The Handy Military History Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton

Prehistory

First Settlements

The Late Bronze Age

Hebrews and Jews

Greeks and Persians

Greek versus Greek

The Phalanx

Alexander

Alexander’s Successors

EMPIRES AND BARBARIANS: 320 B.C.E. TO 800 C.E.

Early Rome

Punic Wars

“Our Sea,” the Mediterranean

Roman Civil War

The Roman Empire

Augustus’ Heirs

The Pax Romana

Barbarian Tribes and the Fall of Rome

The Byzantine Empire

The Arab Explosion

Charlemagne

THE WORLD ISLAND: 801 TO 1405

The Mongols

The Mongols in China

Tamerlane and Bayezid

HOLY WARS: 1095 TO 1453

The Normans

The First Crusade

Jihad

The Third Crusade

The Fourth Crusade

Philip versus John

Border Wars

The Hundred Years’ War

End of the Byzantine Empire

RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION WARFARE: 1454 TO 1648

Luther and Pope Leo X

Cortés and Montezuma

Magellan and Elcano

Henry, Charles, and Francis

The Terrible Turk

Catholic versus Protestant

The Rise of Russia

The Rise of England

Malta and Lepanto

       The Spanish Armada

       Religious Wars in France

       The Thirty Years’ War

       THE ENLIGHTENMENT: 1648 TO 1763

       The Rise of France

       The Short Peace

       War of the Austrian Succession

       French, Indians, English, and Americans

       AGE OF REVOLUTION: 1763 TO 1799

       Commander in Chief

       The Times That Try Men’s Souls

       Year of the Hangman

       Diplomats