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  • This endeavour begun 29 November 2016.

Basics, 63

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General topics, 14

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  1. History
  2. Civilization
  3. History of the Earth
  4. History of the world
    1. Date read: 10 December 2016
    2. Article class: B
    3. Views/day (over past year): 1,500
    4. Article size: 150,000
    5. My contribs on reading: Only one small edit.
  5. Archive
  6. Biography
  7. Castle
  8. Estates of the realm
    1. Bourgeoisie
    2. Nobility
  9. Emperor
  10. Feudalism
  11. Graf
  12. Tithe

Auxiliary sciences of history, 15

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  1. Archaeology
    1. Archaeological culture
    2. Archaeogenetics
  2. Chronology
  3. Diplomatics
    1. Read on 1st December, 2016.
    2. Start-class.
    3. Daily average views: 43.
    4. No edits but one question asked on talk page about terminology and whether the article could help the layman with this.
  4. Epigraphy
  5. Genealogy
  6. Heraldry
    1. Coat of arms
      1. Date read: 9 January 2017
      2. Article class: Start
      3. Views/day (over past year): 1,500
      4. Watchers: 265
      5. Article size: 23,000
      6. My contribs on reading: None. Tired and just warming up.
  7. Historiography
    1. Conspiracy theory
  8. Numismatics
  9. Palaeography
  10. Philately
  11. Philosophy of history

History of science and technology, 18

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  1. History of science
  2. History of agriculture
  3. History of astronomy
  4. History of aviation
  5. History of biology
  6. History of chemistry
  7. History of geography
  8. History of geology
  9. History of physics
  10. History of mathematics
  11. History of economic thought
  12. History of linguistics
  13. History of psychology
  14. History of sociology
  15. History of technology
  16. History of medicine
  17. History of computing hardware
  18. History of writing

History of other topics, 16

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  1. Art history
  2. History of art
    1. Date read: 10 December 2016
    2. Article class: C - very lacking in references.
    3. Views/day (over past year): 550
    4. Article size: 50,000
    5. My contribs on reading: 7 small edits.
  3. Cultural history
  4. History of architecture
  5. History of film
  6. Legal history
    1. Date read: 11 December 2016
    2. Article class: Start
    3. Views/day (over past year): 180
    4. Article size: 21,600
    5. My contribs on reading: 8 small edits, including breaking up one wall of text into three paras.
  7. History of literature
    1. Date read: December 11 2016
    2. Article class: B - an assessment with which I strongly disagree and have told Wikiproject:Literature about.
    3. Views/day (over past year): 300
    4. Article size: 50,000
    5. My contribs on reading: 24 edits including some much more tricky stuff, eg sentence repairing. Left two separate comments on talk page.
  8. Military history
  9. History of music
  10. History of philosophy
  11. History of religions
    1. History of Buddhism
    2. Jewish history
    3. History of Christianity
    4. History of Hinduism
    5. History of Islam

History by continent, 8

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  1. History of Africa
  2. History of the Americas
    1. History of North America
    2. History of South America
  3. History of Antarctica
  4. History of Asia
  5. History of Europe
  6. History of Oceania

History by region, 5

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  1. History of Central America
  2. History of the Caribbean
  3. History of the Balkans
  4. History of the Middle East
  5. History of Scandinavia

History by country, 96

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Africa, 13

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  1. History of Egypt
  2. History of Eritrea
  3. History of Ethiopia
    1. Date read: 9 December 2016
    2. Article class: B (though lots of unreferenced stuff in it).
    3. Views/day (over past year): 600 a day (2016)
    4. Article size: 90k
    5. My contribs on reading: 36 edits, many wikifying. Some language fixes. Added ref tags to move inline refs. Two 'unreferenced section' banners.
  4. History of Ghana
  5. History of Libya
  6. History of Madagascar
  7. History of Morocco
  8. History of Nigeria
      1. Nok culture
        1. Read on 3 December 2016.
        2. Tiny article. Wikified a bit and fixed a typo.
        3. 231 views a day 2016.
  9. History of Senegal
    1. Read on 1st December 2016
    2. Start-class.
    3. I made 23 copy edits. Many single character changes but some breaking down and reworking of overlong sentences to aid clarity: turns out an editor for en.wp had machine-translated the French article and not tidied it in parts.
    4. 74 visitors a day (2016)
    5. French article is better than ours (it was a French colony, of course.)
  10. History of Sierra Leone
  11. History of Somalia
  12. History of South Africa
  13. History of Sudan

Americas, 15

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  1. History of Argentina
  2. History of Bolivia
  3. History of Brazil
  4. History of Canada
  5. History of Chile
  6. History of Colombia
  7. History of Cuba
  8. History of Ecuador
  9. History of Guyana
  10. History of Haiti
  11. History of Mexico
  12. History of Paraguay
  13. History of Peru
  14. History of the United States
  15. History of Venezuela

