World History: A Comprehensive Reference Set
World History: A Comprehensive Reference Set
Editor: Facts on File
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-8247-6
Category: History - World history
Image Count:
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The ultimate resource for World History, this 6 volume work covers hundreds of topics on great events, notable people throughout history, and more.
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Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- Foreword
- Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Prehistoric to 600 CE)
- List of Contributors
- Chronology, Prehistory–600 CE
- Major Themes in World History, Prehistory–600 CE
- A
- Aeneid - Hunt Jeffrey M.
- Aeschylus - Kte’pi Bill.
- Aesop - Kte’pi Bill.
- Ahab and Jezebel - Whitters Mark F.
- Akhenaten and Nefertiti - Misha, Patit Paban Sudhansu S. Rath.
- Akkad - Roames James.
- Alcibiades - Walsh John.
- Alexander the Great - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Alexandria - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Alexandrian literature - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Ambrose, Saint - Gillette Gertrude.
- Ammianus Marcellinus - Mahoney Leo J.
- ancient Ethiopia - Corfield Justin.
- ancient Georgia - Phenix Robert.
- Antonines - Burns William E.
- Anyang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- apocalypticism, Jewish and Christian - Harking Angela Kim.
- Aramaeans - Feinman Peter.
- Archaic and Preclassic Periods in Mesoamerica - Schroeder M. J.
- Archaic Period, Greek - DeBolt Abbe Allen.
- Arianism - Gillette Gertrude.
- Aristophanes (playwright) - Walsh John.
- Aristotle - Walsh John.
- Ark of the Covenant - Whitters Mark F.
- Armenia - Pehnix Robert R. Jr.
- Aryan Invasions - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Ashoka - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Assyria - Wee John Zhu-En.
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Saint - Pehnix Robert R. Jr.
- Athenian predemocracy - Holst Arthur.
- Augustine, Saint - Gillette Gertrude.
- Augustus - Corfield Justin.
- Axial Age and cyclical theories - Shelley Trevor.
- B
- Babylon, early period - Wee John Zhu-En.
- Babylon, later periods - Wee John Zhu-En.
- Bactria - Kalambakal Vickey.
- Bamiyan Valley - Napier Steven.
- Ban Biao - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Baruch - Whitters Mark F.
- Basil the Great, Saint - Whitters Mark F.
- Battle of Adrianople, 378 - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Battle of Marathon - Walsh John.
- ben Zakkai, Yohanan - Whitters Mark F.
- Benedict, Saint - Gillette Gertrude.
- Bhagavad Gita - Walsh John.
- Bible translations - O’Connor M.
- Boethius - Whitters Mark F.
- book of Esther - O’Connor M.
- book of Psalms - Hobbins John.
- Book of the Dead - Walsh John.
- Boudicca - Barnhill John H.
- Brendan, Saint - Whitters Mark F.
- Buddha - Walsh John.
- Buddhism in China - Walsh John.
- Buddhist councils - Walsh John.
- buildings and engineers in ancient Rome - Corfield Justin.
- Byblos - Burns John Barclay.
- Byzantine-Persian wars, history of - Herbst Mathew.
- C
- Caesar, Julius - Corfield Justin.
- Cambyses II - Pettman Andrew.
- Cappadocians - Pehnix Robert R. Jr.
- Carthage - Corfield Justin.
- caste in Hinduism - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Cato the Younger - Baugess James S.
- cave paintings - Seelye James E. Jr.
- Celts - Kalambakal Vickey.
- Ceylon - Napier Steve.
- Chandragupta II - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Ch’angan - Wert Michael.
- choregic poetry in Ancient Greece - Murphy John F. Murphy Jr.
- Choson - Corfield Justin.
- Christian Dualism - Shafer Grant R.
- Chrysostom, Saint John - Harkins Franklin T.
- Cicero - Toth William P.
- city-states, African - Corfield Justin.
- city-states in Ancient Greece - Schwarz Marc.
- civil war in the Roman Republic - Gaeta Silvana A.
- Classic Period in Mesoamerica - Schroeder M. J.
- Classic Period, Maya - Schroeder M. J.
- classical art and architecture, Greek - Zirpolo Lilian H.
- Classical Period, Greek - DeCarlo Nicole.
- Cleisthenes of Athens - Shelley Trevor.
- Clement of Alexandria - Whitters Mark F.
- Code of Justinian - Herbst Matthew.
- colonization, ancient Greek - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Confucianism as a state ideology - Holst Arthur.
- Confucius - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Constantine the Great - Whitters Mark F.
- Constantinople - Whitters Mark F.
- Coptic Christian Church - Barnhill John H.
- Council of Nicaea - Horn, Cornelia Robert Phenix.
- Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon - Horn, Cornelia Robert Phelix.
- culture and religion in Ancient Egypt - Kte’pi Bill.
- cuneiform - Wee John Zhu-En.
- Cyclades - Murphy John F. Murphy Jr.
- Cyril of Alexandria, Saint - Keating Daniel A.
- Cyrus the Great - Pettman Andrew.
- D
- Damascus and Aleppo - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Darius I - Pettman Andrew.
- David - Whitters Mark F.
- decline and fall of ancient Rome - Fait Stefano.
- Demosthenes (Greek orator) - Walsh John.
- Desert Fathers and Mothers - Pehnix, Robert R. Jr. Cornelia Horn.
- Deuteronomy - Whitters Mark F.
- Dharma Sutras - Walsh John.
- Diadochoi - Corfield Justin.
- Diocletian - Grady James A.
- Dravidians - Davis Tim.
- Druids and Picts - Kte’pi Bill.
- Duke of Zhou - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Dunhuang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- E
- early Christianity - Choi P. Richard.
- early Judaism - Shafer Grant R.
- Ebla - Wee John Zhu-En.
- Edessa - Whitters Mark F.
- Edict of Caracalla - Corfield Justin.
- Edict of Milan - Whitters Mark F.
- Egeria - Whitters Mark F.
- Elam - Wee John Zhu-En.
- Eleusis - Murphy John F. Murphy Jr.
- Ephrem - Whitters Mark F.
- Epic of Gilgamesh - Bryant Dewayne.
- Epicureanism - Walsh John.
- Era of Division, China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Essenes - Harking Angela Kim.
- Etruscans - Barnhill John H.
- Euripides - Walsh John.
- Eusebius of Caesarea - Gillette Gertrude.
- Ezana - Purdy Elizabeth.
- F
- Faxian - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Fertile Crescent - Schumann Matt J.
- first Americans - Schroeder M. J.
- Five Classics of Confucianism - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Flavians - Burns William E.
- food gatherers and producers, prehistory - Smyntyna Olena V.
- founding of ancient Rome - Gaeta Silvana A.
- G
- Gandhara - Davis Tim.
- Ganjin - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Gaodi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Gaul - Corfield Justin.
- golden and silver ages in ancient Rome - MacGregor Kirk R.
- government in ancient Rome - Holst Arthur.
- Gracchi - Corfield Justin.
- Great Wall of China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Greek Church - Whitters Mark F.
- Greek drama - Gerber Joseph R.
- Greek mythology and pantheon - Kte’pi Bill.
- Gregory the Great, Saint - Gillette Gertrude.
- Guangwudi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Gupta dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- gymnasium and athletics in ancient Greece - Hornbuckle Adam R.
- H
- Hadrian - Kalambakal Vickey.
- Hagia Sophia - Herbst Matthew.
- Han dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hannibal - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Helen of Troy - Kalambakal Vickey.
- Helena, Flavia Julia - Gillette Gertrude.
- Hellenistic art - Barnhill John H.
- Hellenization - Kte’pi Bill.
- heresies in the ancient world - Shafer Grant R.
- Herods - Choi P. Richard.
- Hesiod - Whitters Mark F.
- Hezekiah - Whitters Mark F.
- hieroglyphics - Rubin Aaron D.
- Hindu philosophy - Walsh John.
- Hippocrates, Galen, and the Greek physicians - Thompson Lana.
- historians in ancient Rome - Carter R. O’Brian.
- historians of ancient Greece - Carter R. O’Brian.
- Hittites - Smith Eric.
- Homeric epics - Corfield Justin.
- Hundred Schools of Philosophy, China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Huns - Benne Melissa.
- Hurrians - Janzen Mark D.
- Hyksos - Kalambakal Vickey.
- I
- imperial cult in ancient Rome - Burns William E.
- indo-European language family - Smyntyna Olena V.
- Indus Valley civilization - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Israel and Judah - Whitters Mark F.
- J
- Jainism - Waskey Andrew J.
- Jerome, Saint - Harkins Franklin T.
- Jesus of Nazareth - Whitters Mark F.
- Jewish revolts against the Romans - Whitters Mark F.
- Job and theodicy - Hobbins John.
- John the Baptist, Saint - Whitters Mark F.
- Jomon culture - Walsh John.
- Josephus, Flavius - Whitters Mark F.
- Josiah - Whitters Mark F.
- Judah ha-Nasi - Whitters Mark F.
- Judges - Whitters Mark F.
- Julian the Apostate - Whitters Mark F.
- Julio-Claudian emperors - Corfield Justin.
- Justinian I - Herbst Matthew.
- K
- Kama Sutra - Walsh John.
- Kanishka - Corfield Justin.
- Kautilya - Misha, Patit Paban Sudhansu S. Rath.
- Khosrow I - Gharipour, Mohammad Faramarz Khojasteh.
- Kija - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Kingdom of God in Christianity - Whitters Mark F.
- King's Highway and Way of the Sea - Whitters Mark F.
- Kush - Terry Janice J.
- Kushan empire - Walsh John.
- L
- Laozi and Zhuangzi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- late barbarians - Richardson Annette.
- Latin Church - Whitters Mark F.
- legalism - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- legionaries - Fitzsimmons Scott.
- Leo I, Saint - Keating Daniel A.
- Leonidas - Whitters Mark F.
- libraries in the ancient world - Whitters Mark F.
- Libya - Fromherz Allen.
- Linear A and B - Waskey Andrew J.
- Lo-lang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Lu Hao - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Lucian - Itzkowitz Joel.
- Luoyang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- lyric poetry in the ancient world - Corfield Justin.
- M
- Ma Yuan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Maccabees - Whitters Mark F.
- Mahabharata - Waskey Andrew J.
- Mahavira - Walsh John.
- Maodun - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Marcus Aurelius - Richardson Annette.
- Mari - Wee John Zhu-En.
- martyrologies - Whitters Mark F.
- Mauryan Empire - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Maximus the Confessor - James E. Seelye Jr.
- Medes, Persians, and Elamites - Pettman Andrew.
- Megasthenes - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Mencius - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Meng Tian - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Meroë - Murphy John F. Murphy Jr.
- messianism - Choi P. Richard.
- Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt - Burns John Barclay.
- migration patterns of the Americas - Daugherty Kevin.
- Minoans - Derr, George Raleigh III.
- Mishnah - Whitters Mark F.
- Mittani - Mancini Jonah B.
- Mohenjo-Daro - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- monasticism - Pehnix Robert R. Jr.
- Moses - Whitters Mark F.
- Mount Sinai - Whitters Mark F.
- Mozi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Mycenae - Derr George.
- mystery cults in ancient Greece and Rome - Whitters Mark F.
- N
- Nabataeans - Whitters Mark F.
- Nebuchadnezzar II - Whitters Mark F.
- Neolithic period - Kte’pi Bill.
- Neolithic period, Andes - Schroeder M. J.
- Neoplatonism - Waskey Jack.
- Nero - Kte’pi Bill.
