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History (684 articles)

Basics (3 articles)

1. Human history (Level 1)
2. History (Level 2)
3. Civilization (Level 2)

History by continent and region (18 articles)

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

History by country (41 articles)

Africa (6 articles)

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

Americas (6 articles)

1. History of Brazil
2. History of Canada
3. History of Mexico
4. History of Peru
5. History of the United States
6. History of Colombia

Oceania (1 article)

1. History of Australia

Asia (13 articles)

1. History of Afghanistan
2. History of the People's Republic of China
3. History of Republic of India (1947–present)
4. History of Indonesia
5. History of Iran
6. History of Iraq
7. History of Israel
8. History of Japan
9. History of Pakistan
10. History of the Philippines
11. History of Thailand
12. History of Turkey
13. History of Vietnam

Europe (15 articles)

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

Prehistory (15 articles)

1. Prehistory (Level 2)
2. Early human migrations (Level 3)
3. Stone Age (Level 3)
   1. Paleolithic
      1. Lower Paleolithic
      2. Middle Paleolithic
         1. Control of fire by early humans
      3. Upper Paleolithic
         1. Behavioral modernity
   2. Mesolithic
   3. Neolithic
      1. Neolithic Revolution (Level 3)
      2. Cradle of civilization
      3. Prehistoric Egypt
      4. Proto-Indo-Europeans

Ancient history (127 articles)

General (8 articles)

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

Africa (15 articles)

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

Americas (11 articles)

1. Ancestral Puebloans
2. Andean civilizations (Level 3)
   1. Chavín culture
   2. Caral-Supe civilization
3. Mesoamerica (Level 3)
   1. Maya civilization (Level 3)
   2. Olmecs
   3. Zapotec civilization
4. Paleo-Indians
   1. Clovis culture
5. Settlement of the Americas

Asia (61 articles)

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus (12 articles)

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

East Asia (16 articles)

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

Southeast Asia (3 articles)

1. Hồng Bàng dynasty
2. Nanyue
3. Pyu city-states

South Asia (10 articles)

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

West Asia (20 articles)

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

Europe (32 articles)

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

Post-classical history (133 articles)

General (9 articles)

1. Post-classical history (Level 2)
2. Early Muslim conquests
3. Feudalism
   1. Serfdom
4. Guild
5. Nobility
   1. Boyar
   2. Knight
      1. Chivalry

Africa (7 articles)

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

Americas (7 articles)

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

Asia (42 articles)

West Asia (9 articles)

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

Central Asia and Iran (8 articles)

1. Aq Qoyunlu
2. Göktürks
3. Golden Horde
4. Seljuk Empire
5. Qara Qoyunlu
6. Muslim conquest of Persia
7. Khwarazmian Empire
8. Uyghur Khaganate

Southeast Asia (7 articles)

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

South Asia (3 articles)

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

East Asia (15 articles)

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

Europe (68 articles)

General (4 articles)

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

Eastern Europe and Central (24 articles)

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

Western Europe (40 articles)

1. Franks
2. Hanseatic League
3. Holy Roman Empire (Level 3)
4. Inquisition
5. Investiture Controversy
6. Kingdom of Germany
7. Knights Templar
8. Normans
9. Northern Crusades
10. Ostsiedlung
11. House of Plantagenet
12. Viking Age (Level 3)
    1. Vikings
13. Wends

England (5 articles)

1. Kingdom of England
2. Anglo-Saxons
3. Norman Conquest
   1. Battle of Hastings
4. Wars of the Roses

France (7 articles)

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

Spain (6 articles)

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

Italy (8 articles)

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

Early modern history (93 articles)

General (7 articles)

1. Age of Discovery (Level 3)
   1. Magellan expedition
2. Little Ice Age
3. Early modern period (Level 2)
4. Renaissance (Level 3)
5. Scientific Revolution (Level 3)
6. Seven Years' War

Colonial empires (6 articles)

1. British Empire (Level 3)
2. Spanish Empire (Level 3)
3. French colonial empire
4. Portuguese Empire
5. Columbian exchange
6. Treaty of Tordesillas

Africa (8 articles)

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

Americas (11 articles)

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

Asia (25 articles)

Basics (3 articles)

1. Western imperialism in Asia (Level 3)
2. Dutch East India Company
3. East India Company

Central and West Asia (5 articles)

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

East Asia (8 articles)

1. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
2. Edo period
   1. Tokugawa shogunate
3. Japanese invasions of Korea
4. Joseon
5. Ming dynasty
6. Qing dynasty
7. Sino-Burmese War

