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Outlines (see for all subject areas)History records of past events and the way things were. It is also a field responsible for the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about the past.

History, by period (See also Timeline of world history)

Prehistory events occurring before recorded history (that is, before written records).

Colorado prehistory

Prehistoric technology technologies that emerged before recorded history (i.e., before the development of writing).

Ancient history from 3350 BCE to 500 CE

Classical antiquity long period of cultural history in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the Greco-Roman world.

Ancient Greece period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages (ca. 1100 BC) to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece. It was the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western civilization.

Ancient Rome civilization that started on the Italian Peninsula and lasted from as early as the 10th century BC to the 5th century AD. Over centuries it shifted from a monarchy to a republic to an empire which dominated South-Western Europe, South-Eastern Europe/Balkans and the Mediterranean region.

Classical architecture

Ancient India

Middle Ages (Medieval history) historical period following the Iron Age, fully underway by the 5th century and lasting to the 15th century and preceding the early Modern Era. It is the middle period in a three-period division of history: Classic, Medieval, and Modern.

Timeline of the Middle Ages Renaissance cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. It encompassed a flowering of literature, science, art, religion, and politics, and gradual but widespread educational reform.

Early modern history from 1500 to 1899

Modern history since 1900.

Globalization from ancient times to the present