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DR. LYNN H. NELSON


  • HUMAN ORIGINS

  • HUNTING AND GATHERING
  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

  • THE URBAN REVOLUTION
  • THE ERA OF THE CITY STATE
  • THE INDO-EUROPEANS

  • THE HEROIC AGE
  • THE BRONZE AGE EMPIRES
  • THE EMERGENCE OF THE ETHICAL RELIGIONS

  • THE IRON AGE EMPIRES
  • THE CLASSICAL EMPIRES
  • THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS AND RECOVERY

  • THE SHAPING OF WESTERN EUROPE
  • REALISM AND NOMINALISM
  • THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

  • THE FACTORY SYSTEM AND COTTAGE INDUSTRY
  • THE AGE OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION
  • CIVILIZATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

  • THE IMPACT OF DISCOVERY ON EUROPE
  • THE SLAVE TRADE

  • THE SEA-BORNE EMPIRES
  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
  • ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM

  • LIBERALISM AND BREAK-UP OF SEA-BORNE EMPIRES
  • FREE TRADE, FREE LABOR AND MIGRATION
  • THE RESHAPING OF THE WORLD

  • THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
  • THE RISE OF THE UNITED STATES
  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  • THE GREAT DEPRESSION
  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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    This text by Lynn H. Nelson
    History Professor Emerita
    University of Kansas
    12 January 1998
    Lawrence KS
    Original author, WWW-VL: History