World History Textbook

The word history comes ultimately from Ancient Greek historía, meaning "inquiry," "knowledge from inquiry," or "judge." However, the question of what kind of inquiries historians pose, what knowledge they seek, and how they interpret the evidence that they find remains controversial. Historians draw conclusions from past approaches to history, but in the end, they always write in the context of their own time, current dominant ideas of how to interpret the past, and even subjective viewpoints. Furthermore, current events and developments often trigger which past events, historical periods, or geographical regions are seen as critical and thus should be investigated. Finally, historical studies are designed to provide specific lessons for societies today. In the words of Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and historian, "All history is contemporary history." All events that are remembered and preserved in some original form constitute the historical record. The task of historians is to identify the sources that can most usefully contribute to the production of accurate accounts of the past. These sources, known are primary sources or evidence, were produced at the time under study and constitute the foundation of historical inquiry. Ideally, a historian will use as many available primary sources as can be accessed, but in practice, sources may have been destroyed or may not be available for research. In some cases, the only eyewitness reports of an event may be memoirs, autobiographies, or oral interviews taken years later. Table Of Content : 1 The Study of History and the Rise of Civilization 2 Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations 3 Early Civilizations 4 Ancient Egypt 5 Early Chinese Dynasties 6 Early Civilizations in the Indian Subcontinent 7 Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World 8 The Roman World 9 The Byzantine Empire 10 The Rise and Spread of Islam 11 The Middle Ages in Europe 12 The Development of Russia 13 The Mongol Empire 14 Chinese Dynasties 15 African Civilizations 16 Civilizations in the Americas 17 The Renaissance 18 The Rise of Nation-States 19 The Age of Enlightenment 20 The Protestant Reformation 21 Enlightened Despots 22 The French Revolution 23 Napoleon 24 Post-Napoleonic Europe 25 The Industrial Revolution 26 Change in the Americas 27 European Imperialism in East Asia 28 The Scramble for Africa 29 World War I 30 The Interwar Period 31 World War II 32 The Cold War 33 Post-Colonial Africa 34 The Middle East after the Ottoman Empire 35 East Asia after World War II 36 South America and Latin America in the Cold War 37 The Long Decade (1989-2001) 38 The 21st Century The eBooks app features allows the user to : Custom Fonts Custom Text Size Themes / Day mode / Night mode Text Highlighting List / Edit / Delete Highlights Handle Internal and External Links Portrait / Landscape Reading Time Left / Pages left In-App Dictionary Media Overlays (Sync text rendering with audio playback) TTS - Text to Speech Support Book Search Add Notes to a Highlight Last Read Position Listener Horizontal reading Distraction Free Reading Credits : Boundless (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)) FolioReader, Heberti Almeida (CodeToArt Technology) Cover by Designed by new7ducks / Freepik Pustaka Dewi, www.pustakadewi.com