- Nestorius and the Nestorian Church - Whitters Mark F.
- New Comedy in ancient Greece - Gerber Joseph R.
- New Kingdom - Burns John Barclay.
- Nineveh - Whitters Mark F.
- Nubia - Barnhill John H.
- O
- Odoacer - Rezakhani Khodadad.
- Old Kingdom - Staples Jason A.
- Olmec civilization - Schroeder M. J.
- Olympic Games - Hornbuckle Adam R.
- oracle at Delphi - Shelley Trevor.
- oratory and rhetoric in ancient Greece - Staples Jason A.
- Oriental Orthodox Churches - Whitters Mark F.
- Origen - Lewis Jody Vaccaro.
- ostracism - Buis Emiliano J.
- Ostrogoths and Lombards - Burns William E.
- P
- paideia - Gerber Joseph R.
- paleoanthropology - Terry Janice J.
- Paleolithic period - Kte’pi Bill.
- Palmyra - Terry Janice J.
- Panathenaia - Buis Emiliano J.
- pantheon and mythology in ancient Rome - Bond Mark Aaron.
- Parthenon - Harper Alecia.
- Pataliputra - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- patriarchs (biblical) - Whitters Mark F.
- patricians - Derr George.
- Patrick, Saint - Whitters Mark F.
- Paul the Apostle, Saint - Choi P. Richard.
- Pax Romana - Murguía Diego I.
- Peisistratus - Walsh John.
- Pericles - Mahoney Leo J.
- persecutions of the church in the Roman Empire - Whitters Mark F.
- Persepolis, Susa, and Ecbatana - Pettman Andrew.
- Persia under the Artaxerxes - Pettman Andrew.
- Persian myth - Faramarz Khojasteh Mohammad Gharipour Mehrdad Amiri.
- Persian Wars - Walsh John.
- Petronius - Tsai S-C Kevin.
- pharaoh - Kte’pi Bill.
- Pharisees - Whitters Mark F.
- Philip II - Richardson Annette.
- Philo of Alexandria - Lewis Jody Vaccaro.
- Phoenician colonies - Schmitz Philip C.
- pilgrimage in the ancient world - Whitters Mark F.
- Platonism - Gerber Joseph R.
- poetry in ancient Rome - Corfield Justin.
- polis - Walsh John.
- Pompeii and Herculaneum - Richardson Annette.
- Pompey the Great - Corfield Justin.
- Pontius Pilate - Choi P. Richard.
- pre-Islamic Arabia - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- pre-Socratic philosophy - Waskey Andrew J.
- Preclassic Period, Maya - Schroeder M. J.
- prophets in early religious traditions - Yocum Bruce T.
- Pseudepigrapha and the Apocrypha - Whitters Mark F.
- Ptolemies - Walsh John.
- pyramids at Giza - Kalambakal Vickey.
- Pyrrhus - MacGregor Kirk R.
- Pythagoras - Walsh John.
- Q
- Qin dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Qumran - Harking Angela Kim.
- R
- Ramayana - Waskey Andrew J.
- Ramesses I - Kte’pi Bill.
- Ramesses II - Kte’pi Bill.
- Ravenna - Murphy John F. Murphy Jr.
- “Red Eyebrow” Rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- regional practices of native North Americans - Daugherty Kevin.
- religious inclinations, prehistory - Kalambakal Vickey.
- religious traditions in Ancient Africa - Corfield Justin.
- Roman Empire - Corfield Justin.
- Rosetta Stone - Terry Janice J.
- S
- Sadducees - Whitters Mark F.
- Sakyas (clan) - Walsh John.
- San and Khoikhoi tribes - Murphy John F. Murphy Jr.
- Sanskrit - Walsh John.
- Sappho - Toth William P.
- Sargon of Akkad - Roames James.
- Sassanid dynasty - Gharipour, Mohammad Faramarz Khojasteh.
- Saul - Whitters Mark F.
- scribes in the ancient world - Cogan Brian.
- Sea Peoples - Handy Lowell.
- Second Peloponnesian War - Fitzsimmons Scott.
- Second Sophistic - Walsh John.
- Seleucid Empire - Burns William E.
- Seneca the Younger - Waskey Andrew J.
- Septimius Severus - James Russell.
- Servant Songs of Isaiah - Whitters Mark F.
- Shang dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Shinto - Sukha Samaya L.
- Silk Road - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sima Qian - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Simeon Stylites, Saint - Terry Janice J.
- Six Schools of classical Hindu philosophy - Waskey Andrew J.
- Socrates - Walsh John.
- Soga (Japanese clan) - Wert Michael.
- Sogdiana - Sukha Samaya L.
- Solomon - Whitters Mark F.
- Solon - Kalambakal Vickey.
- sophism - Walsh John.
- Sophocles - Walsh John.
- Spartacus - Kalambakal Vickey.
- Stoicism - Walsh John.
- Suiko - Wert Michael.
- Sumer - Bryant Dewayne.
- Sunzi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Syracuse - Buis Emiliano J.
- Syriac culture and church - Whitters Mark F.
- T
- Talmud - Whitters Mark F.
- Tantrism - Walsh John.
- Taoism - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Teotihuacán - Schroeder M. J.
- Tetrarchy - Griffin Stephen.
- Thebes (Egypt) - Burns John Barclay.
- Themistocles - Shelley Trevor.
- Theodoric the Great - Herbst Matthew.
- Theodosius I - Herbst Matthew.
- Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism - Benne Melissa.
- Three Kingdoms (Korea) - Wert Michael.
- Three Kingdoms Period (China) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Toba (T’o-pa) dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Torah - Whitters Mark F.
- traditions and belief systems, Native American - Daugherty Kevin.
- Trajan - Gaeta Silvana A.
- Tripitaka - Walsh John.
- Triumvirates in ancient Rome - Gaeta Silvana A.
- Troy - Richardson Annette.
- Trung Sisters’ Rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Turabdin - Whitters Mark F.
- Twelve Apostles - Choi P. Richard.
- U
- Ugarit - Smith Eric.
- Ulfilas - Whitters Mark F.
- Ur - Wee John Zhu-En.
- V
- Vedas - Waskey Andrew J.
- Vedic age - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Vercingetorix - Richardson Annette.
- Visigoth kingdom of Spain - Burns William E.
- W
- Wang Mang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Wei Man - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Wen and Wu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- wisdom literature in the ancient world - Whitters Mark F.
- Wudi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- X
- Xerxes - Pettman Andrew.
- Xia dynasty (2200–1750 BCE) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Xiang Yu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Xiongnu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Xunzi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Y
- Yamato - Allsop Shelley.
- Yao, Shun, and Yu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Yayoi culture - Allsop Shelley.
- Yellow Emperor - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Yellow Turbans rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Yemen - Walsh John.
- Yuezhi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Z
- Zhang Qian - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Zhou dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Zoroastrianism - Handy Lowell.
- Support Materials
- Encyclopedia of the Medieval World (600 to 1450)
- List of Contributors
- Chronology
- Major Themes in World History, 600–1450
- A
- Abbasid dynasty - Terry Janice J.
- Abélard and Héloïse - Thompson Lana.
- A'ishah - Terry Janice J.
- al-Azhar - Terry Janice J.
- al-Ghazali - Terry Janice J.
- Albigensian Crusade - Whitters Mark F.
- Alcuin - Harkins Franklin T.
- Alfred the Great - Delph Ronald K.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib - Terry Janice J.
- Alighieri, Dante - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Almoravid dynasty - Anzalone Christopher.
- An Lushan's Rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Anglo-Normans - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Anglo-Saxon kingdoms - Hill Kevin D.
- Anglo-Saxons - Burns William E.
- Anselm, Saint - Harkins Franklin T.
- anti-Jewish pogroms in the Middle Ages - Whitters Mark F.
- architecture, culture, and the arts of Byzantine Empire - Barnhill John H.
- Ashikaga Shogunate - Corfield Justin.
- Avignon papacy - Duroff Victoria.
- B
- Bacon, Roger - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Baghdad during the Middle Ages - Grady James A.
- Bantu people and languages - Corfield Justin.
- Battle of Hattin - Walsh John.
- Battle of Talas - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Battle of Tours - Anzalone Christopher.
- Battle of Yarmuk - Terry Janice J.
- Battles of Kosovo - Terry Janice J.
- Bayezid I - Terry Janice J.
- Becket, Thomas - Richardson Annette.
- Bede the Venerable, Saint - Harkins Franklin T.
- Berbers - Anzalone Christopher.
- Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint - Cazabonne Emmanuelle.
- bhakti - Waskey Andrew J.
- Black Death - Thompson Lana.
- Blanche of Castile - Richardson Annette.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni - Duroff Victoria.
- Bohemia, 600–1450 - Hodson Brian A.
- Boniface, Saint - Whitters Mark F.
- Borobudur - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Brahma - Walsh John.
- Brunelleschi, Filippo - Gharipour, Mohammad Marietta Monaghan.
- Bruni, Leonardo - Delph Ronald K.
- Bulgar invasions - Kavalski Emilian.
- Bulgarian Empire - Kavalski Emilian.
- Burma - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Byzantine Empire, political history - Corfield Justin.
- C
- caesaropapism - Herbst Matthew.
- Canute - Richardson Annette.
- Carolingian dynasty - Martone Eric.
- Carolingian Renaissance - Murray K. Sarah-Jane.
- Celtic Christianity - Whitters Mark F.
- Chaghatay khanate - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Champa kingdom - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Champagne fairs - Hill Kevin D.
- Charlemagne - Delph Ronald K.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Chenla - Mishra Patit Paban.
- chivalry - Murray K. Sarah-Jane.
- Chola kingdom - Walsh John.
- Christian states of Spain - Corfield Justin.
- Chrysoloras, Manuel - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Cluny - Cazabonne Emmanuelle.
- Columban, Saint - James Russell.
- Concordat of Worms - Barnhill John H.
- Council of Constance - Burns William E.
- Council of Ferrara-Florence - Herbst Matthew.
- Crusades - Terry Janice J.
- Cyril and Methodios, Saints - Eyman Bryan R.
- D
- Danelaw - Hill Kevin D.
- Delhi Sultanate - Anzalone Christopher.
- dhimmi - Terry Janice J.
- Divine Caliphate and the Ummah - Anzalone Christopher.
- Donatello - Duroff Victoria.
- Donation of Pepin - Grffin Stephen.
- Dvaravati kingdom - Sukha Samaya L.
- E
- East African city-states - Murphy John F. Jr.
- educational system in medieval Europe - Harkins Franklin T.
- Edward I and II - Refford Brian.
- El Cid - Corfield Justin.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine - Delph Ronald K.
- English common law - Waskey Andrew J.
- English conquest of Wales - Crowley Mark J.
- English Peasants’ Revolt - Hill Kevin D.
- Ericsson, Leif - Fitzsimmons Scott.
- Ethiopian Empire - Whitters Mark F.
- European universities in the Middle Ages - Yocum John P.
- F
- Fatimid dynasty - Terry Janice J.
- feudalism in Europe - Holstein Alizah.
- feudalism in Japan - Savage, Ethan Mohammad Gharipour.
- Ficino, Marsilio - Boettcher Susan R.
- Firdawsi - Abazov Rafis.
- first four Caliphs - Terry Janice J.
- Five Dynasties Period - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Florentine Neoplatonism - MacGregor Kirk R.
- Franks - Hill Kevin D.
- Frederick I Barbarossa - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Fujiwara clan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- G
- Gempei War - Corfield Justin.
