ABSTRACT
Designed to meet the curriculum needs for students from grades 7 to 12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores world history from approximately 5000 C.E. to the present. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the modern world.Each volume includes articles on history, government, and warfare; the development of ideas and the growth of art and architecture; religion and philosophy; music; science and technology; and daily life in the civilizations covered. Boxed features include "Turning Point," "Great Lives," "Into the Twenty-First Century," and "Modern Weapons". Maps, timelines, and illustrations illuminate the text, and a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index in each volume round out the set.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |144 pages
Volume1
letter A|20 pages
A
entry A_1|4 pages
African Union
entry A_2|5 pages
Agriculture
entry A_3|1 pages
Aids
entry A_4|2 pages
Algeria
entry A_5|1 pages
Angola
entry A_6|6 pages
Apartheid
entry A_7|5 pages
Art and Architecture
entry A_8|2 pages
Aswan High Dam
letter B|6 pages
B
entry B_1|2 pages
Boer War
entry B_2|5 pages
British Colonies in Africa
letter C|17 pages
C
entry C_1|4 pages
Civil Wars
entry C_2|5 pages
Colonization
entry C_3|3 pages
Communist Movements
entry C_4|4 pages
Congo
entry C_5|5 pages
Culture and Traditions
letter D_E|23 pages
D-E
entry D_E_1|1 pages
Darfur
entry D_E_2|5 pages
Democratic Movements
entry D_E_3|2 pages
Drought
entry D_E_4|6 pages
Economic Development and Trade
entry D_E_5|5 pages
Egypt
entry D_E_6|4 pages
Environmental Issues
entry D_E_7|2 pages
Eritrea
entry D_E_8|4 pages
Ethiopia
letter F_I|17 pages
F-I
entry F_I_1|1 pages
Family Structure
entry F_I_2|2 pages
Famine
entry F_I_3|4 pages
French West Africa
entry F_I_4|3 pages
German Colonies
entry F_I_5|1 pages
Global Warming
entry F_I_6|3 pages
Imperialism
entry F_I_7|6 pages
Independence Movements
entry F_I_8|4 pages
Italian Colonies
letter L_N|17 pages
L-N
entry L_N_1|5 pages
Language
entry L_N_2|3 pages
Liberia
entry L_N_3|6 pages
Literature and Writing
entry L_N_4|2 pages
Migration
entry L_N_5|1 pages
Mozambique
entry L_N_6|4 pages
Nigeria
letter P_R|12 pages
P-R
entry P_R_1|2 pages
Pan-African Movement
entry P_R_2|2 pages
Portuguese Colonies
entry P_R_3|2 pages
Refugees
entry P_R_4|7 pages
Religion
entry P_R_5|3 pages
Rwanda
letter S|20 pages
S
entry S_1|3 pages
Slavery and the Slave Trade
entry S_2|6 pages
Society
entry S_3|2 pages
Somalia
entry S_4|7 pages
South Africa
entry S_5|4 pages
Sudan
entry S_6|2 pages
Suez Canal
letter T_U|12 pages
T-U
entry T_U_1|5 pages
Technology and Inventions
entry T_U_2|4 pages
Tools and Weapons
entry T_U_3|3 pages
Tutsis and Hutus
entry T_U_4|3 pages
Uganda
part |149 pages
Volume2
letter A_C|43 pages
A-C
entry A_C_1|1 pages
Absolutism
entry A_C_2|1 pages
Age of Discovery
entry entry3_A_C|1 pages
Age of Reason
entry entry4_A_C|5 pages
Agriculture
entry A_C_5|1 pages
Agricultural Revolution
entry A_C_6|3 pages
Andalusia (Muslim Spain)
entry A_C_7|8 pages
Art and Architecture
entry entry8_A_C|4 pages
Austria-Hungary
entry A_C_9|2 pages
Balance of Power
entry A_C_10|1 pages
Bolshevik Revolution
entry A_C_11|1 pages
Byzantine Empire
entry A_C_12|3 pages
Charlemagne (ca. 748–814)
entry A_C_13|1 pages
Chivalry
entry A_C_14|4 pages
Christianity
entry A_C_15|3 pages
Cities and Urbanization
entry A_C_16|3 pages
Cold War
entry A_C_17|6 pages
Communism
entry A_C_18|3 pages
Crusades
entry A_C_19|6 pages
Culture and Traditions
letter D_L|54 pages
D-L
entry D_L_1|4 pages
Democracy and Democratic Movements
entry D_L_2|7 pages