Asia, 31

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  1. History of Afghanistan
  2. History of Azerbaijan
  3. History of Bangladesh
  4. History of Bhutan
  5. History of Burma
  6. History of Cambodia
  7. History of China
  8. History of India
    1. Read on 30th November 2016.
    2. B-Class.
    3. Very few edits made.
      1. Vallabhbhai Patel
        1. Read on 30th November 2016.
        2. May have to read again as was distracted throughout.
      2. History of the Republic of India
  9. History of Indonesia
  10. History of Israel
  11. History of Iraq
  12. History of Iran
  13. History of Japan
  14. History of Korea
  15. History of Lebanon
  16. History of Malaysia
  17. History of Mongolia
  18. History of Nepal
  19. History of Pakistan
  20. History of Palestine
  21. History of the Philippines
  22. History of Saudi Arabia
  23. History of Singapore
  24. History of Sri Lanka
  25. History of Syria
  26. History of Taiwan
  27. History of Thailand
  28. History of Tibet
  29. History of Turkey
  30. History of Vietnam
  31. History of Yemen

Europe, 35

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  1. History of Albania
    1. Read on 29th November 2016.
    2. Start-class article.
    3. Fully read and copy-edited.
    4. Made about 25 minor edits.
    5. Lots of unreferenced sections.
    6. Arguments on talk page are largely about whether major people of the ancient world should be associated with Albania.
  2. History of Armenia
  3. History of Austria
  4. History of Belgium
  5. History of Bulgaria
  6. History of Croatia
  7. History of Denmark
  8. History of England
  9. History of Estonia
  10. History of Finland
  11. History of France
  12. History of Georgia
  13. History of Germany
  14. History of Greece
  15. History of Hungary
  16. History of Iceland
  17. History of the Republic of Ireland
  18. History of Italy
  19. History of Latvia
  20. History of Lithuania
  21. History of Malta
  22. History of the Netherlands
  23. History of Norway
  24. History of Poland
  25. History of Portugal
  26. History of Romania
  27. History of Russia
  28. History of Scotland
  29. History of Serbia
  30. History of Spain
  31. History of Sweden
  32. History of Switzerland
  33. History of Ukraine
  34. History of the United Kingdom
  35. History of Wales

Oceania, 2

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  1. History of Australia
    1. Read across 1st to 3rd December 2016
    2. B-class article
    3. 1,300 views a day on average in 2016
    4. 51 edits. I am, at time of writing, the 5th user by number of edits for the article though they were tiny ones.
    5. Asked two questions on talk page. One for advice on a sentence I couldn't fix, one on "what happened to the Dutch colonies?" so I should revisit that at some point.
      1. History of Australia since 1945
  2. History of New Zealand

Prehistory and Ancient history, 171

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Basic, 8

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  1. Stone Age
  2. Bronze Age
  3. Iron Age
  4. Chalcolithic
  5. Ancient history
  6. Classical antiquity
  7. Late Antiquity
  8. Hellenistic period

Prehistory, 20

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  1. Prehistory
  2. Australopithecus
    1. Read on 3 December 2016.
    2. C-class (but very few references)
    3. Views: 1k a day (2016)
    4. Size: 30,596
    5. My edits: Just one - insert space.
  3. Cro-Magnon
  4. Java Man
  5. Peking Man
  6. Homo erectus
  7. Human evolution
  8. Denisovan
  9. Neanderthal
  10. Paranthropus
  11. Early human migrations
Stone Age, 9
  1. Paleolithic
    1. Lower Paleolithic
    2. Middle Paleolithic
    3. Upper Paleolithic
  2. Mesolithic
  3. Neolithic Revolution
  4. Neolithic
  5. Cradle of civilization
  6. Control of fire by early humans
    1. Read on: 3 December 2016
    2. Class: C
    3. Views/day: 667 in 2016
    4. Size: 43,489
    5. My edits: 26 minor - lots of wikilinking, some inter-wiki to Wiktionary. Some repairs to poor sentences, possibly contributed by someone with English as second language. One "not in reference given". A couple of other inline templates, a 'clarify' template.

Africa, 19

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  1. Ancient Egypt
    1. Naqada III
    2. Pharaoh
    3. Ptolemaic Kingdom
    4. Thebes, Egypt
    5. Memphis, Egypt
    6. Old Kingdom of Egypt
    7. Middle Kingdom of Egypt
    8. New Kingdom of Egypt
    9. Valley of the Kings
  2. Nubia
    1. Kingdom of Kush
    2. Meroë
  3. Kingdom of Aksum
  4. Ancient Carthage
    1. Carthage
    2. Punic Wars
  5. Land of Punt

Americas, 10

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  1. Andean civilizations
    1. Chavín culture
    2. Norte Chico civilization
  2. Mesoamerica
  3. Maya civilization
  4. Paleo-Indians
  5. Teotihuacan
  6. Olmec
  7. Settlement of the Americas
  8. Zapotec civilization

