Dominate India
  • The American War of Independence (1775-1783)
  • Terra Australis Incognita(知られざる南方大陸)

VI. The Modern Period (近世) AD 1780 - Present

  • The French Revolution (1789-1799)
  • Napoleon Bonaparte : Emperor of the French (1799-1815)
  • The Industrial Revolution (1780s-1900)
  • Rule Britannia : Great Britain Leads the World (1815-1900)
  • The Growth of Socialism (19th century)
  • The Independence of South America (1808-1826)
  • The Rise of Nationalism and Liberalism (19th century)
  • The Great Game in Central Asia (19th century)
  • The Opium Wars（アヘン戦争）
  • Civil War in China (1851)
  • Revolution in India (1857)
  • How King Cotton led to Civil War in America (1861-1865)
  • The Expansion of America (1783-1867)
  • New Nations : Austria-Hungary, Italy and Germany (1867-1871)
  • The Scramble for Africa (1880-1914)
  • The Technological Revolution
  • The Rise of Japan (1895-1945)
  • Rebellion in China and the End of the Qing(清) (1900-1911)

VII. The 20th Century (20世紀)

  • The Bloodiest Century
  • The Russo-Japanese War(日露戦争) (1904)
  • The First World War of 'Great War' (1914-1918)
  • The Russian Revolution (1917)
  • The End of the Great War
  • The Russian Civil War (1917-1921)
  • The Rise of Fascisum and Totalitarianism
  • Changes in the East
  • The East at War (1931-1945)
  • The Second World War (1939-1945)
  • The War in the East
  • After the War
  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • The New World Order
  • Revolution in China (1949)
  • De-Stalinisation and the Space Race
  • The Great Leap Forward in China (1958-1962)
  • Vietnam and Cambodia
  • The Microchip and the Digital Revolution
  • Decolonisation : The End of Overseas Empires
  • The Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)
  • The Pendulum Turns : Europ Loses its Dominance
  • The Resurgence of Islam

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