Economic Development and Trade
entry D_L_3|1 pages
England
entry D_L_4|2 pages
Enlightenment
entry D_L_5|4 pages
Environmental Issues
entry D_L_6|4 pages
Exploration
entry D_L_7|3 pages
Fascism/Nazism
entry D_L_8|2 pages
Feudalism
entry D_L_9|2 pages
France
entry D_L_10|2 pages
Franks
entry D_L_11|3 pages
French Revolution (1789–1799)
entry D_L_12|4 pages
Germany
entry D_L_13|2 pages
Glasnost
entry D_L_14|3 pages
Great Britain
entry D_L_15|4 pages
Holocaust
entry D_L_16|1 pages
Hitler, Adolf
entry D_L_17|3 pages
Holy Roman Empire
entry D_L_18|1 pages
Humanism
entry D_L_19|1 pages
Industrial Revolution
entry D_L_20|5 pages
Industrialization
entry D_L_21|3 pages
Italy
entry D_L_22|4 pages
Jews and Judaism
entry D_L_23|4 pages
Language
entry D_L_24|7 pages
Literature and Writing
letter M_Z|52 pages
M–Z
entry M_Z_1|1 pages
Marxism
entry M_Z_2|2 pages
Mercantilism
entry M_Z_3|1 pages
Napoleon Bonaparte
entry M_Z_4|3 pages
Nationalism
entry M_Z_5|1 pages
Nazism
entry M_Z_6|1 pages
Ottoman Empire
entry M_Z_7|4 pages
Papal States and Papal Power
entry M_Z_8|2 pages
Pogroms
entry M_Z_9|3 pages
Reformation
entry M_Z_10|5 pages
Religion
entry M_Z_11|4 pages
Renaissance
entry M_Z_12|4 pages
Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union
entry M_Z_13|2 pages
Slavery and the Slave Trade
entry M_Z_14|2 pages
Social Welfare State
entry M_Z_15|1 pages
Scientific Revolution
entry M_Z_16|1 pages
Socialism
entry M_Z_17|6 pages
Society
entry M_Z_18|2 pages
Spain
entry M_Z_19|6 pages
Technology and Invention
entry M_Z_20|3 pages
Tools and Weapons
entry M_Z_21|2 pages
Ukraine
entry M_Z_22|1 pages
Ussr
entry M_Z_23|2 pages
Velvet Revolution
entry M_Z_24|1 pages
Vikings
entry M_Z_25|5 pages
World War I (1914–1918)
entry M_Z_26|7 pages
World War II (1939–1945)
part |146 pages
Volume3
letter A_C2|43 pages
A–C
entry A_C_1|7 pages
Agriculture
entry A_C_2|4 pages
American Revolution
entry A_C_3|3 pages
Argentina
entry A_C_4|8 pages
Art and Architecture
entry A_C_5|1 pages
Bolívar, Simón
entry A_C_6|3 pages
Brazil
entry A_C_7|4 pages
Canada
entry A_C_8|1 pages
Castro, Fidel
entry A_C_9|4 pages
Civil Rights Movement
entry A_C_10|6 pages
Colonization
entry A_C_11|2 pages
Communist Movements
entry A_C_12|4 pages
Cuba
entry A_C_13|2 pages
Cuban Missile Crisis
entry A_C_14|7 pages
Culture and Traditions
letter D_G|27 pages
D–G
entry D_G_1|3 pages
Democracy
entry D_G_2|2 pages
Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA)
entry D_G_3|7 pages
Economic Development and Trade
entry D_G_4|4 pages
Environmental Issues
entry D_G_5|5 pages
Exploration
entry D_G_6|2 pages
Falkland Islands
entry D_G_7|2 pages
First Nations
entry D_G_8|5 pages
French and Indian War
entry D_G_9|1 pages
Global Warming
entry D_G_10|4 pages
Government
letter H_N|37 pages
H–N
entry H_N_1|2 pages
Haiti
entry H_N_2|1 pages
Illegal Aliens
entry H_N_3|4 pages
Immigrants and Immigration
entry H_N_4|2 pages
Inuit
entry H_N_5|1 pages
Juárez, Benito
entry H_N_6|1 pages
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
entry H_N_7|5 pages
Language
entry H_N_8|5 pages
Latin American Revolutions
entry H_N_9|2 pages
Liberation Theology
entry H_N_10|8 pages
Literature and Writing
entry H_N_11|3 pages
Manifest Destiny
entry H_N_12|5 pages
Mexican Revolutions
entry H_N_13|1 pages
Mexico
entry H_N_14|3 pages
Missionaries
entry H_N_15|4 pages
Native Americans
entry H_N_16|2 pages
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
letter O_Z|39 pages
O–Z
entry O_Z_1|1 pages
O'Connor, Sandra Day
entry O_Z_2|2 pages
Organization of American States (OAS)
entry O_Z_3|3 pages
Panama Canal
entry O_Z_4|1 pages
Polk, James K.