Asia, 69

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  1. Silk Road
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 15
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  1. Achaemenid Empire
  2. Atropatene
  3. Bactria
  4. Caucasian Albania
  5. Caucasian Iberia
  6. Elam
    1. Susa
  7. Medes
  8. Parthian Empire
  9. Persepolis
  10. Roman–Persian Wars
  11. Saka
  12. Sassanid Empire
  13. Sogdiana
  14. Tocharians
Eastern Asia, 10
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  1. Gojoseon
  2. Jōmon period
  3. Shang Dynasty
  4. Spring and Autumn period
  5. Three Kingdoms of Korea
  6. Warring States period
  7. Zhou Dynasty
  8. Yayoi period
  9. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
  10. Xiongnu
Southern Asia, 11
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  1. Chola dynasty
  2. Gupta Empire
  3. Indus Valley Civilization
    1. Mohenjo-daro
  4. Indo-Greeks
  5. Indo-Scythians
  6. Kushan Empire
  7. Magadha
  8. Maurya Empire
  9. Satavahana dynasty
  10. Vedic period
Southeastern Asia, 3
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  1. Nanyue
  2. Pyu city-states
  3. Hong Bang dynasty
Western Asia, 29
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  1. Mesopotamia
  2. Akkad
  3. Amorite
  4. Kingdom of Armenia
  5. Assyria
    1. Date read: 11 December 2016
    2. Article class: C
    3. Views/day (over past year): 2,500
    4. Number of Watchlisters: 334
    5. Article size: 108,000
    6. My contribs on reading: 36 edits. Mostly small. Left a note on talk page. All my diffs combined.
      1. Nineveh
  6. Babylonia
    1. Babylon
    2. Chaldea
  7. Ebla
  8. History of ancient Israel and Judah
  9. Hittites
  10. Lydia
  11. Mitanni
  12. Palmyra
  13. Phoenicia
    1. Tyre, Lebanon
  14. Phrygia
  15. Seleucid Empire
  16. Sabaeans
  17. Sumer
    1. Ur
  18. Troy
    1. Trojan War
  19. Ugarit
  20. Urartu
  21. Fertile Crescent
  22. Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)
  23. Syrian Wars
    1. Read on 3 December 2016
    2. Start-class (and pretty short)
    3. No edits made.
    4. 1 person a day views it! (Surprised it doesn't get more by virtue of accident from the ongoing, present day Syrian war).

Europe, 45

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  1. Minoan civilization
    1. Knossos
  2. Dacia
    1. Dacians
  3. Etruscan civilization
  4. Ancient Greece
    1. Mycenaean Greece
    2. Greco-Persian Wars
    3. Magna Graecia
    4. Delian League
    5. Sparta
  5. Ancient Rome
    1. Roman Kingdom
    2. Roman Republic
    3. Roman Empire
      1. Pompeii
    4. Western Roman Empire
    5. Decline of the Roman Empire
    6. Crisis of the Third Century
    7. Julio-Claudian dynasty
    8. Nerva–Antonine dynasty
    9. Gallic Wars
    10. Macedonian Wars
    11. Roman civil wars
  6. Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
  7. Celts
  8. Cimmerians
  9. Sarmatians
  10. Saxons
    1. Date read: 4 December 2016
    2. Class: C
    3. Views/day: 1,600 (2016)
    4. Size: 45,000
    5. My contribs on reading: Just one edit - insert period.
  11. Scythia
    1. Scythians
  12. Thrace
  13. Migration Period
    1. Alans
    2. Angles
    3. Bulgars
    4. Burgundians
    5. Goths
      1. Ostrogoths
      2. Visigoths
    6. Huns
    7. Moors
    8. Rus' people
    9. Suebi
    10. Vandals

Middle Ages, 150

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  1. Middle Ages
  2. Guild
  3. Boyar
  4. Knight
  5. Knyaz
  6. Samurai
  7. Serfdom
  8. Chivalry

Africa, 8

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

Americas, 8

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  1. Aztec
  2. Inca Empire
  3. Pre-Columbian era
  4. Chimú culture
  5. Mississippian culture
  6. Moche (culture)
  7. Tiwanaku - read Tiwanaku empire instead.
    1. Date read: 4 December 2016
    2. Article class: B (although lots of unreferenced stuff)
    3. Views/day (over past year): 40 (2016)
    4. Article size: 31,000
    5. My contribs on reading: 16 edits, many adding "the" and wikifications.
  8. Wari culture

