The Handy History Answer Book

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781578591701
• ISBN10: 1578591708
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Summary

Expansions and revision of the highly successful first edition, with more than 150 new questions & answers relating to political, entertainment, Internet, scientific, technical, medical, and economic developments, because history happens all the time.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Chronology of Selected Events	xv
Eras and Their Highlights	1	(36)
Prehistoric Era
Stone Age
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Age
Greek Civilization
Mycenaean Age
The Roman Republic
Holy Roman Empire
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
European Colonialism
The Enlightenment
The Scientific Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
Era of the World Wars
The Cold War
Early Twenty-first Century
Religion	37	(30)
Roman Mythology
Greek Mythology
Buddhism
Hinduism
Shinto
The Bible
The Hebrew Bible
Christianity
The Old Testament
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Ten Commandments
Golgotha
Islam
The Koran
Five Pillars of Faith
Mecca
The Crusades
The Catholic Church
Popes
The Reformation
Counter Reformation
Martin Luther
Jesuits
The Puritans
The Protestant Ethic
Mother Teresa
Pope John Paul II
Exploration and Settlement	67	(38)
Marco Polo
The Vikings
Christopher Columbus
Cabeza de Vaca
Hernando de Soto
Ferdinand Magellan
Sir Francis Drake
Captain Cook
Lost Colony
Pilgrims
Lewis and Clark
Manifest Destiny
American Immigration
Northwest Passage
Robert Peary
Roald Amundsen
Sir Edmund Hillary
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Space Exploration
War and Conflict	105	(114)
Trojan War
Peloponnesian War
Alexander the Great
Attila the Hun
Genghis Khan
Hundred Years' War
Joan of Arc
French and Indian War
American Revolution
French Revolution
Napoleon
War of 1812
American Civil War
Spanish-American War
Russian Revolution
World War I
Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
Persian Gulf War
War in the Baltics
Government and Politics	219	(72)
King Tut
Mayan Empire
Aztec Empire
Roman Empire
Tang Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
Ottoman Empire
Holy Roman Empire
The Romanov Dynasty
Marie Antoinette
Napolean
Boston Tea Party
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
The American Presidency
Watergate
The Holocaust
United Nations
G-8
Mahatma Gandhi
Palestine Liberation Organization
Iron Curtain
Office of Homeland Security
Law and Famous Trials	291	(28)
Roman Law
Code Napolean
International Law
Geneva Conventions
U.S. Supreme Court
Racial Segregation
Salem Witch Trials
John Peter Zenger
Dred Scott Decision
Susan B. Anthony
Mata Hari
Scopes Monkey Trial
Billy Mitchell
Al Capone
Nuremberg Trials
Alger Hiss
Rosenbergs
Roe v. Wade
ABSCAM
Gang of Four
Nicolae Ceausescu
Beltway Sniper
9/11 Conspirators
Economics and Business	319	(44)
Capitalism
Adam Smith
Monetary Systems
Federal Reserve
ATMs
The Euro
American Tobacco Industry
Navigation Acts
Gold Rush
Oil Industry
Textile Industry
Bonanza Farms
Bessemer Steel
Department Stores
Black Friday
Robber Barons
New York Stock Exchange
Assembly Line
New Deal
Auto Industry
Computer Industry
Income Tax
NAFTA
Y2K
Enron
Political and Social Movements	363	(40)
Nationalism
Zionism
Indian Reform Movement
Solidarity
Apartheid
Tiananmen Square
Antislavery Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr
.Malcolm X
Ku Klux Klan
Temperance Movement
Suffragist Movement
Equal Rights Amendment
Birth Control Movement
Populism
Labor Unions
Beat Movement
Environmental Protection
Natural and Man-Made Disasters	403	(34)
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Tropical Storms
Hurricanes
Floods
Blizzards
Droughts
Dust Bowl
Fires
Titanic
Hindenburg
Airplane Accidents
Apollo 13
Challenger
Coloumbia
Blackout of 2003
Love Canal
Three Mile Island
Chernobyl
Oklahoma City Bombing
Medicine and Disease	437	(26)
Hippocratic Oath
Biological Warfare
Anthrax
Ancient Medicine
Gray's Anatomy
Spontaneous Generation
Vaccines
Louis Pasteur
Antibiotics
Florence Nightingale
Red Cross
Clara Barton
Insulin
X-ray
Marie and Pierre Curie
Jonas Salk
Organ Transplantation
Test-tube Baby
Stem Cell Research
Leprosy
Yellow Fever
AIDS
The Flu
Behaviorism
Psychoanalysis
Jungian Psychology
Philosophy	463	(18)
Taoism
Confucius
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Scholasticism
Sir Francis Bacon
Descartes
Empiricism
Kant's Philosophies
Hegelian Dialect
Existentialism
Nietzsche
Natural Law
John Locke
Thomas Paine
Marxism
Socialism
Communism
Fascism
Science and Invention	481	(38)
Pythagoras
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Galileo
Halley's Comet
Isaac Newton
George Washington Carver
Alfred Nobel
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Big Bang Theory
Carl Sagan
Charles Darwin
The Leakeys
The Calendar
Thomas Edison
Trains
Henry Ford
Wright Brothers
Samuel Morse
Telephone
Television
Computer Technology
Internet
Culture and Recreation	519	(77)
First Written Language
Alphabet
Invention of Paper
First Book
Printing Methods
Johannes Gutenberg
Journalism
Education
Folktales
Poetry
Novels
Harlem Renaissance
Harry Potter
Fine Art
Photography
Architecture
Theater
Music
Dance
Movies
Radio and Television
Games
Sports
Further Reading	596	(10)
Index	606