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Conquest and war
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Empires of the Steppe
Horse archers, and the largest land empire in history
1206–1526 · 10 steps →
India: Sultanates to Independence
Seven centuries from Delhi's first sultan to Partition
1206–1971 · 13 steps →
The Mongol Conquests
A steppe confederation that reached from Korea to Hungary
1206–1402 · 10 steps →
The Reconquista
Seven centuries of Iberia, and what followed in 1492
1212–1494 · 5 steps →
England and Scotland
Eight centuries from Runnymede to a single parliament
1215–1707 · 8 steps →
The Making of Russia
From tribute-paying princes to an empire on the Baltic
1242–1917 · 7 steps →
The Making of the Middle East
Borders drawn in European capitals, argued over ever since
1258–2010 · 16 steps →
China: Empire to Republic
From the last Song emperor to Tiananmen
1271–1989 · 13 steps →
Japan and Korea
Two neighbours, four centuries, and the wars between them
1274–2011 · 12 steps →
The Hundred Years' War
116 years, three English victories, and a French peasant girl
1337–1429 · 5 steps →
The Balkans
Six centuries between empires
1389–1995 · 7 steps →
The Ottoman Centuries
From a field in Kosovo to the abolition of the Caliphate
1389–1924 · 17 steps →
Korea
An alphabet, two invasions and a line drawn in a night
1392–1950 · 6 steps →
The Gunpowder Empires
How cannon rewrote the map of Eurasia
1453–1571 · 7 steps →
Japan Transformed
Civil war, closure, and the fastest modernisation in history
1467–2011 · 9 steps →
Persia and Iran
Five centuries of a country other people kept deciding about
1501–1980 · 7 steps →
The Mughal Empire
From a battlefield at Panipat to the ruin of Delhi
1526–1857 · 7 steps →
The First World War
From a wrong turn in Sarajevo to a railway carriage in a forest
1914–1919 · 26 steps →
The Russian Century
From a bread queue in Petrograd to a border crossing in 2022
1917–2022 · 15 steps →
The Second World War
From a chancellery in Berlin to a battleship in Tokyo Bay
1933–1945 · 33 steps →
Divided Berlin
One city, four sectors, forty-four years
1945–1989 · 4 steps →
From Ruins to Union
Europe after 1945
1945–2022 · 7 steps →
The Middle East Since 1948
Wars, oil, revolution and an unfinished peace
1948–2011 · 12 steps →
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Empires and colonies
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The Sultanates of India
Three centuries between the Mongols and the Mughals
1206–1556 · 7 steps →
Southern Africa
Stone walls, ox wagons, gold and a vote
1250–1994 · 7 steps →
Southeast Asia
Empires of the archipelago, and the wars of the twentieth century
1293–1975 · 12 steps →
The Conquest of the Americas
Two worlds joined, and one of them destroyed
1428–1780 · 11 steps →
Borders Drawn by Strangers
Lines on maps, made by people who did not live there
1494–1950 · 7 steps →
Africa and Europe
Conquest, partition, and the long work of getting free
1526–1994 · 20 steps →
Britain and Its Empire
A trading company to a quarter of the world, and back
1600–1992 · 18 steps →
North America Before the Republic
Colonies, wars and the peoples already there
1607–1763 · 7 steps →
The Price of Empire
What conquest cost the conquered
1757–1954 · 9 steps →
China and the West
From 'we have no need of your manufactures' to the handover
1793–1997 · 7 steps →
The Napoleonic Wars
A general who became an emperor, and the Europe he left behind
1799–1815 · 9 steps →
Manifest Destiny
How the United States became continental
1803–1898 · 9 steps →
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Revolution and rights
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Southeast Asia and the Powers
Four centuries between empires
1511–1975 · 8 steps →
The American Story
A swamp in Virginia to a bank in Manhattan
1607–2008 · 27 steps →
Revolutions
When people decided their rulers were not permanent
1649–2010 · 15 steps →
Ireland and Britain
Rebellion, famine and the long argument
1707–1845 · 3 steps →
The American Revolution
From a tea cargo in a harbour to a written constitution
1773–1787 · 7 steps →
The French Revolution
How a bankrupt monarchy became a republic, a terror, and an empire
1789–1799 · 23 steps →
Women's Rights
From a march on Versailles to the ballot box
1789–1920 · 4 steps →