Asia, 50

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  1. Islamic Golden Age
  2. Mamluk
Central Asia and Iran, 9
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  1. Aq Qoyunlu
  2. Golden Horde
  3. Kara Koyunlu
  4. Muslim conquest of Persia
  5. Khwarazmian dynasty
  6. Göktürks
  7. Seljuq dynasty
    1. Great Seljuq Empire
  8. Uyghur Khaganate
Eastern Asia, 19
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  1. Goryeo
  2. Han Dynasty
  3. Heian period
  4. Jin Dynasty (265–420)
  5. Jin Dynasty (1115–1234)
  6. Liao Dynasty
  7. Mongol Empire
  8. Ninja
  9. Qin Dynasty
  10. Sixteen Kingdoms
  11. Song Dynasty
  12. Southern and Northern Dynasties
  13. Sui Dynasty
  14. Tang Dynasty
  15. Three Kingdoms
  16. Xia Dynasty
  17. Yuan Dynasty
  18. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
  19. Khitan people
Southern Asia, 3
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  1. Delhi Sultanate
  2. Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent
  3. Vijayanagara Empire
Southeastern Asia, 7
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  1. Champa
  2. Khmer Empire
  3. Majapahit
  4. Malacca sultanate
  5. Pagan Kingdom
  6. Srivijaya
  7. Trần Dynasty
Western Asia, 9
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  1. Abbasid Caliphate
  2. Crusades
    1. Crusader states
  3. Empire of Nicaea
  4. Fatimid Caliphate
  5. Latin Empire
  6. Ottoman Empire
  7. Sultanate of Rum
  8. Umayyad Caliphate

Europe, 77

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  1. Black Death
  2. East–West Schism
  3. House of Habsburg
  4. House of Medici
  5. Normans
  6. Renaissance
Eastern Europe and Central, 26
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  1. Cuman people
  2. Eurasian Avars
  3. First Bulgarian Empire
  4. Second Bulgarian Empire
  5. Byzantine Empire
    1. Arab–Byzantine Wars
    2. Byzantine–Bulgarian wars
    3. Byzantine–Ottoman Wars
    4. Fall of Constantinople
  6. Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
  7. Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  8. Grand Duchy of Moscow
  9. Kingdom of Hungary
  10. Hussite Wars
  11. Khazars
  12. Kievan Rus'
  13. Great Moravia
  14. Novgorod Republic
  15. Cretan War (1645–69)
  16. Pechenegs
  17. Teutonic Knights
  18. Vladimir-Suzdal
  19. Volga Bulgaria
  20. Kingdom of Bohemia
  21. Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
  22. Rurik Dynasty
Western Europe, 45
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  1. Al-Andalus
    1. Caliphate of Córdoba
    2. Reconquista
  2. Kingdom of Aragon
  3. Duchy of Burgundy
  4. Kingdom of Castile
  5. Francia
    1. East Francia
    2. West Francia
  6. Kingdom of France
  7. Carolingian Empire
    1. Capetian dynasty
    2. Carolingian dynasty
    3. Merovingian dynasty
  8. Kingdom of England
    1. Anglo-Saxons
    2. Battle of Hastings
    3. Norman conquest of England
    4. Wars of the Roses
  9. Hanseatic League
  10. Kalmar Union
  11. Holy Roman Empire
  12. House of Plantagenet
  13. Hundred Years' War
  14. Inquisition
  15. Knights Templar
  16. Lombards
  17. Northern Crusades
  18. Ostsiedlung
  19. Papal States
  20. Republic of Genoa
  21. Kingdom of Sicily
  22. Republic of Venice
  23. Viking Age
  24. Vikings
  25. Visigothic Kingdom
  26. Austrasia
  27. Franks
  28. Investiture Controversy
  29. Kingdom of Germany
  30. Wends
  31. Gothic War (535–554)
  32. Guelphs and Ghibellines
  33. Neustria
  34. Salic law

Early modern history, 93

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Basics, 11

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  1. Early modern period
  2. Age of Discovery
  3. British Empire
  4. French colonial empire
  5. Little Ice Age
  6. Portuguese Empire
  7. Spanish Empire
  8. Scientific revolution
  9. Seven Years' War
  10. Treaty of Zaragoza
  11. Treaty of Tordesillas

Africa, 9

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  1. African slave trade
  2. Atlantic slave trade
  3. Bornu Empire
  4. Kingdom of Mutapa
  5. Ashanti Empire
  6. Kingdom of Kongo
  7. Oyo Empire
  8. Sennar (sultanate)
  9. Hausa Kingdoms

Americas, 11

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  1. American Revolutionary War
  2. European colonization of the Americas
    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 Wars
    1. French and Indian War
  4. Wounded Knee Massacre
  5. Lewis and Clark Expedition
  6. Spanish American wars of independence

Asia, 23

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  1. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
  2. Bengal famine of 1770
  3. Deccan sultanates
  4. Dutch East India Company
  5. East India Company
  6. Edo period
    1. Tokugawa shogunate
  7. Japanese invasions of Korea
  8. Joseon
  9. Kazakh Khanate
  10. Ming Dynasty
  11. Maratha Empire
  12. Mughal Empire
  13. Russian conquest of Siberia
  14. Safavid dynasty
  15. Sikh Empire
  16. Ayutthaya Kingdom
  17. Khanate of Bukhara
  18. Lan Xang
  19. Lê Dynasty
  20. Khanate of Sibir
  21. Taungoo Dynasty
  22. Zunghar Khanate

