Dick's Guide to World History, index
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Source Material: A History of World Societies, Fifth Edition, Volume II, Since 1500 by McKay, Hill, Buckler, Ebrey
The Four Rivers of Early Civilization
Today's cultural links to the ancient world
Political Ethics and Confucius, "Perfect Virtue" from the Analects, 551 - 479 BC
Political Ethics and Plato, "Crito", 428 BC to 347 BC
Political Ethics and Aristotle, "Nichomachean Ethics", 384 BC to 320 BC
Political Ethics and Augustine, "On Lying", 354 to 430 AD
Today's cultural links to the Middle Ages
Islam in the middle ages
Asia in the middle ages
Africa in the middle ages
Renaissance
Reformation
World societies grow closer
Monarchs and the seeds of democracy in Europe
Science and enlightenment in Europe
How Europeans lived during the age of Monarchs
Africa's world role from 1400 to 1800
What did Nzinga Mbemba, King of the Congo, want from the King of Portugal in 1526
The Islamic world role from the 1450's to 1800's
Asia's world role from the 1400's to 1800's
The awakening of liberty in the Western world from the American Revolution to Napoleon
The birth of the industrial age in Europe
Political Ethics and Immanuel Kant in "The Right of Punishing" from The Metaphysics of Morals, 1724 to 1804 AD
Political Ethics and Jeremy Bentham, "An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation", 1748 - 1832
Freedom and war in Europe in the 1800's
Political Ethics and Friedrich Nietzsche in "Beyond Good and Evil" 1844 to 1900 AD
Political Ethics and Henry Sidgwick, Veracity in The Methods of Ethics, 1874
Political Ethics and John Stuart Mill, "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion", 1806 - 1873
European nationalism rears its ugly head
European Political Ethics in Africa, Albert Camus, "The Guest" in the 1900's
What was happening in Africa and Asia during western industrialization?
New nations from Australia to the Americas
The first World War and the Russian Revolution
Asia nationalism in the early 1900's
Maybe Western culture ain't so great, from W.W.I to the Depression.
Dictators return to Europe; Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, World War Two
After World War Two in Western Societies
Political Ethics and Thurgood Marshall in "Gregg v. Georgia" from The United States Supreme Court (1976), 1908 to 1993 AD
Asia and Africa today
Life in today's developing countries
Towards a cooperative world