entry O_Z_5|2 pages
Quebec Separatist Movement
entry O_Z_6|8 pages
Religion
entry O_Z_7|1 pages
Roosevelt, Theodore
entry O_Z_8|2 pages
Russian Settlements
entry O_Z_9|1 pages
Sequoyah
entry O_Z_10|4 pages
Slavery and Slave Trade
entry O_Z_11|4 pages
Social Reform Movements
entry O_Z_12|8 pages
Society
entry O_Z_13|1 pages
St. Lawrence Seaway
entry O_Z_14|1 pages
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
entry O_Z_15|7 pages
Technology and Inventions
entry O_Z_16|1 pages
Tenochtitlán
entry O_Z_17|4 pages
Tools and Weapons
entry O_Z_18|1 pages
Treaty of Paris of 1763
entry O_Z_19|1 pages
Tubman, Harriet
entry O_Z_20|3 pages
United States
part |149 pages
Volume4
letter A_C3|40 pages
A-C
entry A_C_1|3 pages
Abbasid Dynasty
entry A_C_2|6 pages
Agriculture
entry A_C_3|1 pages
Al-Qaeda
entry A_C_4|2 pages
Arab League
entry A_C_5|5 pages
Arab-Israeli Conflict
entry A_C_6|1 pages
Arafat, Yassir
entry A_C_7|2 pages
Armenian Genocide
entry A_C_8|6 pages
Art and Architecture
entry A_C_9|1 pages
Atatürk
entry A_C_10|1 pages
Baghdad
entry A_C_11|2 pages
Balfour Declaration
entry A_C_12|1 pages
Begin, Menachem
entry A_C_13|6 pages
Byzantine Empire
entry A_C_14|3 pages
Camp David Accords
entry entry15_A_C|6 pages
Crusades
entry entry16_A_C|5 pages
Culture and Traditions
letter E_M|51 pages
E–M
entry E_M_1|5 pages
Economic Development and Trade
entry E_M_2|4 pages
Environmental Issues
entry E_M_3|3 pages
Gaza
entry E_M_4|3 pages
Gulf States
entry E_M_5|1 pages
Hamas
entry E_M_6|1 pages
Hezbollah
entry E_M_7|3 pages
Intifada
entry E_M_8|3 pages
Iran
entry E_M_9|4 pages
Iranian Revolution
entry E_M_10|4 pages
Iraq War
entry E_M_11|6 pages
Islam
entry E_M_12|5 pages
Israel
entry E_M_13|6 pages
Istanbul (formerly Constantinople, Byzantium)
entry E_M_14|2 pages
Jerusalem
entry E_M_15|3 pages
Jordan
entry E_M_16|5 pages
Language
entry E_M_17|1 pages
Lebanon
entry E_M_18|6 pages
Literature and Writing
entry E_M_19|2 pages
McMahon-Hussein Agreement
entry E_M_20|2 pages
Mecca
entry E_M_21|2 pages
Medina
letter N_R|22 pages
N–R
entry N_R_1|5 pages
Nationalism and Independence Movements
entry N_R_2|4 pages
Oil
entry N_R_3|6 pages
Ottoman Empire and Turkey
entry N_R_4|5 pages
Palestinian Issue
entry N_R_5|1 pages
Pollution
entry N_R_6|2 pages
Refugees
entry N_R_7|5 pages
Religion
letter S_Z|36 pages
S-Z
entry S_Z_1|5 pages
Saudi Arabia
entry S_Z_2|2 pages
Slavery and Slave Trade
entry S_Z_3|6 pages
Society
entry S_Z_4|3 pages
Syria
entry S_Z_5|7 pages
Technology and Inventions
entry S_Z_6|3 pages
Terrorists, Stateless
entry S_Z_7|4 pages
Tools and Weapons
entry S_Z_8|1 pages
Turkey
entry S_Z_9|3 pages