- Genghis Khan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Genoa - Corfield Justin.
- Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - Fromher Allen.
- Ghaznavid dynasty - Walsh John.
- Ghiberti, Lorenzo - DeBolt Abbe Allen.
- Giotto - DeBolt Abbe Allen.
- Godfrey of Bouillon - Hill Kevin D.
- gold and salt trade in Africa, 600–1450 - Fromher Allen.
- golden age of Chinese poetry - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Golden Bull of 1356 - Farrell John.
- Gothic and Romanesque architectural styles - Corfield Justin.
- Grand Canal (China) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Gratian (Italian scholar) - Urban Thomas.
- Great Schism, 1054 - Herbst Matthew.
- Greenland - Buell Paul D.
- Gregory Palamas, Saint - Eyman Bryan R.
- Gutenberg, Johannes - Mishra Patit Paban.
- H
- Habsburg dynasty - Slavin Philip.
- Hafiz - Terry Janice J.
- Hangzhou - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hanseatic League - Milliman Paul.
- Harsha - Walsh John.
- Harun al-Rashid - Terry Janice J.
- Hausa city-states - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Heian period - Sukha Samaya L.
- Henry II (of England) - Delph Ronald K.
- Henry IV (of Germany) - Zirpolo Lilian H.
- Henry the Navigator - Irvin Jeffery L. Jr.
- Henry V - Zirpolo Lilian H.
- heresies during the Middle Ages - Whitters Mark F.
- Hildegard of Bingen, Saint - Richardson Annette.
- Hindu epic literature - Newton-Matza Mitchell.
- Hojo clan - Corfield Justin.
- Holy Roman Empire, 600–1499 - Slavin Philip.
- Honen - Corfield Justin.
- Hongwu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Huaxtec people - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Hugh Capet - Slavin Philip.
- Huizong - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hülegü - Anzalone Christopher.
- Hundred Years’ War - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Hus, Jan - Waskey Andrew J.
- I
- Ibn Battutah - Attar Samar.
- Ibn Khaldun - Attar Samar.
- Ibn Rushd - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Ibn Sina - Terry Janice J.
- Ibn Taymiyya - Terry Janice J.
- Iceland and Icelandic sagas - Fitzsimmons Scott.
- iconoclasm - Herbst Matthew.
- Île-de-France - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Innocent III - DeBolt Abbe Allen.
- the Inquisition during the Middle Ages - Whitters Mark F.
- Irene - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Irish monastic scholarship, golden age of - MacGregor Kirk R.
- Islam - Terry Janice J.
- Islamic art and architecture in the golden age - al-Tawil Hashim.
- Islamic literature and music in the golden age - al-Tawil Hashim.
- Islamic science and technology in the golden age - al-Tawil Hashim.
- Ismailis - Terry Janice J.
- Italian city-states - Holstein Alizah.
- Italian Renaissance - MacGregor Kirk R.
- J
- Jin dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Joachim of Fiore - Harkins Franklin T.
- Joan of Arc - Mishra Patit Paban.
- John of Damascus, Saint - Phenix Robert R. Jr.
- K
- Kaifeng - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Kamakura Shogunate - Corfield Justin.
- Kanem-Bornu - Murphy John F. Jr.
- kanji and kana - Walsh John.
- Kemmu Restoration - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Khmer kingdom - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Kievan Rus - Sherman Heidi M.
- Kingdom of Benin - Kte'pi Bill.
- Knights Templar, Knights Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights - Jackson Phillip A.
- Kojiki and Nihon Shoki - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Koryo dynasty - Corfield Justin.
- Kublai Khan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- L
- Ladislas I, Saint - Hodson Brian A.
- Lalibela (king) - Terry Janice J.
- Latin states of the Crusades - Slavin Philip.
- Lazar Hrebeljanovic - Hodson Brian A.
- Le dynasty of Annam - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Liao dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Lithuania, Grand Duchy of - Milliman Paul.
- Lombard, Peter - Barre Elizabeth A.
- Louis IX - Whitters Mark F.
- M
- Magna Carta - Fowler Russell .
- Magyar invasions - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Mahmud of Ghazna - Anzalone Christopher.
- Maimonides - Terry Janice J.
- Majapahit kingdom - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- massacre of Constantinople - Terry Janice J.
- Mehmed I - Murphy John .
- mendicant orders during the Middle Ages - Soehner Mark.
- Merovingian dynasty - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Mesoamerica, southeastern periphery of - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Ming dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della - Gimelli Louis B.
- Mixtec and Zapotec - Thompson Lana.
- Mon - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Möngke Khan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Mongol invasions of Japan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Mongol rule of Russia - Sukha Santi.
- Moravia - Hodson Brian A.
- Moscow as Third Rome - Herbst Matthew.
- Mount Athos - Herbst Matthew.
- Muhammad - Terry Janice J.
- Muhammad of Ghur - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Murasaki Shikibu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Muslim conquest of Sind - Walsh John.
- Muslim Spain - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- N
- Nalanda - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Nanjing - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Naples - Corfield Justin.
- Nara - Walsh John.
- Neo-Confucianism - MacGregor Kirk R.
- Nevsky, Alexander - Buell Paul D.
- Nichiren - Walsh John.
- Nicholas I - James Russell.
- Norman and Plantagenet kings of England - Allen Jennifer Hudson.
- Norman Conquest - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Norman kingdoms of Italy and Sicily - Fromher Allen.
- Ögödei - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- O
- Olaf I Tryggvason - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Omar Khayyám - Terry Janice J.
- Onin War - Murphy John.
- Ottoman Empire, 1299–1453 - Terry Janice J.
- P
- Pallava dynasty - Walsh John.
- Papal States during the Middle Ages - James Russell.
- Peace and Truce of God - Espinosa Aurelio.
- Petrarch - Gimelli Louis B.
- Philip II Augustus - Delph Ronald K.
- Philip IV the Fair - Delph Ronald K.
- Pillars of Islam - Whitters Mark F.
- Pisan, Christine de - Thompson Lana.
- Poland during the Middle Ages - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Polo, Marco - Fahey David M.
- Portugal - Irvin Jeffery L. Jr.
- Postclassic period in Mesoamerica - Schroeder M. J.
- pre-Inca civilization, Andean - Schroeder M. J.
- printing in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- purana - Waskey Andrew J.
- Q
- Quetzalcoatl - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Quiché Maya - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Quran - Terry Janice J.
- R
- Rajput confederacies - Walsh John.
- Reconquest - Schroeder Michael J.
- Richard I the Lion-Hearted - Terry Janice J.
- Roman papacy during the Renaissance - MacGregor Kirk R.
- Rome during the Middle Ages - DeBolt Abbe Allen.
- S
- Saladin - Terry Janice J.
- Salutati, Coluccio - Gimelli Louis B.
- Samarkand - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- samurai - Savage, Ethan Mohammad Gharipour.
- scholasticism in medieval philosophy - Yocum John P.
- sciences and medicine in medieval Europe - Burns William E.
- Scotland - Murguía Diego I.
- Se-jong - Corfield Justin.
- Second Council of Nicaea - Baugess James S.
- Seljuk Turks - Terry Janice J.
- Shahnameh - Walsh John.
- sharia - Terry Janice J.
- Shiism - Terry Janice J.
- Shinran - Walsh John.
- Shona - Corfield Justin.
- Shotoku - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Siamese invasion of the Khmer kingdom - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Silla (Korea) - Corfield Justin.
- Siva - Waskey Andrew J.
- Song dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Song of Roland - Murray K. Sarah-Jane.
- Srivijaya empire - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Statutes of Kilkenny - Murray K. Sarah-Jane.
- Stephen I - Bauer Deborah L.
- Su Shi - Chiang Maggie.
- Sübe'etei Ba'atur - Buell Paul D.
- Sufism - Terry Janice J.
- Sui dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sukhothai - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Sundiata - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Sviatoslav - Smyntyna Olena V.
- Sylvester II - James Russell.
- T
- Taiho Code - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Taika Reforms - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Taira-Minamoto wars - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Taizong (Tang dynasty emperor) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Taizu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Tamerlane - Yahaya Nurfadzilah.
- Tamil culture - Boyle Stefany Anne.
- Tang dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Tarascan - Thompson Lana.
- Tenji - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Third and Fourth Lateran Councils - Barnhill John H.
- Thomas Aquinas, Saint - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Tibetan kingdom - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Toghon-temür - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Tolui - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Treaty of Verdun - Richardson Annette.
- Tughlaq dynasty - Wahlert Matthew H.
- U
- Uighur Empire - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Umayyad dynasty - Terry Janice J.
- Urban II - Terry Janice J.
- Urbino - Murphy John F. Jr.
- V
- Valla, Lorenzo - Gimelli Louis B.
- Venice during the Middle Ages - Corfield Justin.
- Vijayanagara Empire - Walsh John.
- Vikings in North America - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Vikings in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark - Pal Viktor.
- Vikings in Russia - Sherman Heidi M.
- Vladimir I - Herbst Matthew.
- W
- Wang Anshi - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Wang Yangming - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Wu Chao - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Wycliffe, John - Yocum John P.
- X
- Xia dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Xuanzang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Xuanzong - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Y
- Yaroslav I - Abazov Rafis.
- Yelü Chucai - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Yongle - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Yuan dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Yue Fei - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Z
- Zen Buddhism - Walsh John.
- Zheng He - Chang Kuei-sheng.
- Zhu Xi - MacGregor Kirk R.
- Zimbabwe - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Support Materials
- Encyclopedia of the First Global Age (1450 to 1750)
- List of Contributors
- Chronology
- Major Themes in World History, 1450–1750
- A
- 47 Ronin - Walsh John.
- Abahai - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Abbas I - Terry Janice J.
- absolutism in Europe - Tait Christopher.
- Ahmad Grañ - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Akan states of West Africa - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Akbar - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Alawi dynasty in Morocco - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Albuquerque, Afonso de - Corfield Justin.
- Almagro, Diego de - Schroeder Michael J.
- Altan Khan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Alvarado, Pedro de - Schroeder Michael J.
- American Indians, 1450–1750 - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Anabaptists - Franson Bruce D.
- Andean religion - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Anne - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Araucanian Indians - Schroeder Michael J.
- art and architecture, 1450–1750 - Corfield Justin.
- Ashanti empire, 1450–1750 - Rothman Norman C.
- Atahualpa - Schroeder Michael J.
- Atlantic islands of Spain and Portugal - Schroeder Michael J.
- Augsburg Confession - Franson Bruce D.
- Aurangzeb - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Aztec - Schroeder Michael J.
- B
- Babur - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Bacon, Francis - Liu Wenxi.
- Bacon's Rebellion - McCurdy John G.
- bandeirantes in Brazil - Schroeder Michael J.
- baroque tradition in Europe - Harper Alecia.
- Basin of Mexico - Schroeder Michael J.
- Battle of Mohács - Terry Janice J.
- Battle of Plassey - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Battle of Sekigahara - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Battle of the Boyne - Murphy John.
- Battles of Panipat - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Bible traditions - Whitters Mark F.
- Boabdil - Terry Janice J.
- Book of Common Prayer - Franson Bruce D.
- books of Chilam Balam - Young Ron.
- Borgia family - Rothman Norman C.
- Bourbon dynasty in Latin America - Corfield Justin.
- British North America - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Bull of Demarcation - Eckerman Nancy Pippen.
- Bushido in the Edo period - Murphy John.
- C
- Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cabot, John and Sebastian - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cabral, Pedro Álvares - Schroeder Michael J.
- cacao - Schroeder Michael J.