Europe, 39

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Basics, 4
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  1. Age of Enlightenment
  2. Protestant Reformation
  3. Thirty Years' War
  4. Counter-Reformation
Western Europe, 16
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  1. 1755 Lisbon earthquake
  2. Anglo-Dutch Wars
  3. Congress of Berlin
  4. Eighty Years' War
  5. English Civil War
  6. French Revolution
    1. French Revolutionary Wars
  7. French Wars of Religion
  8. Huguenot
  9. Italian Wars
  10. Prussia
  11. Puritan
  12. Spanish Inquisition
  13. War of the Austrian Succession
  14. War of the Spanish Succession
  15. Enclosure
Eastern Europe and Central, 19
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  1. Cossacks
    1. Cossack Hetmanate
  2. Crimean Khanate
  3. Great Northern War
  4. Great Turkish War
  5. House of Romanov
  6. Khanate of Kazan
  7. Livonian War
  8. Partitions of Poland
  9. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  10. The Great Game
  11. Tsardom of Russia
    1. Oprichnina
  12. History of the Russo-Turkish wars
  13. Ottoman wars in Europe
  14. Union of Lublin
  15. Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars
  16. Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18)
  17. Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)

Modern history, 213

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Basics, 46

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  1. Modern history
  2. 1973 oil crisis
  3. Abolitionism
  4. Anti-Comintern Pact
  5. Movements for civil rights
  6. Cold War
  7. Decolonization
  8. Financial crisis of 2007–2008
  9. Great Depression
  10. Industrial Revolution
  11. Information Age
  12. Interwar period
  13. Kellogg–Briand Pact
  14. New Imperialism
  15. Space exploration
  16. Space Race
  17. 1918 flu pandemic
  18. War on Terror
  19. Women's suffrage
  20. World War I
    1. Balkans Campaign
    2. Eastern Front
    3. Italian Campaign
    4. Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    5. Treaty of Lausanne
    6. Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)
    7. Treaty of Trianon
    8. Western Front
    9. Paris Peace Conference
  21. World War II
    1. Allies of World War II
    2. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    3. Attack on Pearl Harbor
    4. Axis powers
    5. Battle of the Atlantic
    6. Battle of Britain
    7. Eastern Front
    8. Invasion of Poland
    9. Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II
    10. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
    11. Nuremberg trials
    12. Pacific War
    13. Western Front
    14. Winter War
    15. Yalta Conference
  22. Collectivization

Africa, 18

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  1. Arab Spring
  2. Algerian War
  3. Angolan Civil War
  4. Anglo–Zulu War
  5. Apartheid in South Africa
  6. Biafra
  7. Congo Free State
  8. Ethiopian Civil War
  9. First Boer War
  10. Libyan civil war
  11. Mahdist War
  12. Nigerian Civil War
  13. Rwandan Genocide
  14. Scramble for Africa
  15. Second Boer War
  16. Second Congo War
  17. Second Italo–Ethiopian War
  18. Sokoto Caliphate

Americas, 23

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  1. 2010 Haiti earthquake
  2. African-American Civil Rights Movement
  3. American Civil War
  4. American Indian Wars
  5. Confederate States of America
  6. Cuban missile crisis
  7. Cuban revolution
  8. Dust Bowl
  9. Empire of Brazil
  10. Gran Colombia
  11. Haitian Revolution
  12. Manhattan Project
  13. Mexican War of Independence
  14. Mexican Revolution
  15. Mexican–American War
  16. September 11 attacks
  17. Spanish–American War
  18. Wall Street Crash of 1929
  19. War of 1812
  20. Paraguayan War
  21. War of the Pacific
  22. American frontier
  23. New Deal

Asia, 56

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Eastern Asia, 24
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  1. 1931 China floods
  2. 1976 Tangshan earthquake
  3. 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
    1. Fukushima nuclear disaster
  4. Boxer Rebellion
  5. History of the People's Republic of China
  6. Chinese Civil War
  7. Cultural Revolution
  8. Empire of Japan
  9. First Opium War
  10. First Sino-Japanese War
  11. Great Leap Forward
  12. Great Chinese Famine
  13. Korean War
  14. Meiji period
  15. Meiji Restoration
  16. Qing Dynasty
  17. Russo-Japanese War
  18. Second Opium War
  19. Second Sino-Japanese War
  20. Taiping Rebellion
  21. Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
  22. Xinhai Revolution
  23. Unequal treaty
Southern Asia, 9
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  1. 1970 Bhola cyclone
  2. Bangladesh Liberation War
  3. British Raj
  4. Indian independence movement
  5. Indian Rebellion of 1857
  6. Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
  7. Partition of India
  8. Nguyen dynasty
  9. Konbaung Dynasty
Southeastern Asia, 9
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  1. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  2. Dutch East Indies
  3. French Indochina
  4. Indonesian National Revolution
  5. Philippine–American War
  6. Philippine Revolution
  7. Vietnam War
  8. Khmer Rouge
  9. First Indochina War
Western Asia, 14
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  1. 1953 Iranian coup d'état
  2. Arab–Israeli conflict
  3. Armenian Genocide
  4. Israeli Declaration of Independence
  5. Gulf War
  6. Iran–Iraq War
  7. Iranian Revolution
  8. Iraq War
  9. Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  10. Persian Constitutional Revolution
  11. Soviet war in Afghanistan
  12. Turkish War of Independence
  13. Young Turks
  14. War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Europe, 70

