Paradigm World History

Topics covered in each chapter of Paradigm People Places and Events of World History include:

1. 5000 BC-1200 BC
   Where it all began; What they built, wore, and ate; Industry; War; Literature; Sources of energy; Wheels; Symbols, Leaders; Fun; Math; Astronomy; Pyramids; Tribes; Families; Search for God; Huts and castles; Chariots; Conquerors; Terraces; Wind Power; Oceans; Travel; Early America; Ancient Africa.
2. 1200 BC-1000 AD
   Ancient Greek government, clothing, and families; Religion of ancient Mexico; Bronze Age food and temples; Barbaric Assyrian armies; and slave labor; Military engineers and secret tunnels; Roads, highways, and pictographs; Buddha, Jesus, and Confucius; Olympic games; Phoenician ships; Romans in Gaul and England; The burning of Rome; Celtic culture; Jewish patriots in; Roman Military tactics in Gaul; Rise of India; Alexander the Great; Cicero and Virgil; Vesuvius and Pompeii; Inca Roads; gladiators; Ptolemy’s maps.
3. 500 BC-600 AD
   Caesar Constantine; Christianity’s origin, Bible, and persecution; Buddhist temples; German tillage; Dancing and music; Great Wall of China; Chariot races; ships, sails, and oceans; St. Patrick; Muhammad; Japanese food; Byzantine church domes; Anglo-Saxons; North American Indians; Chinese silk; Irish curraghs; Atila the Hun; Legends and Sagas; Europe’s Dark Ages.
4. 632 AD-1675 AD
   The Middle Ages; Charlemagne; Gauls and Franks; the Crusades, Islam, and the Dome of the Rock; Genghis Khan; Marco Polo; American Pyramids; Hohokam life; Dukes; Cathedrals; Settlements in North America; The Magna Carta; King Arthur, Dante, and Thomas Aquinas; Status quo vs new ideas; John Knox and Queen Mary; Martin Luther and Protestantism; John Wycliffe’s Bible; Cliff and tepee homes; Spanish Conquistadors; Christopher Columbus; Hernando Cortes; Montezuma; Guttenberg’s press; The Invincible Armada; Galileo; Church reformers; Gunpowder; Magellan; William Tyndale; John Calvin’s model city; Catholic opposition to Protestant reformation.
5. 1400 AD-1900AD
   Queen Elizabeth I; John Bunyan’s; John Wesley, George Whitfield, and the Great Awakening; Spanish conquest in America; Puritans, Pilgrims, and the Mayflower; Isaac Newton; Johannes Kepler; Joan of Arc; African slaves; William Shakespeare; The King James Bible; Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel; Raffaello Sanzio; Leonardo Da Vinci; John Milton; George Handel’s “Messiah”; La Salle; Thomas Jefferson; the U.S. Declaration of Independence; Napoleon Bonaparte; Karl Marx; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; the American Civil War; William Carey; The Salvation Army; Charles Spurgeon; feathers and beavers; Louis Pasteur; The Industrial Revolution; Factories; Free markets; George Washington; Patrick Henry; Simon Bolivar; George Washington Carver’s peanuts; Ludwig van Beethoven; Von Goethe; Benjamin Franklin; Michael Faraday; Submarines; Steamships; the Suez Canal; The first telephones; Clara Barton; Florence Nightingale; William Wilberforce; Captain Cook.
6. 1800 AD-2011 AD
   Socialism, Fascism, and Communism; Hitler, Lenin, Wilson, Nazi Party; Boy and Girl Scouts; Gandhi; Islam, Muhammad; Gideon Bibles; Fashions; Railroads; Thomas Edison and the light bulb; World War I and World War II; Winston Churchill; Allied Forces; Pear Harbor; Axis Powers; General Douglas MacArthur; Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Great Depression; The Dust Bowl; Hollywood; Albert Einstein; Spies and traitors; Henry Ford’s Auto; the Wright Brother’s airplane; Radio waves; The Iron Curtain; Cameras; Man on the Moon; Nations and alliances; the United Nations; Billy Graham; Mother Teresa; Princess Diana; Reinhardt Bonnke; Burgers soda pop; Fast food; Television, laptops, iPhones, and MP3 players; Islamic attacks; Pop, Rock, and Gospel music; Sputnik; John Wayne; Ronald Reagan; Margaret Thatcher; Barrack Obama; Where we are and where we are going.

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