- caciques in Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cajamarca - Schroeder Michael J.
- Calvin, John - Franson Bruce D.
- Catholic Reformation - Dieterich D. Henry.
- Charles I - Murphy John.
- Charles II - Murphy John.
- Charles V - Rothman Norman C.
- “Christian Century” in Japan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Christina - Richardson Annette.
- Church of England - Liu Wenxi.
- Clement VII - Russell James.
- Clive, Robert - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- coca - Schroeder Michael J.
- Colbert, Jean-Baptiste - Richardson Annette.
- colonial administration of New Spain - Schroeder Michael J.
- colonization of Goa, India - Corfield Justin.
- Columbian exchange - Schroeder Michael J.
- Columbus, Christopher - Schroeder Michael J.
- conquest and colonization of Brazil - Schroeder Michael J.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus - Bailey Melanie A.
- Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Cortés, Hernán - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cossacks - Murphy John.
- Council of Brest - Eyman Bryan R.
- Council of Trent - Dieterich D. Henry.
- Cromwell, Oliver - Liu Wenxi.
- Cuauhtémoc - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cuzco - Newton-Matza M.
- D
- Delhi and Agra - Corfield Justin.
- Descartes, René - Burns William E.
- Dias, Bartolomeu - Seelye James E. Jr.
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal - Schroeder Michael J.
- Diet of Worms - Franson Bruce D.
- dissenters in England - Booth T. W.
- divine faith in Europe - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Dominican Orders in the Americas - Davis Tim.
- Dorgon - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Drake, Sir Francis - Eversole Theodore W.
- Dutch colonies and trade in Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Dutch colonies in South Africa - Swicegood Céline.
- Dutch East India Company - Walsh John.
- E
- Eck, Johann Maier von - Franson Bruce D.
- Edict of Nantes - Liu Wenxi.
- Edo period - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- Edward VI - Liu Wenxi.
- Elizabeth I - Corfield Justin.
- encomienda in Spanish America - Schroeder Michael J.
- epidemics in the Americas, 1450–1750 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Erasmus, Desiderius - Whitters Mark F.
- European conquest of northwestern South America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Ewuare the Great - Purdy Elizabeth.
- exclusion laws in Japan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal - Barre Elizabeth A.
- F
- Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- - Whitters Mark F.
- Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile - Richardson Annette.
- Francis de Sales, Saint - Whitters Mark F.
- Franciscan Orders in the Americas - Davis Tim.
- French East India Company - Su Christine.
- G
- Galileo - Burns William E.
- Gama, Vasco da - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Geneva - Boettcher Susan R.
- Genroku period in Japan - Corfield Justin.
- George I - Murphy John.
- George II - Murphy John.
- Glorious Revolution - Eversole Theodore W.
- Godunov, Boris - Murphy John.
- Great Wall of China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Guicciardini, Francesco - Gimelli Louis B.
- H
- Habsburg dynasty - Rothman Norman C.
- haciendas in colonial Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Harvard College - McCurdy John G.
- Henry IV - Richardson Annette.
- Henry VII - Kte'pi Bill.
- Henry VIII - Franson Bruce D.
- Hobbes, Thomas - Eversole Theodore W.
- Hohenzollern dynasty in Brandenburg and Prussia - Martone Eric.
- Holy Roman Empire, 1500–1750 - Corfield Justin.
- honor ideology in Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- House of Bragança - Neumann Caryn E.
- House of Stuart - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Hudson's Bay Company - Murphy John.
- Huguenots - Whitters Mark F.
- human sacrifice and the Aztec - Schroeder Michael J.
- humanism in Europe - Burns William E.
- Humayun - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hutchinson, Anne - King H. Roger.
- I
- indentured servitude in colonial America, 1450–1750 - McCurdy John G.
- indigo in the Americas, 1450–1750 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Isfahan - Terry Janice J.
- Ivan III - Murphy John.
- Ivan the Terrible - Murphy John.
- J
- Jahangir - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- James I - Murphy John.
- James II - Murphy John.
- Jamestown - McCurdy John G.
- Janissaries - Terry Janice J.
- Japanese invasion of Korea - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Jesuits in Asia - de Castro, Tony.
- Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo - Corfield Justin.
- John III - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- John III Sobieski - Boettcher Susan R.
- Julius II - Russell James.
- justification by faith - Franson Bruce D.
- K
- Kangxi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Kepler, Johannes - Mishra Patit Paban.
- King Philip's War - McCurdy John G.
- Knox, John - Franson Bruce D.
- Kongo kingdom - Corfield Justin.
- Köprülü family - Terry Janice J.
- L
- Landa, Diego de - Schroeder Michael J.
- Las Casas, Bartolomé de - Schroeder Michael J.
- late Ming dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Le dynasty - Uttam Jitendra.
- Lebna Dengel - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Leo Africanus - Terry Janice J.
- Leo X - Russell James.
- literature, 1450–1750 - Kte'pi Bill.
- Locke, John - Murphy John.
- Louis XI - Kte'pi Bill.
- Louis XIV - Murphy John.
- Louis XV - Murphy John.
- Luba-Lunda states - Kte'pi Bill.
- Luther, Martin - Franson Bruce D.
- M
- Macao and Portugal, 1450–1750 - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò - Gimelli Louis B.
- Magellan, Ferdinand - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Malinche - Bauer Deborah L.
- Mamluk dynasties in Egypt - Terry Janice J.
- Marie-Thérèse of Austria - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Maroon societies in the Americas - Schroeder Michael J.
- Mary I - Murphy John.
- Mary, Queen of Scots - Corfield Justin.
- Mary Tudor - Murphy John.
- Maryland - McCurdy John G.
- Massachusetts Bay Colony - King H. Roger.
- Mather, Increase, and Cotton Mather - Burns William E.
- Medici family - Murphy John.
- Mehmed II - Terry Janice J.
- Melancthon, Philip - Franson Bruce D.
- mercantilism - Schroeder Michael J.
- mita labor in the Andean highlands - Schroeder Michael J.
- Moctezuma II - Schroeder Michael J.
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de - Burns William E.
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de - Burns William E.
- More, Sir Thomas - Schwager Donald K.
- Mughal Empire - Murphy John.
- Münster Rebellion - Franson Bruce D.
- music, 1450–1750 - Kte'pi Bill.
- N
- Nadir Shah - Murphy John.
- Nagasaki - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- Nahua - Murphy John.
- Neo-Confucianism in Japan - Walsh John.
- New France - Ackermann Marsha E.
- New Netherland - McCurdy John G.
- Newton, Sir Isaac - Richardson Annette.
- Nurhachi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Nzinga - Purdy Elizabeth.
- O
- obrajes in colonial Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Oda Nobunaga - Corfield Justin.
- Omani empire in East Africa, 1450–1800 - Rothman Norman C.
- Oñate, Juan de - Murphy John.
- Osaka - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- Ottoman Empire, 1450–1750 - Terry Janice J.
- Ottoman-Safavid wars - Terry Janice J.
- Our Lady of Guadalupe - Schroeder Michael J.
- P
- Peace of Augsburg - Franson Bruce D.
- Peasants’ War - Franson Bruce D.
- Penn, William - McCurdy John G.
- Pernambuco - Eckerman Nancy Pippen.
- Peter the Great - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Philip II - de Ruiter, Brian.
- piracy in the Atlantic Ocean - Corfield Justin.
- Pizarro, Francisco - Schroeder Michael J.
- Popul Vuh - Murphy John.
- Portuguese and Dutch colonization of Malacca - Walsh John.
- Portuguese exploration in Africa - Osiki Omon Merry.
- Potosí - Schroeder Michael J.
- Powhatan Confederacy - de Ruiter, Brian.
- printing in Europe - Franson Bruce D.
- Protestant Reformation - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Pueblo Revolt - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Puritanism in North America - Eversole Theodore W.
- Puritans - Liu Wenxi.
- Q
- Qing dynasty tributary system - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Quietism - Franson Bruce D.
- R
- race and racism in the Americas - Schroeder Michael J.
- Rajput - Boyle Stefany Anne.
- Raleigh, Sir Walter - McCurdy John G.
- reducciones in colonial Spanish America - Schroeder Michael J.
- repartimiento in Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Revolt of the Netherlands - Corfield Justin.
- Ricci, Matteo - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Richelieu, Cardinal - Martone Eric.
- rise of the Qing dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Rites Controversy - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- S
- Sadian dynasty - Singleton Brent D.
- Safavid dynasty - Terry Janice J.
- Saint Ignatius Loyola and the Society of Jesus - Keating John H.
- Saint Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross - Cummins Susan.
- Savonarola, Girolamo - Rothman Norman C.
- Scientific Revolution - Rothman Norman C.
- Scottish Reformation - Boettcher Susan R.
- Selim II - Terry Janice J.
- Sengoku Jidai - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de - Fait Stefano.
- Seville and Cádiz - Corfield Justin.
- Shah Jahan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Shimabara Rebellion - Murphy John.
- ships and shipping, 1450–1750 - Kirk Thomas A.
- Shivaji - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Sikhism and Guru Nanak - Mishra Patit Paban.
- silver in the Americas - Schroeder Michael J.
- Sinan - Terry Janice J.
- slave trade in Africa, 1450–1750 - Cumo Christopher.
- Songhai empire - Aderinto Saheed.
- Soto, Hernando de - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Southern Ming dynasty - Corfield Justin.
- Spanish and Roman Inquisitions - Corfield Justin.
- Spanish Armada - Liu Wenxi.
- Spanish colonization of the Philippines - Walsh John.
- Spanish conquest of Central America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Spanish conquest of Mexico - Schroeder Michael J.
- Spanish conquest of Peru - Schroeder Michael J.
- Spanish conquest of the Caribbean - Schroeder Michael J.
- Spanish conquest of the Yucatán, 1502–1697 - Schroeder Michael J.
- sugarcane plantations in the Americas - Schroeder Michael J.
- Süleyman I - Terry Janice J.
- Sunni Ali - Rothman Norman C.
- Swiss Confederacy - Rothman Norman C.
- T
- Tabinshwehti - Walsh John.
- Taj Mahal - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Thirty Years’ War - Liu Wenxi.
- tobacco in colonial British America - Eckerman Nancy Pippen.
- Tokugawa bakuhan system - Grewal Jyoti.
- Tokugawa Hidetada - Grewal Jyoti.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu - Grewal Jyoti.
- Toledo y Figueroa, Francisco de - Schroeder Michael J.
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Corfield Justin.
- translation of the Bible since the Protestant Reformation - Whitters Mark F.
- Treaty of Kaikhta - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Treaty of Nerchinsk - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Treaty of Tordesillas - Schroeder Michael J.
- Tudor dynasty - de Ruiter, Brian.
- V
- Valdivia, Pedro de - Neumann Caryn E.
- Valois dynasty - Rothman Norman C.
- Vasa dynasty - Rothman Norman C.
- Vespucci, Amerigo - Schroeder Michael J.
- Viceroyalty of New Spain - Schroeder Michael J.
- Viceroyalty of Peru - Schroeder Michael J.
- voyages of discovery - Corfield Justin.
- W
- Wanli - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- War of the Austrian Succession - de Ruiter, Brian.
- War of the Spanish Succession - Martone Eric.
- wars of the Fronde - Newton-Matza M.
- Wars of the Roses - Liu Wenxi.
- William III - Rothman Norman C.
- Williams, Roger - King H. Roger.
- Winthrop, John, the elder - King H. Roger.
- witchcraft in Europe and colonial America, 1450–1750 - McCurdy John G.
