The Great History Archive is intended as a learning tool for anyone who is interested in studying the history of Western Civilization in general. This is a work in progress and will be continually updated with more posts from my various writing platforms. Please feel free to use the material as is necessary.
Why history? Well history is more than just an analysis of our past. It is the study of human nature responding to different but recurring problems. From history we learn about the limitations of our species, its shortfalls as well as its successes and triumphs. I have often viewed history as the matrix through which all knowledge flows. In short it is the collective librarian keeping track of our progress providing us with possible solutions for both the present and the future.
Ancient World
Birth of Civilization Very Early Art Agricultural Revolution Mespotamia Asia Minor Development of Writing Epic of Gilgamesh
The Akkadian Empire Code of Hammurabi Origin of Egypt Old Kingdom Middle Kingdom Hyksos New Kingdom Egyptian Deities Egyptian Decline
Babylon Assyria Phoenicians Are Israel and Judea the same? Lost Israelite tribes Early Europe
The Greeks
Minoans Mycenaens Doric Greek City States Athenian Democracy Mathematics Science Art and Architecture
Philosophy Athenian Trio Drama and Sports Wars of Ancient Greece Alexander the Great Hellenic Era
The Glory that was Rome
Origins Roman Republic Expansion of the Republic Punic Wars Reformation of the Republic The First Triumvirate
Julius Caesar Second Triumvirate/Rise of Augustus Early Emperors The Good Emperors Severan and Military Emperors
Constantine the Great/Edict of Milan Rise of Christianity Great Migrations Visigoths Huns Battle of Milvian Bridge The Decline of Rome in the West
Roman contributions to Civilization Eastern Roman Empire and the Byzantines. Justinian and Basil II
Middle Ages
The Franks The Merovingians Spread of Christianity Charlemagne Arab Conquests and the Expansion of Islam Battle of Tours Silk Road Feudalism
Scholasticism Otto the Great Anglo-Saxon Monarchs Vikings Normans Gothic Architecture Investiture Controversy Monastic Orders The Crusades Magna Carta Battle of Lewes
English Peasant Revolt Seljuk Turks Black Death Hundred Years War Early Universities English/Scottish rivalry Medieval Weapons Fall of Constantinople
Early Modern Europe
The Dutch Republic The Thirty Years War Age of Reason English Civil War Anglo-Dutch Wars Origins of the Word Tory
Richelieu and the Growth of France Cardinal Mazarin Louis XIV Decline of Spain as a Power 17th and 18th Century Inventions
Philosophers of the 17th Century 17th and 18th Century Physics and Astronomy 17th and 18th Century Biology and Chemistry Louis XIV and his Wars The War of the Spanish Succession Seven Years War The Enlightenment Marie Theresa
War of the Austrian Successon Jacobite Rebellion 17th and 18th century Art House of Hanover in the United Kingdom Catherine the Great
The Renaissance and the Reformation
Italian City States Early Church Reformers Jan Hus Ottoman Empire What was the Renaissance? Age of Exploration Eastward turn Renaissance Humanism
Great Renaissance Artists Italian Wars Renaissance Literature Spain as a Power The Reformation Counter Reformation Religious Wars of the 16th Century Slavery in the West
Charles V Henry VIII and the English Reformation War of the Three Henrys Queen Elizabeth I The Advance of Sulamein the Magnificent Galileo Heliocentric Revolution Holy Roman Empire
Birth of the United States
Manifest Destiny Presidential Facts US Civil War Facts Battles won by the South Costliest Battles of the Civil War What if the South had won the War?
The First World War and its leadup
The Napoleonic Era
Napoleon’s Early Days Egyptian Campaign Wars of the Second and Third Coalition Wars of the Fourth and Fifth Coalition
Peninsular War Russian Campaign Events leading up to the Battle of Waterloo The Long Run Significance of Napoloeon
Congress of Vienna The Politics of the First Empire Napoleon’s Accomplishments The British Enpire by 1815 (Napoleon’s Nemesis)
Pax Europa (1815-1914)
The Concert of Europe Latin American Wars of Independence Social Change in Britain Parliamentary Reform in Britain
The 1830 Revolutions Revolution in France and Germany (1848) More Revolutions in 1848 Europe The First Industrial Revolution
The Crimean War The Railway Revolution Life Sciences in the 19th Century Chemistry in the 19th Century British in India G.W.F. Hegel
The British Empire in the 19th Century The Opium Wars Bismarck and German Unification The French Colonial Empire On the Anglo Boer War