What is History?

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• ☰ What is History?
  • ☰ History & Research
    • ☰ The Many Meanings of History
    • ☰ Science & Writing of History
    • ☰ How History Develops
  • ☰ Thinking & Working Historically
  • ☰ Methods & Working Techniques
  • ☰ Timekeeping and Historical Dating
• ☰ Early History
  • ☰ The Old Stone Age
  • ☰ The New Stone Age
  • ☰ The Bronze Age
  • ☰ The Iron Age
• ☰ High Civilisations
  • ☰ Mesopotamia
    • ☰ Geographical Conditions
    • ☰ The Sumerian City-States
    • ☰ Great Empires of the Semitic Peoples
    • ☰ Metropolis Babylon
  • ☰ Egypt
    • ☰ Development Conditions
    • ☰ Economy & Society
    • ☰ Rule of the Pharao
    • ☰ Religion of the Egyptians
  • ☰ Ancient Israel
    • ☰ Immigration and Formation of the Tribal Confederation
    • ☰ The State of Israel Arises
  • ☰ The High Civilisations of Asia
    • ☰ Advanced Civilizations in China
      • ☰ Overview of Chinese Dynasties
      • ☰ The Teachings of Confucius
      • ☰ Daoism in China
    • ☰ The Indus/Harappa Civilization
      • ☰ Harappa
      • ☰ Mohenjo-Daro
      • ☰ Buddhism
• ☰ Classical Antiquity
  • ☰ Ancient Greece
    • ☰ Geography of Greece
    • ☰ Man and Myth
    • ☰ Early Period
      • ☰ The Early Cultures of the Aegean
      • ☰ The Mycenaean Culture
      • ☰ The Collapse of the Bronze Age
    • ☰ The Dark Ages
      • ☰ Beginning of the Dark Period
      • ☰ The Emergence of the Polis
      • ☰ Greek Colonization
    • ☰ The Archaic Period
      • ☰ Social and Political Developments
      • ☰ The Early Greek Philosophers (Presocratics)
      • ☰ Art and Architecture of the Archaic Period
      • ☰ Olympian Gods
      • ☰ Iliad & Odyssey
      • ☰ Trojan War
      • ☰ Minotaur & King Minos
    • ☰ The Classic Period
      • ☰ The Persian Wars
      • ☰ Scientific Achievements
      • ☰ The Golden Age of Athens
      • ☰ Greek Tragedy & Comedy
      • ☰ The Philosophy of Classical Greece
      • ☰ The Peloponnesian War
      • ☰ Sparta & the Peloponnesian System
    • ☰ Age of Alexander the Great
      • ☰ The Rise of Macedonia & Philip II
      • ☰ Alexander the Great & the Persian Campaign
    • ☰ The Hellenistic Period
      • ☰ The Diadochi Kingdoms
      • ☰ Hellenistic Culture, Science, and Society
  • ☰ The Roman Empire
    • ☰ The Foundation and Early Days
    • ☰ The Roman Republic
    • ☰ The Roman Emperors
      • ☰ The Julio-Claudian Emperors
      • ☰ The Flavian Dynasty
      • ☰ The Five Good Emporers
    • ☰ The Decline of the Roman Empire
      • ☰ The Crisis of the Third Century
      • ☰ Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
      • ☰ The Rise of Constantine and the Constantinian Dynasty
      • ☰ The Division of the Empire
      • ☰ The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
• ☰ The Middle Ages
  • ☰ The Transition from the Antiquity to the Middle Ages
    • ☰ Migration Period
    • ☰ The Germanic Tribes and Kingdoms
    • ☰ The Periodization of the Middle Ages in Europe
  • ☰ The Byzantine Empire
    • ☰ The Emergence of the Byzantine Empire
    • ☰ The Golden Age of the Byzantine Empire
    • ☰ The Decline of the Byzantine Empire
  • ☰ The Arabian Empire
    • ☰ Prophet Mohammed and the Foundaion of Islam
    • ☰ The Foundation of the Early Islamic State
    • ☰ The Umayyad Caliphate and the Expansion of the Islamic Empire
    • ☰ The Abbasids and the Golden Age of Islam
    • ☰ The Achievements of Muslim Civilization
  • ☰ Kingdom of the Franks
    • ☰ The Merovingian Kingdom
      • ☰ The Emergence of the Feudal System
      • ☰ The Lex Salica
      • ☰ The Christianization of the Germanic Tribes
    • ☰ The Carolingian Realm
      • ☰ The Rise of the Carolingian Dynasty
      • ☰ The Carolingian Kingdom under Pepin III
      • ☰ The Coronation of Charlemagne and the Renovatio Romanorum Imper
      • ☰ The Carolingian Renaissance
      • ☰ The Administration of the Carolingian Empire