- Wu Sangui - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Y
- Yi dynasty, early - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Yongzheng - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Z
- Zenger, John Peter - DeCarlo Nicole.
- Zheng Chenggong - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Zwingli, Huldrych - Franson Bruce D.
- Support Materials
- Encyclopedia of the Age of Revolution and Empire (1750 to 1900)
- List of Contributors
- Chronology
- Major Themes in World History, 1750–1900
- A
- Abd el-Kader - Terry Janice J.
- Abdülhamid II - Terry Janice J.
- abolition of slavery in the Americas - Schroeder Michael J.
- Acadian deportation - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Adams, John, and family - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Afrikaners (Boers) and Bantu in South Africa - Reed Charles V.
- al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din - Terry Janice J.
- al-Mahdi - Terry Janice J.
- Alaska purchase - Gimelli Louis B.
- Alexander I of Russia - Kte'pi Bill.
- Algeria under French rule, 1750–1900 - Terry Janice J.
- Alien and Sedition Acts - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Aligarh College - Boslaugh Sarah.
- American Indian revolts in New Spain - Schroeder Michael J.
- American Revolution - Friedman Hal.
- American temperance movement - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Andean revolts - Schroeder Michael J.
- Anglo-Burmese Wars - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Anglo-Egyptian Condominum in Sudan - Terry Janice J.
- Anglo-French agreement on Siam - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Anglo-Russian rivalry - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Anson Burlingame and the Burlingame Treaty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Arab reformers and nationalists - Terry Janice J.
- Arabian Peninsula and British imperialism - Terry Janice J.
- art and architecture, 1750–1900 - Corfield Justin.
- Asian migration to Latin America, 1750–1900 - Corfield Justin.
- Austria-Hungary - Corfield Justin.
- B
- Balkan and East European insurrections - Moll Martin.
- Banerjea, Sir Surendranath - Boslaugh Sarah.
- baroque culture in Latin America - Ruppert Kathleen.
- Battle of Omdurman - Terry Janice J.
- Beecher family - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Bismarck, Otto von - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Bolívar, Simón - Schroeder Michael J.
- Bourbon restoration - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Brahmo Samaj and Arya Samaj - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Brethren movements - Rogers Rick M.
- British East India Company - Murphy John F. Jr.
- British Empire in southern Africa - Murphy John F. Jr.
- British governors-general of India - Corfield Justin.
- British occupation of Egypt - Terry Janice J.
- C
- Canadian Confederation - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Canton system in China - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Catherine the Great - Murphy John F. Jr.
- caudillos and caudillismo - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cavour, Camillo Benso, count di - Moll Martin.
- Chakri dynasty and King Rama I - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Chicago Fire - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Chinese Exclusion Acts - Schroeder Michael J.
- Chulalongkorn - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Rogers Rick M.
- Cixi - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- “coffee revolution” - Schroeder Michael J.
- comuneros’ revolt in New Granada - Young Ronald.
- Congo Free State - Marks Sally.
- Congress of Berlin - Rothman Norman C.
- Congress of Vienna - Corfield Justin.
- Cook, James - Bussey Jennifer.
- Crimean War - Terry Janice J.
- Cuban war of independence - Schroeder Michael J.
- D
- Darwin, Charles - Corfield Justin.
- decline and fall of the Mughal dynasty - Rothman Norman C.
- decline of the Qing dynasty - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Díaz, Porfirio - Schroeder Michael J.
- Disraeli, Benjamin - Murphy John F. Jr.
- doctrine of papal infallibility - Turner William J.
- Dost Muhammad - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Douglass, Frederick - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Dreyfus Affair - Terry Janice J.
- Dutch East Indies - Corfield Justin.
- E
- Eastern Question - Terry Janice J.
- economic and political liberalism in Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- enlightened despotism in Europe - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Enlightenment - Rothman Norman C.
- Ethiopia, 1750–1950 - Rothman Norman C.
- European colonization of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - Corfield Justin.
- European diplomacy, 1750–1900 - Sagarra Steve.
- European exploration of Africa - Murphy John F. Jr.
- European exploration of the Pacific Ocean - Purdy Elizabeth.
- exploration and settlement of Australia - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- export economies in Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- F
- Fashoda incident - Terry Janice J.
- Federated Malay States - Corfield Justin.
- Fenian raids - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Ferdinand VII - Murphy John F. Jr.
- financial panics in North America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Finney, Charles Grandison - Gerard Gene C.
- First and Second Afghan Wars - Murphy John F. Jr.
- first and second banks of the United States - Ackermann Marsha E.
- First and Second Great Awakening - Haas John H.
- founding of Liberia - Ackermann Marsha E.
- founding of Uruguay - Rothman Norman C.
- Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de - Rothman Norman C.
- Franco-Prussian War and the Treaty of Frankfurt - Corfield Justin.
- Franklin, Benjamin - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Franz Joseph - Corfield Justin.
- Frederick II - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Freemasonry in North and South America - Mead Jason A.
- French conquest of Equatorial Africa - Murphy John F. Jr.
- French Indochina - Corfield Justin.
- French Revolution - Corfield Justin.
- French savants and the Napoleonic conquest of Egypt - Terry Janice J.
- Fukuzawa Yukichi - Corfield Justin.
- G
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe - Rothman Norman C.
- gauchos - Corfield Justin.
- Gilded Age - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Gladstone, William - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Gokhale, Gopal Krishna - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Gong, Prince - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Gordon, Charles George - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Government of India Act of 1858 - Corfield Justin.
- government policies concerning American Indians - Schroeder Michael J.
- Grant, Ulysses S. - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Greek War of Independence - Moll Martin.
- Guangxu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- H
- Haitian Revolution - Schroeder Michael J.
- Hamilton, Alexander - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Harris, Townsend - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Hart, Sir Robert - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hawaiian Islands - Schroeder Michael J.
- Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel - Schroeder Michael J.
- Hohenzollern dynasty - Moll Martin.
- Hong Xiuquan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Humboldt, Alexander von - Neumann Caryn E.
- Hundred Days of Reform - Chang Jiu-fong L.
- I
- imperialism and the partition of Africa - Terry Janice J.
- independence of Brazil - Bailey Melanie A.
- independence of Mexico - Schroeder Michael J.
- Indian Mutiny - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Industrial Revolution - Corfield Justin.
- Iqbal, Sir Muhammad - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Irish Potato Famine - Barnhill John H.
- Ismail Pasha - Terry Janice J.
- Italian unification - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Iturbide, Agustín de - Schroeder Michael J.
- J
- Jackson, Andrew - Nation Richard F.
- Jefferson, Thomas - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Jiaqing - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Johnstown flood - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Joseph II - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Juárez, Benito - Schroeder Michael J.
- K
- Kang Youwei - Chang Jiu-fong L.
- Khayr al-Din - Terry Janice J.
- kingdom of Buganda - Murphy John F. Jr.
- L
- La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de - Murphy John F. Jr.
- labor unions and labor movements in the United States, 1750–1900 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Latin American independence - Schroeder Michael J.
- League of the Three Emperors - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Leo XIII - Russell James.
- Leopold II - Marks Sally.
- Lewis and Clark Expedition - Gimelli Louis B.
- Li Hongzhang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Lin Zexu - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Lincoln, Abraham - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- literature, 1750–1900 - Corfield Justin.
- Lobanov-Yamagata Agreement - Kowner Rotem.
- Lord George Macartney's mission to China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Louis XVI - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty - Gimelli Louis B.
- M
- Macdonald, Sir John - Ackermann Marsha E.
- machismo and marianismo in Latin America - Fabe Amparo Pamela.
- Madison, James - Lindgjerdet Frode.
- Manifest Destiny - Gimelli Louis B.
- Maori wars - Bennett Brett.
- Maria Theresa - Ackermann, Marsha E.
- market revolution in the United States - Nation Richard F.
- Marshall, John - Mead Jason A.
- Martí, José - Schroeder Michael J.
- Marxism, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels - Grewal Jyoti.
- Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science Church - Rogers Rick M.
- Mazzini, Giuseppe - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Meiji Restoration and the Meiji era - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Metternich, Klemens von - Rothman Norman C.
- Mexico, 1823–1855 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Mexico, 1855–1876 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Midhat Pasha - Terry Janice J.
- Mississippi River and New Orleans - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Mitre, Bartolomé - Corfield Justin.
- Monroe Doctrine - Schroeder Michael J.
- Muhammad Ali - Terry Janice J.
- music, 1750–1900 - Corfield Justin.
- Muslim rebellions in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- mutiny on the Bounty - Lindgjerdet Frode.
- N
- Naoroji, Dadabhai - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Napoléon I - Corfield Justin.
- Napoléon III - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Napoleonic conquest of Egypt - Terry Janice J.
- National War in Central America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Newman, John Henry - Yap Jake.
- newspapers in North America, 1750–1900 - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Nian Rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Nightingale, Florence - Terry Janice J.
- North American immigration - Barnhill John H.
- O
- O'Higgins, Bernardo - Corfield Justin.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Omani empire in East Africa, 1800s - Rothman Norman C.
- Opium Wars - Corfield Justin.
- P
- Paine, Thomas - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Paris Commune - Eversole Theodore W.
- partitions of Poland - Corfield Justin.
- Pedro I - Eckerman Nancy Pippen.
- Pedro II - Eckerman Nancy Pippen.
- Perry, Matthew - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Pius IX - Russell James.
- Polish revolutions - Purdy Elizabeth.
- political parties in Canada - Ackermann Marsha E.
- political parties in the United States - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Portuguese colonies in Africa - Osiki Omon Merry.
- positivism in modern Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- prazeros - Rothman Norman C.
- public education in colonial America and the United States, 1690–1900 - DeCarlo Nicole J.
- Q
- Qajar dynasty - Anzalone Christopher.
- Qianlong - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- R
- Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- railroads in North America, 1840–1900 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Ranjit Singh - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Reconstruction - Gillis Delia.
- revolutions of 1848 - Eversole Theodore W.
- Rhodes, Cecil - Rothman Norman C.
- Riel, Louis, Jr. - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Rivadavia, Bernardino - Corfield Justin.
- Romanov dynasty - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Rosas, Juan Manuel de - Corfield Justin.
- Roy, Rammohun - Rothman Norman C.
- Russian conquest of Central Asia, 19th century - Purdy Elizabeth.
- Russo-Ottoman Wars - Terry Janice J.
- Russo-Turkish War and Near Eastern Crisis - Murphy John F. Jr.
- S
- Salvation Army - Rogers Rick M.
- Santa Anna, Antonio López de - Schroeder Michael J.
- Santeria - Kte'pi Bill.
- Sanusiya - Terry Janice J.
- Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino - Schroeder Michael J.
- Satsuma Rebellion - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Second and Third Republics of France - Martone Eric.
- self-government and federation of Australia - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Seven Years’ War - Friedman Hal.
- Shaka - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Siamese-Burmese wars, 18th century - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Sikh wars - de Ruiter, Brian.
- Sino-French War and the Treaty of Tianjin - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sino-Japanese War and the Treaty of Shimonoseki - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- slave revolts in the Americas - Schroeder Michael J.
- slave trade in Africa, 1750–1900 - Cumo Christopher.
- Smith, Adam - Rothman Norman C.
- social Darwinism and Herbert Spencer - Eversole Theodore W.
- socialism - Barnhill John H.
- Spanish-American War - Schroeder Michael J.
- Spanish Bourbons - Martone Eric.
- Spanish colonies in Africa - Corfield Justin.