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Basics, 11
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  1. Austrian Empire
  2. Austria-Hungary
  3. Congress of Vienna
  4. European integration
  5. History of the European Union
  6. The Holocaust
  7. Holy Alliance
  8. Iron Curtain
  9. Revolutions of 1848
  10. Treaty of Paris (1814)
  11. Treaty of Versailles
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  1. Balkan Wars
    1. First Balkan War
    2. Second Balkan War
  2. Chernobyl disaster
  3. Crimean War
  4. Czechoslovakia
  5. Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  6. East Germany
  7. French invasion of Russia
  8. Great Purge
  9. Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)
  10. Greek War of Independence
  11. Gulag
  12. Holodomor
  13. Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  14. Polish–Soviet War
  15. Prague Spring
  16. Revolutions of 1989
  17. Russian Civil War
  18. Russian Empire
  19. Revolution of 1905
  20. Russian Revolution
  21. Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
  22. Solidarity (Polish trade union)
  23. Eastern Bloc
  24. Soviet Union
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  25. Yugoslavia
  26. Population transfer in the Soviet Union
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  1. Belgian Revolution
  2. Berlin Wall
  3. First French Empire
  4. Franco-Prussian War
  5. French First Republic
  6. German Confederation
  7. German Empire
  8. German reunification
  9. Great Famine (Ireland)
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  10. Hundred Days
  11. Italian unification
  12. July Revolution
  13. Napoleonic Wars
  14. Nazi Germany
    1. Beer Hall Putsch
    2. Gestapo
    3. Nazi Party
    4. Schutzstaffel
    5. Sturmabteilung
    6. 20 July Plot
  15. Peninsular War
  16. Paris Commune
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  17. Second Spanish Republic
  18. Spanish Civil War
  19. The Troubles
  20. Unification of Germany
  21. Nazi concentration camps
  22. Weimar Republic
  23. Stab-in-the-back myth

Historical cities, 1

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  1. Antioch

Politicians and leaders, 349

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Ancient, 48

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Asia
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Central Asia
  1. Cyrus the Great
  2. Semiramis
Eastern Asia
  1. Qin Shi Huang
  2. Sun Tzu
Egypt
  1. Akhenaten
  2. Cleopatra
  3. Djoser
  4. Hatshepsut
  5. Nefertiti
  6. Ptahhotep
  7. Ptolemy I Soter
  8. Ramesses II
  9. Thutmose III
  10. Tutankhamun
  11. Seti I
Southern Asia
  1. Ashoka
  2. Chandragupta Maurya
Western Asia
  1. Croesus
  2. Hammurabi
  3. Mithridates VI of Pontus
  4. Queen of Sheba
  5. Dareios I.
  6. Emperor Gaozu of Han
Europe
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Ancient Rome
  1. Antoninus Pius
  2. Augustus
  3. Caligula
  4. Constantine the Great
  5. Domitian
  6. Julius Caesar
  7. Marcus Aurelius
  8. Nero
  9. Theodosius I
  10. Tiberius
  11. Trajan
Eastern Europe
  1. Attila
  2. Pyrrhus of Epirus
Hellenistic Kingdom
  1. Seleucus I Nicator
Greece
  1. Alexander the Great
  2. Philip II of Macedon
  3. Alcibiades
  4. Demosthenes
  5. Pericles
  6. Solon
Western Europe
  1. Alaric I
  2. Arminius
  3. Boudica
  4. Vercingetorix
  5. Hannibal

