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Page 1: Jostling for Control
Civilization breeds conflict
Earliest humans, 300,000 BC map
Early human migration, 60,000 BC map
Late Stone Age, 15,000 BC map
Early agriculture, 5000 BC map
Early civilizations, 3000 BC map
Page 2: This Changes Everything
Bronze Age conflict, 2,500 BC map
Copper and tin sites, 2000 BC map
Bronze-Age collapse, 1000 BC map
Early fortifications, 1000 BC map
Mediterranean trade, 1500 BC map
Bronze-Age wars, 1500 BC map
Page 3: Quest for Empire
Persian Empire, 500s BC map
Classical Greece, 400 BC map
Punic Wars, Rome vs Carthage, 200 BC map
Roman Empire, 200 AD map
Roman wars, 300 AD map
Barbarians weaken Rome, 400 map
Page 4: Rome Flees the Barbarians
Romans in Constantinople, 600 AD map
Islam appears, and expands, 600s map
Turks join Muslims, 900 map
Nordic traders, 900s map
Byzantines under pressure, 110 map
Dark Ages conflict, 400-900 map
Page 5: Out with the Infidels!
Christian Crusades, 1100 map
Mongols and Black Death, 1300 map
Hundred Years' War, 1350-1450 map
Walls and Castles, 1400 map
Turks sack Constantinople, 1400s map
Manors and serfs, 1400
| Page 6: Bronze Age Weapons
Gunpower changes warfare, 1500
Bonze-age weapons
Medieval armor
Catapults and siege engines
Cannons and firearms
Battles before gunpowder, pre-1500 map
Page 7: Protecting Wealth
Trojan War, 1100 BC
Siege warfare
Cities with most sieges, map
Siege diagram, Rome
Walled cities everywhere
Failed siege of Vienna, 1493
Page 8: Expanding Empires
European trade reviving, 1400s map
Major fortified cities, 1400 map
Spain and Ottoman Turks, 1500s map
Spanish expansion, 1500s
Turks at the gates, 1400s
Field artillery changes warfare, 1500
Page 9: Galleys Still Rule
War galleys, 1500s
Warships and rigging, 1500
Spice Islands and China, 1500 map
Sailing around Africa, 1500s map
Portuguese sailing east, 1500s map
Warships and firepower, 1600
Page 10: Going the Opposite Way
Columbus sails west, 1500s map
Spanish conquest, 1500s map
Spanish treasure fleets, 1500s map
Portuguese slave trade, 1600s map
English exploration, 1500s map
French exploration, 1500s map
| Page 11: Catholics and Protestants
Catholics fight Protestants, 1500s map
Martin Luther, printing, Reformation, 1500s
Popes with business ties, 1500s
Inquisitions, heresy, witchcraft, 1500s
Spanish Armada fails, 1588
Thirty Years' War, bloodbath, 1600s
Page 12: The World gets Bigger
Empires and expansion, 1600s map
East India trading companies, 1600s map
Naval power is key, 1600s
Seven Years' War, Europe, 1700s map
Britain emerges on top, 1700s
American Revolutionary War, 1775-1781 map
Page 13: French Empire
French Revolution, Napoleon, 1800s map
Napoleon's Russia disaster, 1800s
Height of British Empire, 1900 map
Prelude to WWI, 1865-1900 map
WWI, first industrial war, 1914-1918 map
Motorized warfare, 1900s
Page 14: End of an Era
Russian Revolution, 1918-1922 map
Lenin's Red Terror, 1920s
Communism spreads worldwide, 1930s
Stalin's forced industrialization, 1930 map
Rise of Hitler's fascism, 1930s
WW2, Worldwide destruction, 1939-1945 map
Page 15: *240 Industrial Warfare Intensifies
Warfare turns apocalyptic, 1940s
Fully-motorized war, WW2, 1940s
Armor leads the attack, 1940s
Aircraft fill the sky, 1940s
Aircraft dominate the Pacific War, 1940s
WW2, rockets, futuristic weapons, 1940s
| Page 16: Cold War Heats Up
Cold War divides Europe, 1950s map
China goes communist, 1950 map
Domino theory containment, 1950s
Vietnam and Suez crisis, 1960s
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1960s map
Sudden collapse of USSR, 1990 Page 17: Observations
Continuing nuclear standoff, 2020s
America's original inward focus, 1800s map
American humiliation in Vietnam, 1965-1975
America pulls back, 1980s
Muslim terrorism, 9/11 attack, 2000s map
Post-WW2 battlegrounds, 1950-2020 map |
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