- spheres of influence in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Statue of Liberty - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Sucre, Antonio José de - Neumann Caryn E.
- Suez Canal - Terry Janice J.
- T
- Taiping Rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de - Kte'pi Bill.
- Tanzimat and the Ottoman Empire - Terry Janice J.
- Ten Years’ War - Schroeder Michael J.
- Texas Revolution - Schroeder Michael J.
- Tilak, Bal Gangadhar - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Tokugawa shogunate, late - Murphy John F. Jr.
- Tongzhi Restoration - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Toussaint Louverture, François-Dominique - Schroeder Michael J.
- transcendentalism - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Treaties of Aigun and Beijing - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Treaty of St. Petersburg (1881) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Treaty of Waitangi - Bennett Brett.
- Triple Alliance of 1882 - Barnhill John H.
- Tunisia under French rule - Terry Janice J.
- U
- U.S. Civil War - Ackermann Marsha E.
- U.S. Constitution - Lindgjerdet Frode.
- U.S. Declaration of Independence - Schroeder Michael J.
- U.S.-Mexican War - Schroeder Michael J.
- ultramontanism - Whitters Mark F.
- Urabi revolt in Egypt - Terry Janice J.
- urbanism in Latin America - Schroeder Michael J.
- Usman Dan Fodio - Singleton Brent D.
- V
- Vatican Council I - Turner William J.
- Victor Emmanuel II - Corfield Justin.
- Victoria - Tait Christopher.
- Voltaire - Murphy John F. Jr.
- voodoo - de Ruiter, Brian.
- W
- Wahhabi movement - Eadeh Julie.
- War of 1812 - Friedman Hal.
- War of the Pacific - Schroeder Michael J.
- War of the Thousand Days - Corfield Justin.
- War of the Triple Alliance - Schroeder Michael J.
- wars leading to German unification - Rothman Norman C.
- Washington, George - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Watch Tower Society - Rogers Rick M.
- Wesley, John, and Charles - McCormick K. Steve.
- White Lotus Rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- women's suffrage and rights, 1750–1900 - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Y
- Yi dynasty, late - Corfield Justin.
- Young Ottomans and constitutionalism - Terry Janice J.
- Z
- Zeng Guofan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Zionism and Theodor Herzl - Terry Janice J.
- Zollverein - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Zuo Zongtang - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Support Materials
- Encyclopedia of the Early 20th Century (1900 to 1950)
- List of Contributors
- Chronology
- Major Themes in World History, 1900–1950
- A
- Addams, Jane - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Afrikaners - Reed Charles V.
- Aga Khan - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- Aguinaldo, Emilio - Catino Scott.
- Alessandri Palma, Arturo - Corfield Justin.
- Algeria - Terry Janice J.
- All-India Muslim League (AIML) - Mishra Patit Paban.
- alliance system - Schwarz Marc.
- Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji - Fahey David M.
- Amin, Qasim - Terry Janice J.
- Amritsar massacre - Fahey David M.
- analytic philosophy - Reed Michael H.
- anarchist movements in Europe and America - Fernandez Chino.
- Anglo-Japanese Treaty - Cavasin Nathalie.
- anti-Communist encirclement campaigns in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- appeasement policy - Sagarra Steve.
- Arab-Israeli War, 1948 - Terry Janice J.
- Arab nationalism, 1900–1950 - Terry Janice J.
- Armenians in the Ottoman Empire - Phenix Robert R. Jr.
- art and architecture, 1900–1950 - Corfield Justin.
- Atatürk, Kemal - Belliel Katie.
- Aung San - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Australia and New Zealand - Corfield Justin.
- B
- Balfour Declaration - Terry Janice J.
- Balkan wars - Kavalski Emilian.
- Bao Dai - Barnhill John H.
- Batista, Fulgencio - Seelye James E. Jr.
- Batlle y Ordóñez, José - Corfield Justin.
- Battle of Pearl Harbor - Ruppert Kathleen.
- Battle of Stalingrad - Hutchinson Daniel.
- Battles of El Alamein - Stacy Robert.
- Ben-Gurion, David - Levin Jenna.
- Black Dragon and Japanese ultranationalist societies - Benne Melissa.
- bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Barnhill John H.
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich - Franson Bruce.
- Bonus Army - Mayernik John M.
- Bose, Subhas Chandra - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Boxer Rebellion - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Brandeis, Louis - Ackermann Marsha E.
- British Mandate for Palestine - Kreutz Andrej.
- Bryan, William Jennings - Ackermann Marsha E.
- C
- Cairo Conference (1921) - Terry Janice J.
- Cairo Conference (1943) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Calles, Plutarco Elías - Corfield Justin.
- Cárdenas, Lázaro - Corfield Justin.
- Carranza, Venustiano - Corfield Justin.
- Casely-Hayford, J. E. - Bailey Melanie A.
- Chennault, Claire Lee - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Chiang Kai-shek - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Chinese Civil War, 1946–1949 - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Churchill, Winston - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Clemenceau, Georges - Cassar George.
- Comintern - Stacy Robert.
- Communist Party of Indochina (CPI) - Corfield Justin.
- Cunha, Euclides da - Corfield Justin.
- D
- De Valera, Eamon - Terry Janice J.
- Debs, Eugene Victor - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Diagne, Blaise - Terry Janice J.
- dollar diplomacy - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. - Ackermann Marsha E.
- dust bowl - Mayernik John M.
- E
- Edison, Thomas - Kte'pi Bill.
- Egyptian Revolution, 1919 - Terry Janice J.
- Einstein, Albert - Kte'pi Bill.
- Ellis Island - DeCarlo Nicole.
- Espionage and Sedition Acts - Kte'pi Bill.
- Estrada Cabrera, Manuel - Corfield Justin.
- Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and Italian aggression - Stacy Robert.
- eugenics - Ackermann Marsha E.
- existentialism - Cook Christopher M.
- F
- fascism - Corfield Justin.
- Federal Reserve System - Wahlert Matthew H.
- first and second United Fronts - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Flint sit-down strike - Mayernik John M.
- Flores Magón, Ricardo - Corfield Justin.
- Ford, Henry - Corfield Justin.
- Franco, Francisco - Corfield Justin.
- French mandate in Syria and Lebanon - Zeineddine Ramziabou.
- French West Africa (AOF) - Barnhill John H.
- Freud, Sigmund - Moll Martin.
- Freyre, Gilberto - Corfield Justin.
- G
- Galveston flood - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Gandhi, Mohandas K. - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Garvey, Marcus - Rayburn Mike.
- Geneva Conventions - von Jankowsky, Paul.
- George C. Marshall in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Gold Coast Colony - Jefferson Alphine W.
- Goldman, Emma - Eversole Theodore W.
- Gómez, Juan Vicente - Corfield Justin.
- Gompers, Samuel - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Good Neighbor Policy - Schroeder Michael J.
- Government of India Act of 1919 - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Government of India Act of 1935 - Barnhill John H.
- Great Depression, worldwide - Fait Stefano.
- Great Iraqi Revolution - Terry Janice J.
- great migrations, 1900–1950 - Corfield Justin.
- Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere - Barnhill John H.
- H
- Haganah - Eichstadt Brian M.
- Haile Selassie - Barnhill John H.
- Haitian massacre - Legg Kathleen.
- Hara Kei - Stanley Adam C.
- Harlem Renaissance - Parker David Miller.
- Hashemite dynasty in Iraq - Terry Janice J.
- Hatta, Mohammad - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl - Corfield Justin.
- Hirohito - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Hitler, Adolf - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Holocaust - Marks Sally.
- Hoover, Herbert - Mishra Patit Paban.
- House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) - Collins Tom.
- Houses of Mitsui and Mitsubishi - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Hu Han-min - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hu Shi - Chang Jiu-fong L.
- Huerta, Victoriano - Legg Kathleen.
- Husayn–McMahon correspondence - Terry Janice J.
- I
- Ibn Saud, Abd al-Aziz - Eadeh Julie.
- Indian Councils Act of 1909 - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Indian National Congress (INC) - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) - Collins Tom.
- influenza pandemic of 1918 - Stacy Robert.
- International Court of Justice (ICJ) - von Jankowsky, Paul.
- Iran-Soviet relations - Donnelly Michelle.
- Irish independence - Donnelly Michelle.
- J
- Japanese-American internment - Barnhill John H.
- Japanese constitution - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Jinnah, Mohammed Ali - Walsh John.
- Jordan, 1914–1953 - Ryan Curtis R.
- K
- Karakhan Declarations - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Kato Takaakira - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Kenseikai/Minseito and Seiyukai Parties - Stanley Adam C.
- Kerensky, Alexander - Moll Martin.
- Khilafat movement - Zaman Taymiya R.
- Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) - Walsh John.
- King-Crane Commission - Eadeh Julie.
- Kitchener, Horatio Herbert - Cassar George.
- Konoe Fumimaro - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - Schroeder Michael J.
- Kwantung Army - Lippman David H.
- L
- La Follette, Robert M. - Mayernik John M.
- Lansing-Ishii Agreement - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Lateran Treaties - Donnelly Michelle.
- Latin American cinema, 1900–1950 - Michon Heather K.
- Latin American feminism and women's suffrage - Legg Kathleen.
- Latin American import substitution - Ruppert Kathleen.
- Latin American indigenismo - Legg Kathleen.
- Latin American modernism - Aguilera Alfonso Valenzuela.
- Latin American nationalism - Aguilera Alfonso Valenzuela.
- Latin American populism - Ruppert Kathleen.
- Latin American U.S. interventions - Stacy Robert.
- Laurier, Sir Wilfrid - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Lawrence, T. E. - Eichstadt Brian M.
- League of Nations - Bailey Melanie A.
- Lebanese independence and the Confessional System - Zeineddine Ramzi Abou.
- Lenin, Vladimir - Bailey Melanie A.
- Lewis, John L. - Collins Tom.
- Lindbergh, Charles - Kte'pi Bill.
- literature, 1900–1950 - Kte'pi Bill.
- Lloyd George, David - Cassar George.
- Locarno Treaties - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Long, Huey P. - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Long March - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, first baron - Bailey Melanie A.
- Lutz, Bertha - Corfield Justin.
- Luxemburg, Rosa - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Lyautey, Louis-Hubert-Gonzalve - Eichstadt Brian M.
- Lytton Commission - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- M
- MacArthur, Douglas - Eversole Theodore W.
- Macaulay, Herbert - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Madero, Francisco - Corfield Justin.
- Maginot line - Stacy Robert.
- Manchurian incident - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Manhattan Project - Michael A. Ridge Jr.
- Mao Zedong - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- March on Rome - Bailey Melanie A.
- Mariátegui, José Carlos - Corfield Justin.
- Martí, Agustín Farabundo - Seelye James E. Jr.
- Masaryk, Tomá Garrigue - Moll Martin.
- May Fourth Movement - Chang Jiu-Fong L.
- Mexican Constitution of 1917 - Legg Kathleen.
- Mexican Insurrections - Legg Kathleen.
- Mexican Revolution - Schroeder Michael J.
- Mongolian People's Republic - Corfield Justin.
- Moroccan crises - Terry Janice J.
- motion picture industry, 1900–1950 - Corfield Justin.
- muckraking - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Mukhtar, Omar - Belliel Katie.
- Muslim Brotherhood - Terry Janice J.
- Mussolini, Benito - Fait Stefano.
- N
- Naidu, Sarojini - Mishra Patit Paban.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - Barnhill John H.
- National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA) - Bailey Melanie A.
- Nationalist Party of Indonesia (PNI) - Mishra Patit Paban.