Middle Ages, 67

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Asia
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Byzantine Empire
  1. Basil II
  2. Heraclius
  3. Justinian I
  4. Leo III the Isaurian
  5. Manuel I Komnenos
Caliphates
  1. Abu Bakr
  2. Harun al-Rashid
  3. Muawiyah I
  4. Umar
  5. Uthman ibn Affan
Central Asia
  1. Batu Khan
  2. Hulagu Khan
  3. Timur
  4. Ulugh Beg
China
  1. Kublai Khan
Eastern Asia
  1. Genghis Khan
  2. Ögedei Khan
Western Asia
  1. Mehmed the Conqueror
  2. Osman I
  3. Saladin
Europe
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Eastern Europe
  1. Matthias Corvinus
  2. Simeon I of Bulgaria
  3. Stephen I of Hungary
  4. Vlad the Impaler
England and Scotland
  1. Alfred the Great
  2. Edward I of England
  3. Henry II of England
  4. John, King of England
  5. Richard I of England
  6. William the Conqueror
France
  1. Charlemagne
  2. Chlothar I
  3. Clovis I
  4. Louis the Pious
  5. Louis XI of France
  6. Philip II of France
  7. Philip IV of France
Germany
  1. Arnulf of Carinthia
  2. Charles the Fat
  3. Henry the Fowler
Holy Roman Empire
  1. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Charles the Bald
  3. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  6. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
  7. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Italy
  1. Girolamo Savonarola
  2. Lucrezia Borgia
Papal States
  1. Pope Alexander VI
  2. Pope Boniface VIII
  3. Pope Gregory VII
  4. Pope Innocent III
Poland and Lithuania
  1. Bolesław I Chrobry
  2. Jogaila
  3. Mieszko I of Poland
Russia
  1. Alexander Nevsky
  2. Ivan III of Russia
  3. Sviatoslav I of Kiev
  4. Vladimir the Great
Southern Europe
  1. Theoderic the Great
Western Europe
  1. Afonso I of Portugal
  2. Cnut the Great
  3. Ferdinand II of Aragon
  4. Henry the Navigator
  5. Isabella I of Castile
  6. Lothair I

Early modern period, 60

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Americas
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Americas
  1. Atahualpa
  2. Moctezuma II
  3. Sitting Bull
United States
  1. Alexander Hamilton
  2. George Washington
  3. James Madison
  4. John Adams
  5. Thomas Jefferson
Asia
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Central Asia
  1. Abbas I of Persia
  2. Babur
  3. Humayun
Japan
  1. Oda Nobunaga
  2. Tokugawa Ieyasu
  3. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Southern Asia
  1. Akbar
  2. Aurangzeb
  3. Shah Jahan
Western Asia
  1. Mehmed IV
  2. Selim I
  3. Selim III
  4. Suleiman the Magnificent
Europe
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England and Scotland
  1. Charles I of England
  2. Elizabeth I of England
  3. Henry VIII
  4. James VI and I
  5. Mary I of England
  6. Mary, Queen of Scots
  7. Robert Walpole
  8. William III of England
  9. William Pitt the Younger
France
  1. Cardinal Mazarin
  2. Cardinal Richelieu
  3. Catherine de' Medici
  4. Francis I of France
  5. Henry IV of France
  6. Louis XIV
  7. Louis XV of France
  8. Louis XVI of France
Holy Roman Empire
  1. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Maria Theresa
  6. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Italia and Papal States
  1. Pope Clement VII
  2. Pope Julius II
Poland and Lithuania
  1. John III Sobieski
  2. Sigismund III Vasa
Russia
  1. Alexis of Russia
  2. Boris Godunov
  3. Catherine the Great
  4. Elizabeth of Russia
  5. Ivan the Terrible
  6. Peter the Great
Western Europe
  1. Charles XII of Sweden
  2. Christian IV of Denmark
  3. Frederick the Great
  4. Philip II of Spain
  5. Philip V of Spain
  6. William the Silent