Southeast Asia (4 articles)

1. Ayutthaya Kingdom
2. Lan Xang
3. Lê dynasty
4. Toungoo dynasty

South Asia (5 articles)

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

Europe (36 articles)

Basics (5 articles)

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

Eastern Europe and Central (16 articles)

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

Western Europe (15 articles)

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

Late modern history (171 articles)

General (41 articles)

1. Late modern period (Level 2)
2. Contemporary history (Level 3)
3. 1973 oil crisis
4. COVID-19 pandemic
5. Abolitionism
6. Civil rights movements
7. Cold War (Level 3)
   1. Nuclear arms race
8. Collective farming
9. Decolonization (Level 3)
10. 2007–2008 financial crisis
11. Great Depression (Level 3)
12. Green Revolution (Level 3)
13. Industrial Revolution (Level 3)
14. Information Age (Level 3)
15. New Imperialism
16. Post–World War II economic expansion
17. Sexual revolution
18. Space Race
    1. Moon landing
19. Spanish flu
20. War on terror

World War I (8 articles)

1. World War I (Level 3)
   1. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
   2. Balfour Declaration
   3. Balkans Campaign
   4. Eastern Front
   5. Italian Front
   6. Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
   7. Western Front

World War II (11 articles)

1. World War II (Level 3)
   1. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
   2. Attack on Pearl Harbor
   3. Battle of the Atlantic
   4. Battle of Britain
   5. Eastern Front
   6. The Holocaust
   7. Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
   8. Pacific War
   9. Western Front
   10. Yalta Conference

Americas (22 articles)

North America (18 articles)

1. American Civil War
2. American Indian Wars
3. American frontier
4. Civil rights movement
5. Confederate States of America
6. Cuban Missile Crisis
7. Cuban Revolution
8. Dust Bowl
9. Manhattan Project
10. Mexican War of Independence
11. Mexican Revolution
12. Mexican–American War
13. Monroe Doctrine
14. New Deal
15. September 11 attacks
16. Spanish–American War
17. Wall Street Crash of 1929
18. War of 1812

South America (4 articles)

1. Empire of Brazil
2. Gran Colombia
3. War of the Pacific
4. Paraguayan War

Asia (46 articles)

Central Asia and Iran (5 articles)

1. Afghan conflict
2. Great Game
3. Iran–Iraq War
4. Iranian Revolution
5. Persian Constitutional Revolution

East Asia (17 articles)

1. 1931 China floods
2. Boxer Rebellion
3. Chinese Civil War
4. Cultural Revolution
5. Empire of Japan
6. First Opium War
7. First Sino-Japanese War
8. Great Leap Forward
9. Korean War
10. Meiji Restoration
11. Russo-Japanese War
12. Second Opium War
13. 1911 Revolution
14. Second Sino-Japanese War
    1. Nanjing Massacre
15. Taiping Rebellion
16. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

Southeast Asia (11 articles)

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

South Asia (7 articles)

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

West Asia (6 articles)

1. Arab–Israeli conflict
2. Armenian genocide
3. Gulf War
4. Iraq War
5. Israeli–Palestinian conflict
6. Turkish War of Independence

Europe (49 articles)

Basics (7 articles)

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

Eastern Europe (25 articles)

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

Western Europe (17 articles)

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

Africa (13 articles)

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

Historical cities (31 articles)

Africa (6 articles)

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

Americas (5 articles)

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

Asia (16 articles)

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

Europe (4 articles)

1. Constantinople
2. Knossos
3. Pompeii
4. Split

History by subject matter (39 articles)

1. History of art (Level 3)
   1. History of architecture (Level 3)
   2. History of film (Level 3)
2. History of science (Level 2)
   1. History of astronomy
   2. History of biology
   3. History of chemistry
   4. History of geography
   5. History of geology
   6. History of physics
   7. History of political thought
   8. History of psychology
   9. History of sociology
3. History of technology (Level 3)
   1. History of computing hardware
   2. History of transport
      1. History of aviation
      2. Maritime history
4. History of agriculture (Level 3)
5. History of literature (Level 3)
6. History of mathematics (Level 3)
7. History of medicine (Level 3)
8. History of music (Level 3)
9. History of communication
   1. History of linguistics
   2. History of writing
10. History of economic thought
11. History of human sexuality
12. History of religion
    1. History of Hinduism
    2. History of Buddhism
    3. Jewish history
    4. History of Christianity
    5. History of Islam
    6. History of atheism
13. History of games
14. History of sport
15. Legal history
16. Military history (Level 3)

Auxiliary historical sciences (13 articles)

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