- nature conservation in the U.S. - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Nazi Party - Boyd Collin.
- Négritude - Corfield Justin.
- Nehru, Motilal - Mishra Patit Paban.
- New Deal - Collins Tom.
- New Economic Policy (NEP) - Smyntyna Olena V.
- Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Normandy Invasion - Sagarra Steve.
- Northern Expedition - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Nuremberg laws - Raina Uta Kresse.
- Nuremberg Trials - Burke Darwin.
- Nyasaland - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- O
- Obregón, Álvaro - Corfield Justin.
- oil industry in the Middle East - Terry Janice J.
- Olympic Games - Kte'pi Bill.
- Open Door policy - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele - Moll Martin.
- Orozco, Pascual - Legg Kathleen.
- P
- Pahlavi dynasty and Shah Reza Khan - Bukovich Keith.
- Pakistan resolution - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Pan-Africanism - Barnhill John H.
- Panama Canal - Schroeder Michael J.
- Pankhurst family - Eversole Theodore W.
- Paris Peace Conferences, 1919–1923 - Marks Sally.
- Pentecostalism - Erdel Timothy Paul.
- phenomenology - Kte'pi Bill.
- Platt Amendment - Barnhill John H.
- Porfiriato dictatorship in Mexico - Aguilera Alfonso Valenzuela.
- Prestes, LuíS Carlos - Corfield Justin.
- progressive movement in the United States - Parker David Miller.
- Prohibition - Mayernik John M.
- Q
- Quezon, Manuel - Lu Soo Chun.
- R
- racial segregation and race riots in the U.S. - Barnhill John H.
- Ralaimongo, Jean - Bailey Melanie A.
- rape of Nanjing - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Red Scare - Corfield Justin.
- Rhodesia - Wall Rian.
- Rif rebellion - Eichstadt Brian M.
- Rommel, Erwin - Fitzsimmons Scott.
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor - Corfield Justin.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. - Corfield Justin.
- Roosevelt, Theodore - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Round Table Conferences - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Russian Revolution, 1905 - Ruppert Kathleen.
- Russian Revolution and Civil War - Ruppert Kathleen.
- S
- Sacco-Vanzetti trial - Eversole Theodore W.
- Saionji Kimmochi - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Salazar, António de Oliveira - Moll Martin.
- Salvadoran revolt, 1932 - Michael A. Ridge Jr.
- San Remo Agreements - Donnelly Michelle.
- Sandino, Augusto César - Schroeder Michael J.
- Sarekat Islam - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Schlieffen Plan - Hutchinson Daniel.
- Schutzstaffel (SS) - Boyd Collin.
- Scopes trial - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Scottsboro Boys - Collins Tom.
- Second Boer War - Terry Janice J.
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar - Terry Janice J.
- Shaarawi, Huda - Kayyali Randa A.
- Shandong (Shantung) Question - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Shidehara Kijuro - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Sian Incident - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Smith, Al - Parker David Miller.
- Smuts, Jan - Bennett Brett.
- Somaliland - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Somoza García, Anastasio - Schroeder Michael J.
- South African Native National Congress - Wall Rian.
- Southeast Asia - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Soviet Five Year Plan - Stacy Robert.
- Soviet purges - Martone Eric.
- Soviet society: social and cultural developments - Smyntyna Olena V.
- Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 - Eversole Theodore W.
- Stalin, Joseph - Bailey Melanie A.
- Stilwell mission - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sudan under British rule - Belliel Katie.
- Sun Yat-sen - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sykes-Picot Agreement - Terry Janice J.
- T
- Taisho - Benne Melissa.
- Tanaka Giichi - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Tanganyika - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Tenente rebellion - Corfield Justin.
- Tojo Hideki - Lippman David H.
- Tokyo Trials - Chakravarty Anuradha.
- Trans-Siberian Railroad - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Treaty of Portsmouth - Schwarz Marc.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - Parker David Miller.
- Trotsky, Leon - Eversole Theodore W.
- Trujillo, Rafael - Corfield Justin.
- Truman, Harry S. - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Tunisia, colonial-era - Terry Janice J.
- Twenty-one Demands - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Tydings-McDuffie Act - Robertson Thomas.
- U
- U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) - Kte'pi Bill.
- U.S. expatriates - Parker David Miller.
- U.S. isolationism - Richard M. Filipink Jr.
- U.S. nativism - Barnhill John H.
- U.S. occupation of Japan - Lippman David H.
- U.S. occupation of the Philippines - Catino Scott.
- Ubico y Castañeda, Jorge - Corfield Justin.
- Union of South Africa - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- United Auto Workers Union (UAW) - Barnhill John H.
- United Fruit Company - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- urbanization, 1900–1950 - Morley Ian.
- V
- Vargas, Getúlio - Legg Kathleen.
- Vasconcelos, José - Corfield Justin.
- Vichy France - Kellett Andrew.
- Villa, Pancho - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- W
- Wafd Party - Terry Janice J.
- Wang Jingwei - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- warlord era in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Washington Naval Conference - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Weimar Republic - Schlosser Nicholas J.
- Weizmann, Chaim - Terry Janice J.
- Wilson, Woodrow - Terry Janice J.
- women's suffrage and rights, 1900–1950 - Ackermann Marsha E.
- World War I - Cassar George.
- World War I reparations - Marks Sally.
- World War II - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Y
- Yalta Conference - Zolkos Magdalena.
- Yamagata Aritomo - Corfield Justin.
- Yan'an period of the Chinese Communist Party - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Young Turks - Belliel Katie.
- Yuan Shikai - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Z
- Zaghlul, Sa'd and Safia - Terry Janice J.
- Zapata, Emiliano - Schroeder Michael J.
- Zelaya, José Santos - Corfield Justin.
- Zhu De - Eberspaecher Cord.
- Zionism - Terry Janice J.
- Support Materials
- Encyclopedia of the Contemporary World (1950 to Present)
- List of Contributors
- Chronology
- Major Themes in World History, 1950–present
- A
- Afghanistan - Robertson Thomas.
- African National Congress (ANC) - Raina Uta Kresse.
- African Union (AU) - Raina Uta Kresse.
- agrarian reform in Mexico - Schroeder Michael J.
- AIDS crisis - Zolkos Magdalena.
- Akihito - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- al-Aqsa Intifada - Terry Janice J.
- Al Jazeera - Terry Janice J.
- al-Qaeda - Santoro Anthony.
- Algerian War of Independence - Terry Janice J.
- Allende, Salvador - Schroeder Michael J.
- Alliance for Progress - Schroeder Michael J.
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) - Barnhill John H.
- American Indian Movement (AIM) - Ackermann Marsha E.
- ANZUS Treaty - Neumann Caryn E.
- appropriate technology - Terry Janice J.
- Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations - Terry Janice J.
- Arab-Israeli War, 1982 - Terry Janice J.
- Arab Spring - Terry Janice J.
- Arafat, Yasir - Terry Janice J.
- Arévalo, Juan José - Schroeder Michael J.
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand - Schroeder Michael J.
- Armenia and Azerbaijan - Corfield Justin.
- arms race - Kte'pi Bill.
- art and architecture, 1950–present - Corfield Justin.
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Eversole Theodore W.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - Prono Luca.
- Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo - Schroeder Michael J.
- Assad, Hafez al- (1930-2000) and Bashar Assad (1965-) - Terry Janice J.
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Aswān Dam - Terry Janice J.
- Aung San Suu Kyi - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Awami League - Zaman Taymiya R.
- Ayub Khan, Mohammad - Mishra Patit Paban.
- B
- Ba'ath Party - Terry Janice J.
- Baghdad Pact - Zeineddine Ramzi Abou.
- Balkans, 1991–present - Kavalski Emilian.
- Baltic States, 1991–present - Hilton Laura J.
- Banda, Hastings - Benne Melissa.
- Bandung Conference - Terry Janice J.
- Bangladesh - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Bay of Pigs - Schroeder Michael J.
- Beat movement - Paker David Miller.
- Berlin blockade/airlift - Schlosser Nicholas J.
- Betancourt, Rómulo - Schroeder Michael J.
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - Prono Luca.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej - Lu Soo Chun.
- Bhutto, Benazir - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- Bhutto, Zulfikar - Mishra Patit Paban.
- biblical inerrancy - Erdel Timothy Paul.
- Black Power movement - Venkatesan Sathyaraj.
- Bolivian revolution - Schroeder Michael J.
- Bosch, Juan - Schroeder Michael J.
- Bourguiba, Habib - Eichstadt Brian M.
- Bracero Program - Schroeder Michael J.
- Brezhnev, Leonid - Corfield Justin.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Bush, George H. W. - Kte'pi Bill.
- Bush, George W. - Kte'pi Bill.
- C
- Canada after 1950 - Murguía Diego I.
- Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) - Schroeder Michael J.
- Carter, Jimmy - Kte'pi Bill.
- Castro, Fidel - Schroeder Michael J.
- Central Asia after 1991 - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Chávez, Hugo - Schroeder Michael J.
- Chiang Ching-kuo - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- “Chicago Boys” - Schroeder Michael J.
- Clinton, Bill, and Hillary Rodham Clinton - Corfield Justin.
- cold war - Kte'pi Bill.
- collapse of the Eastern bloc - Zolkos Magdalena.
- Comecon - Charles Elizabeth C.
- Commonwealth of Nations - Bennett Brett.
- counterculture in the United States and Europe, 1950–present - Prono Luca.
- Cuba, 1959–2008 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cuban migration to the United States - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cuban missile crisis - Schroeder Michael J.
- Cultural Revolution in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Cypriot War, 1974 - Eichstadt Brian M.
- D
- Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Darfur - Hilton Laura J.
- Day, Dorothy - Scholands Lucy.
- Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chen Shui-bian - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ziliotto Verónica M.
- Deng Xiaoping - Wahlert Matthew H.
- dissolution of the Soviet Union - Unger Dallace W. Jr.
- dissolution of Yugoslavia - Kavalski Emilian.
- drug wars, 1950–present - Thirkill-Mackelprang Ashley.
- Duvalier dictatorship - Schroeder Michael J.
- E
- East Timor - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Ebadi, Shirin - Kayyali Randa A.
- ecological crisis in the Sahel - Corfield Justin.
- Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) - Schroeder Michael J.
- ecumenical movement - Clark Stephen B.
- Egyptian revolution, 1952 - Terry Janice J.
- environmental disasters, 1950–present - Cavasin Nathalie.
- environmental problems, 1950–present - Michon Heather K.
- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) - Kater Nicholas.
- Eritrea - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Ethiopia, 1950–present - Ziliotto Verónica M.
- European Economic Community (EEC) - Prono Luca.
- European Union (EU) - Prono Luca.
- F
- Falklands/Malvinas War - Murguía Diego I.
- Falun Gong - Benne Melissa.
- Fanon, Frantz - Terry Janice J.
- feminism, 1950–present - Ackermann, Marsha Christopher M. Cook.
- Fonseca Amador, Carlos - Schroeder Michael J.
- Ford, Gerald - Kte'pi Bill.
- Francis I - Whitters Mark F.
- Free Speech Movement (FSM) - Barnhill John H.
- FRELIMO - Wall Rian.
- G
- Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer - Schroeder Michael J.
- Gandhi, Indira - Simmons Caleb.
- Gandhi, Rajiv, and Sonia S. - Simmons Caleb.
- Gang of Four and Jiang Qing - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Gaulle, Charles de - Bailey Melanie A.
- gay liberation movements - Boslaugh Sarah.