Modern, 145

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Africa, 17
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Eastern Africa
  1. Haile Selassie I
  2. Idi Amin
  3. Julius Nyerere
Northern Africa
  1. Abdelkader El Djezairi
  2. Anwar Sadat
  3. Gamal Abdel Nasser
  4. Muammar Gaddafi
  5. Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Southern and Central Africa
  1. Cecil Rhodes
  2. Hastings Banda
  3. Mobutu Sese Seko
  4. Nelson Mandela
  5. Robert Mugabe
  6. Shaka
Western Africa
  1. Kofi Annan
  2. Kwame Nkrumah
  3. Léopold Sédar Senghor
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Brazil
  1. Pedro I of Brazil
  2. Pedro II of Brazil
Canada
  1. Pierre Trudeau
Central America and Caribbean
  1. Daniel Ortega
  2. Fidel Castro
Mexico
  1. Benito Juárez
  2. Porfirio Díaz
South America
  1. Alfredo Stroessner
  2. Augusto Pinochet
  3. Eva Perón
  4. Hugo Chávez
  5. José de San Martín
  6. Salvador Allende
  7. Simón Bolívar
United States
  1. George W. Bush
  2. Jimmy Carter
  3. Bill Clinton
  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  5. Andrew Jackson
  6. Lyndon B. Johnson
  7. John F. Kennedy
  8. Henry Kissinger
  9. Abraham Lincoln
  10. Douglas MacArthur
  11. James Monroe
  12. Richard Nixon
  13. James K. Polk
  14. Ronald Reagan
  15. Eleanor Roosevelt
  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  17. Theodore Roosevelt
  18. Harry S. Truman
  19. Woodrow Wilson
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China
  1. Empress Dowager Cixi
  2. Zhou Enlai
  3. Hu Jintao
  4. Chiang Kai-shek
  5. Puyi
  6. Deng Xiaoping
  7. Sun Yat-sen
  8. Mao Zedong
Eastern Asia
  1. Park Chung-hee
  2. Hirohito
  3. Kim Il-sung
  4. Emperor Meiji
  5. Eisaku Satō
Central Asia
  1. Heydar Aliyev
  2. Nursultan Nazarbayev
  3. Saparmurat Niyazov
  4. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
India
  1. Indira Gandhi
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru
Southeastern Asia
  1. Corazon Aquino
  2. Ferdinand Marcos
  3. Ho Chi Minh
  4. Mahathir Mohamad
  5. Pol Pot
  6. Suharto
  7. Sukarno
  8. Lee Kuan Yew
Southern Asia
  1. Benazir Bhutto
  2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Western Asia
  1. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  2. David Ben-Gurion
  3. Abdul Hamid II
  4. Saddam Hussein
  5. Mahmud II
  6. Golda Meir
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Austria-Hungary
  1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  2. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  4. Klemens von Metternich
Eastern Europe
  1. Alexander Dubček
  2. Enver Hoxha
  3. Leonid Kuchma
  4. Josip Broz Tito
  5. Józef Piłsudski
  6. Lech Wałęsa
  7. Nicolae Ceaușescu
  8. Slobodan Milošević
  9. Václav Havel
France
  1. Charles de Gaulle
  2. François Mitterrand
  3. Louis Philippe I
  4. Napoleon
  5. Napoleon III
Germany
  1. Adolf Hitler
  2. Erich Honecker
  3. Willy Brandt
  4. Helmut Kohl
  5. Konrad Adenauer
  6. Otto von Bismarck
  7. Joseph Goebbels
  8. Wilhelm II, German Emperor
  9. William I, German Emperor
Italia and Papal States
  1. Pope John Paul II
Russia and USSR
  1. Alexander II of Russia
  2. Boris Yeltsin
  3. Eduard Shevardnadze
  4. Joseph Stalin
  5. Leonid Brezhnev
  6. Mikhail Gorbachev
  7. Nicholas I of Russia
  8. Nicholas II of Russia
  9. Nikita Khrushchev
United Kingdom
  1. Benjamin Disraeli
  2. Clement Attlee
  3. Diana, Princess of Wales
  4. Elizabeth II
  5. Margaret Thatcher
  6. Queen Victoria
  7. William Ewart Gladstone
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Robert Baden-Powell
Western Europe
  1. António de Oliveira Salazar
  2. Benito Mussolini
  3. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  4. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  5. Charles XIV John of Sweden
  6. Dag Hammarskjöld
  7. Francisco Franco
  8. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  9. Juan Carlos I of Spain
  10. Leopold II of Belgium
  11. Christian Michelsen
  12. Giuseppe Garibaldi
  13. Alcide De Gasperi

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  1. Ban Ki-moon (U.N.)
  2. Pope Francis (Pope)
  3. Dilma Rousseff (Brazil)
  4. Justin Trudeau (Canada)
  5. Xi Jinping (China)
  6. François Hollande (France)
  7. Angela Merkel (Germany)
  8. Narendra Modi (India)
  9. Matteo Renzi (Italy)
  10. Shinzō Abe (Japan)
  11. Vladimir Putin (Russia)
  12. Theresa May (U.K.)
  13. Barack Obama (U.S.)

Military leaders and military theorists, 16

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  1. Flavius Aetius
  2. Pompey
  3. Scipio Africanus
  4. Sulla
  5. Prince Eugene of Savoy
  6. Alexander Suvorov
  7. Carl von Clausewitz
  8. Ulysses S. Grant
  9. T. E. Lawrence
  10. Robert E. Lee
  11. George Marshall
  12. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
  13. Erwin Rommel
  14. Vo Nguyen Giap
  15. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  16. Georgy Zhukov

Rebels, revolutionaries and activists, 35

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Africa
  1. Steve Biko
  2. Thomas Sankara
Asia
  1. Yasser Arafat
  2. Aung San Suu Kyi
  3. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  4. Ruhollah Khomeini
  5. Osama bin Laden
Europe
  1. Joan of Arc
  2. Oliver Cromwell
  3. Georges Danton
  4. Vladimir Lenin
  5. Vasil Levski
  6. Martin Luther
  7. Florence Nightingale
  8. Emilia Plater
  9. Gavrilo Princip
  10. Maximilien de Robespierre
  11. Spartacus
  12. Mother Teresa
  13. Leon Trotsky
  14. William Wallace
  15. Simon Wiesenthal
Americas
  1. Che Guevara
  2. Pancho Villa
USA
  1. Susan B. Anthony
  2. Emma Goldman
  3. Al Gore
  4. Mother Jones
  5. Helen Keller
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  7. Rosa Parks
  8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  9. Sojourner Truth
  10. Harriet Tubman
  11. Malcolm X

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