Latin America Breaks Free
From a slave revolt in Saint-Domingue to a coup in Santiago
1791–1973 · 7 steps →
Labour and the Vote
Who was allowed to be counted, and how they made it happen
1819–1980 · 7 steps →
The Road to Indian Independence
From the rebellion of 1857 to the birth of three nations
1857–1971 · 7 steps →
The Decolonisation of Asia
Empires leaving, and the borders they left behind
1896–1971 · 5 steps →
Mao's China
The Long March to Tiananmen
1934–1989 · 6 steps →
The Civil Rights Movement
Law, boycott, television and a bridge in Alabama
1954–1968 · 5 steps →
The Fall of Communism
Twenty-one years from Prague to the Kremlin
1968–1991 · 7 steps →
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Faith and ideas
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Africa's Great Empires
Gold, salt, stone and scholarship, from Lalibela to Sokoto
1200–1804 · 18 steps →
Faith and War in Europe
From a sacked Christian capital to the peace that ended holy war
1204–1648 · 16 steps →
The Medieval Church
From the height of papal power to the split it could not prevent
1215–1545 · 5 steps →
The Silk Roads
The world was connected long before Europe connected it
1275–1511 · 7 steps →
Italy and the Renaissance
Bankers, domes and the trouble with telling the truth
1282–1633 · 7 steps →
The Fourteenth-Century Crisis
Plague, famine, schism and war across Eurasia
1317–1398 · 12 steps →
Central Europe
The lands between, and the empires that wanted them
1356–1968 · 10 steps →
The Renaissance
Money, printing and the rediscovery of the world
1434–1633 · 7 steps →
Ideas That Moved the World
Sentences that outlived the people who wrote them
1446–1989 · 13 steps →
The Written Word
Alphabets, presses, wires and the web
1446–1989 · 6 steps →
The Reformation
One monk, one press, and 130 years of war
1517–1648 · 10 steps →
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Science and invention
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The Pacific World
The greatest feat of navigation in human history, and what came after
1250–1975 · 15 steps →
How the World Got Connected
Caravans, sea routes, canals, cables and packets
1275–1989 · 11 steps →
The Voyages
How the sea routes of the world were joined
1275–1770 · 9 steps →
Plagues and Medicine
The diseases that shaped history, and the fight against them
1347–2020 · 8 steps →
Scandinavia and the North
A union of three crowns, an age of Swedish power, and the pole
1397–1911 · 4 steps →
Exploring the Extremes
The furthest places people have deliberately gone
1519–1969 · 5 steps →
Science That Changed the World
From a canon who moved the Earth to a machine that read a genome
1543–2003 · 17 steps →
The Machine Age
Land, steam, current and the assembly line
1760–1947 · 7 steps →
The Conquest of Disease
Why you can expect to live twice as long as your ancestors
1796–2003 · 7 steps →
The Nuclear Age
Three pages of arithmetic, and everything that followed
1905–2011 · 6 steps →
The Cold War
Forty-four years in which two powers could destroy the world and did not
1945–1991 · 18 steps →
The Space Race
From a beeping sphere to a photograph of home
1957–1969 · 4 steps →
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Money and trade
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Hunger, Plague and Climate
Seven centuries of the weather and the microbe
1315–2020 · 8 steps →
Money and Crisis
Bubbles, banks and the invention of the modern economy
1637–2008 · 8 steps →
The Industrial World
Coal, steam, wire and capital
1694–2008 · 15 steps →
The Great Depression
A crash, a chancellor, a new deal and a dust storm
1929–1935 · 4 steps →
The Post-War Order
The institutions built between 1944 and 1949
1944–1992 · 6 steps →
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Catastrophe
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Slavery and Abolition
Twelve and a half million people, and the fight to end it
1491–1963 · 13 steps →
The Atlantic World
Three continents joined by ships
1492–1863 · 6 steps →
The American Civil War
The republic's reckoning with slavery
1857–1865 · 6 steps →
Genocides of the Modern Age
How the word came to exist, and what it was needed for
1904–1995 · 8 steps →
The World Since 1989
One order ends and nobody agrees what replaced it
1989–2022 · 17 steps →