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) - Schroeder Michael J.
- Germany after World War II - Hilton Laura J.
- Ghana, post-independence - Jefferson Alphine W.
- globalization - Prono Luca.
- Gorbachev, Mikhail - Loewenstein Karl.
- Graham, Billy - Haas John.
- Great Leap Forward - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Great Society - Seelye James E. Jr.
- Greek Junta - Eversole Theodore W.
- Green Revolution - Barnhill John H.
- Guatemalan Civil War - Schroeder Michael J.
- Guevara, Che - Schroeder Michael J.
- H
- Hamas - Kreutz Andrej.
- Havel, Václav - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Hezbollah - Zeineddine, Ramzi Abou Timothy Rhein.
- Ho Chi Minh - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Hong Kong - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Horn of Africa - Robertson Thomas.
- Hu Jintao - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Hu Yaobang - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Huk Rebellion - Robertson Thomas.
- human rights and dissidents in China - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hundred Flowers Campaign - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Hungarian revolt - Stacy Robert.
- Hussein, Saddam - Terry Janice J.
- I
- independence movements in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Robertson Tom.
- independence of Cyprus - Eichstadt Brian M.
- India after independence - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Indo-Pakistani Wars - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Indochina Wars - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) - Schroeder Michael J.
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Schroeder Michael J.
- intifadas - Kreutz Andrej.
- Iran, 1979–present - Belliel Katie.
- Iran-Contra affair - Filipink Richard M. Jr.
- Iran hostage crisis - Bukovich Keith.
- Iran-Iraq War - Bukovich Keith.
- Iranian revolution - Terry Janice J.
- Iraq revolution - Terry Janice J.
- Iraq War - Boyd Collin.
- Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Kellett Andrew.
- Islamist movements in the 20th and 21st centuries - Terry Janice J.
- Israel - Terry Janice J.
- J
- Jesus movement - Haas John.
- Jiang Zemin - Corfield Justin.
- John Paul II - Walters R. Dennis.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. - Corfield Justin.
- Jordan, 1957–present - Ryan, Curtis R Timothy Rhein.
- K
- Karmal, Babrak - Rahimi Babak.
- Karzai, Hamid - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- Kaunda, Kenneth - Terry Janice J.
- Kennedy, John F. - Corfield Justin.
- Kenya, post-independence - Wall Rian.
- Kenyatta, Jomo - Terry Janice J.
- Khan, Liaquat Ali - Touhey Ryan.
- Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah - Bukovich Keith.
- Khrushchev, Nikita - Pennington Chris.
- Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Eversole Theodore W.
- Koizumi, Junichiro - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Korean War - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Kubitschek, Juscelino - Schroeder Michael J.
- Kurds - Rahimi Babak.
- Kuwait - Kayyali Randa A.
- Kyoto Protocol - Boslaugh Sarah.
- L
- La Violencia - Schroeder Michael J.
- Latin American culture, 1950–present - Michon Heather K.
- Latin American politics, 1950–present - Legg Kathleen.
- Latin American social issues, 1950–present - Legg Kathleen.
- Lebanese civil war - Zeineddine Ramzi Abou.
- Li Zongren - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Liberian civil wars - Boyd Collin.
- Libya - Sabki Hisham M.
- Lin Biao - Newton-Matza Mitchell.
- literature, 1950–present - Corfield Justin.
- Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio - Schroeder Michael J.
- Lumumba, Patrice - Rothman Norman C.
- M
- Macao - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Macapagal-Arroyo, Gloria - Lu Soo Chun.
- Makarios III - Eichstadt Brian M.
- Malaysia - Lewis Thomas A.
- Malcolm X - Corfield Justin.
- Mandela, Nelson - Pitman Julia.
- Manley, Michael - Schroeder Michael J.
- Marcos, Ferdinand and Imelda - Robertson Thomas.
- Marshall Plan - Sagarra Steve.
- Marshall, Thurgood - Brown Anna.
- McCarthyism - Corfield Justin.
- Meir, Golda - Levin Jenna.
- Menchú Tum, Rigoberta - Schroeder Michael J.
- Middle East religious and ethnic minorities - Rhein, Timothy Mark F. Whitters.
- military dictatorship in Brazil - Schroeder Michael J.
- Mobutu Sese Seko - Wall Rian.
- Modi, Narendra - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Montgomery bus boycott - Filipink Richard M. Jr.
- Montoneros - Schroeder Michael J.
- Morocco - Terry Janice J.
- Mossadeq, Mohammad - Nuki Mari.
- Mother Teresa - Kolodiejchuk Brian.
- Mountbatten, Louis, Lord - Eversole Theodore W.
- Mugabe, Robert - Terry Janice J.
- Musharraf, Pervez - Wahlert Matthew H.
- music, 1950–present - Corfield Justin.
- N
- Namibia - Dieter Steven.
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel - Terry Janice J.
- Ne Win - Walsh John.
- Nehru, Jawaharlal - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Nepal civil war - Fernandez Chino.
- Ngo Dinh Diem - Walsh John.
- Nguyen Van Thieu - Walsh John.
- Nicaraguan Civil War, 1982–1990 - Schroeder Michael J.
- Nicaraguan revolution - Schroeder Michael J.
- Nigeria - Eversole Theodore W.
- Nigerian-Biafran War - Fernandez Chino.
- Nimeiri, Gaafar - Eichstadt Brian M.
- Nixon, Richard - Corfield Justin.
- Nkrumah, Kwame - Terry Janice J.
- Noriega, Manuel - Schroeder Michael J.
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - Schroeder Michael J.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Fitzsimmons Scott.
- North Korea - Lu Soo Chun.
- North Vietnam - Lu Soo Chun.
- nuclear disarmament - Ridge Michael A. Jr.
- Nunavut - Ackermann Marsha E.
- Nyerere, Julius - Terry Janice J.
- O
- Olympic Games, 1950–present - Corfield Justin.
- Organization of American States (OAS) - Schroeder Michael J.
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - Terry Janice J.
- P
- Pakistan People's Party - Zaman Taymiya R.
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) - Terry Janice J.
- Park Chung Hee - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Pathet Lao - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Paz Estenssoro, Víctor - Schroeder Michael J.
- Peace Corps - Neumann Caryn E.
- People's Republic of China (PRC) - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Perón, Juan - Schroeder Michael J.
- Persian Gulf War - Belliel Katie.
- Philippine revolution - Yap Jake.
- Pinochet, Augusto - Schroeder Michael J.
- Pol Pot - Boyd Collin.
- Poland, 1980s–present - Pal Viktor.
- Portugal - Monje Scott C.
- Prague Spring - Hilton Laura J.
- presidential impeachment in the United States - Filipink Richard M. Jr.
- Putin, Vladimir - Eversole Theodore W.
- Q
- Qaddafi, Muammar al- - Eichstadt Brian M.
- Quebec sovereignty movement - Paker David Miller.
- Qutb, Sayyid - Terry Janice J.
- R
- Rabin, Yitzhak - Terry Janice J.
- Rahman, Mujibur - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Reagan, Ronald - Martone Eric.
- Republic of Angola - Ziliotto Verónica M.
- revolution and civil war in El Salvador - Schroeder Michael J.
- Rhee, Syngman - Robertson Thomas.
- Roe v. Wade - Kater Nicholas.
- Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel - Boslaugh Sarah.
- Russia - Monje Scott C.
- Rwanda-Burundi conflicts, post-independence - Corfield Justin.
- S
- Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) - Schroeder Michael J.
- Saudi Arabia - Eadeh Julie.
- School of the Americas (SOA) - Schroeder Michael J.
- Shanghai Communiqué - Ridge Michael A. Jr.
- Shastri, Lal Bahadur - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Shining Path - Schroeder Michael J.
- Singapore - Lewis Thomas A.
- Singh, Manmohan - Touhey Ryan.
- Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1950 - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Sino-Vietnamese War - Walsh John.
- Six-Day War - Terry Janice J.
- Solidarity movement - Stacy Robert.
- Somalia, post-independence - Corfield Justin.
- South Korea - Lu Soo Chun.
- South Vietnam - Walsh John.
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Southern Baptist Convention - Haas John.
- space exploration - Lewis Thomas A.
- Spain post-World War II - Thirkill-Mackelprang Ashley.
- Sri Lanka - Mishra Patit Paban.
- St. Lawrence Seaway - Mayernik John M.
- student movements in the United States - Paker David Miller.
- suburbanization in the United States - Paker David Miller.
- Sudanese civil wars - Belliel Katie.
- Suez crisis - Terry Janice J.
- Suharto - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Sukarno - Mishra Patit Paban.
- T
- Taiwan - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Taliban - Zaman Taymiya R.
- Tamil Tigers - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Tashkent Declaration - Walsh John.
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Whitter Mark F.
- territorial disputes in East and Southeast Asia - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- terrorism, 1950–present - Terry Janice J.
- Thatcher, Margaret - Fahey David M.
- “Third World” - Terry Janice J.
- Tiananmen Square massacre - Golson Geoffrey.
- Tibetan Revolt - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Tito - Kavalski Emilian.
- Tlatelolco massacre - Schroeder Michael J.
- Togo - Hamm Jean Shepherd.
- Torrijos, Omar - Schroeder Michael J.
- Touré, Ahmed Sékou - Eversole Theodore W.
- Treaty of San Francisco - Robertson Thomas.
- Trudeau, Pierre - Cook Christopher M.
- Turabi, Hassan al- - Terry Janice J.
- Turkey, 1950–present - Belliel Katie.
- U
- U Nu - Walsh John.
- U.S. baby boom - Paker David Miller.
- U.S.–China diplomacy in the 1970s - Pradhan R. G.
- U.S. Civil Rights movement - Barnhill John H.
- U.S. interstate highway system - Mayernik John M.
- U.S. invasion of Grenada - Schroeder Michael J.
- U.S.–Japan Mutual Defense Treaty - Fitzsimmons Dan.
- U.S.–South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty - Santoro Anthony.
- U.S.–Taiwan Mutual Defense Treaty - Fitzsimmons Dan.
- Uganda - Wall Rian.
- Ukraine - Smyntyna Olena V.
- United Arab Emirates (UAE) - Eadeh Julie.
- United Arab Republic (UAR) - Terry Janice J.
- United Nations (UN) - Pradhan R. G.
- V
- Vajpayee, Atal Bihari - Prono Luca.
- Vatican Council II - Clark Stephen B.
- Velasco Ibarra, José - Schroeder Michael J.
- Vietnam War - Seelye James E. Jr.
- Vo Nguyen Giap - Seelye James E. Jr.
- Vorster, John - Wall Rian.
- W
- Wajed, Hasina - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- Warsaw Pact - Stacy Robert.
- Watergate scandal - Eversole Theodore W.
- Wen Jiabao - Boslaugh Sarah.
- West Papua - Mishra Patit Paban.
- Western Saharan War - Terry Janice J.
- World Bank - Schroeder Michael J.
- World Trade Center attacks, 2001 - Mishra Patit Paban.
- X
- Xi Jinping - Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur.
- Y
- Yahya Khan, Agha Mohammed - Prono Luca.
- Yeltsin, Boris - Martone Eric.
- Yemen - Kayyali Randa.
- Yom Kippur War - Kreutz Andrej.
- Yoshida Shigeru - Wahlert Matthew H.
- Z
- Zapatistas - Schroeder Michael J.
- Zhou Enlai - Upshur Jiu-Hwa Lo.
- Zia, Khaleda - Alam Mohammed Badrul.
- Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammad - Prono Luca.
- Support Materials