West Bank
entry S_Z_10|5 pages
World War I (1914–1918)
entry S_Z_11|3 pages
World War II (1939–1945)
entry S_Z_12|1 pages
Yemen
entry S_Z_13|2 pages
Zionism
part |147 pages
Volume5
letter A_E|52 pages
A–E
entry A_E_1|2 pages
Aboriginal Peoples
entry A_E_2|3 pages
Afghanistan
entry A_E_3|6 pages
Agriculture
entry A_E_4|8 pages
Art and Architecture
entry A_E_5|4 pages
Australia
entry A_E_6|2 pages
Bangladesh
entry A_E_7|1 pages
Bhutan
entry A_E_8|2 pages
Brunei (Brunei Darussalam)
entry A_E_9|1 pages
Burma
entry A_E_10|2 pages
Cambodia
entry A_E_11|1 pages
Ceylon
entry A_E_12|5 pages
China
entry A_E_13|1 pages
Cold War
entry A_E_14|3 pages
Colonization
entry A_E_15|5 pages
Communism
entry A_E_16|1 pages
Confucianism
entry A_E_17|1 pages
Cultural Revolution
entry A_E_18|6 pages
Culture and Traditions
entry A_E_19|5 pages
Democracy and Democratic Movements
entry A_E_20|7 pages
Economic Development and Trade
entry A_E_21|4 pages
Environmental Issues
letter G_O|41 pages
G–O
entry G_O_1|1 pages
Great Leap Forward
entry G_O_2|1 pages
Hong Kong
entry G_O_3|3 pages
Imperialism
entry G_O_4|4 pages
India
entry G_O_5|2 pages
Indian Nationalism
entry G_O_6|3 pages
Indonesia
entry G_O_7|5 pages
Japan
entry G_O_8|3 pages
Korea
entry G_O_9|1 pages
Korean War
entry G_O_10|5 pages
Language
entry G_O_11|2 pages
Laos
entry G_O_12|6 pages
Literature and Writing
entry G_O_13|1 pages
Malaysia
entry G_O_14|2 pages
Manchuria
entry G_O_15|2 pages
Maori
entry G_O_16|1 pages
Micronesia
entry G_O_17|1 pages
Mongolia
entry G_O_18|2 pages
Myanmar (Burma)
entry G_O_19|5 pages
Nationalism and Nationalist Movements
entry G_O_20|1 pages
Nepal
entry G_O_21|3 pages
New Zealand
entry G_O_22|1 pages
Opium Wars
letter P_T|40 pages
P–T
entry P_T_1|2 pages
Pakistan
entry P_T_2|3 pages
Philippines
entry P_T_3|2 pages
Polynesia
entry P_T_4|2 pages
Refugees
entry P_T_5|8 pages
Religion
entry P_T_6|2 pages
Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
entry P_T_7|1 pages
Siam
entry P_T_8|4 pages
Singapore
entry P_T_9|1 pages
Sino-Japanese War
entry P_T_10|2 pages
Slavery, Slave Trade, and Piracy
entry P_T_11|6 pages
Society
entry P_T_12|3 pages
Spheres of Influence
entry P_T_13|3 pages
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
entry P_T_14|1 pages
Taiping Rebellion
entry P_T_15|2 pages
Taiwan
entry P_T_16|2 pages
Taliban
entry P_T_17|6 pages
Technology and Inventions
entry P_T_18|3 pages
Thailand
entry P_T_19|3 pages
Tibet
letter V_W|14 pages
V–W
entry V_W_1|3 pages
Vietnam
entry V_W_2|1 pages
Vietnam War
entry V_W_3|4 pages
Weapons
entry V_W_4|4 pages
World War I
entry V_W_5|5 pages
World War II
