History : World
Whether you are a teacher or parent who is teaching children the alphabet, or just someone who loves words, alphabetizing, alliteration, or all of the above, we hope you find these word lists useful.
These are not meant to be exhaustive--just thorough, covering the basics from many categories that can be tied to the academic curriculum.
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A
African Slave Trade, Alexander the Great, Anglo-Saxons, Archimedes, Aristotle, Attila the Hun, Aztecs
B
Babylon, Bacon (Francis), Black Death, British Empire, Bronze Age, Buddha, Byzantine Empire
C
Capitalism, Captain James Cook, Catherine the Great, Centurion (Rome), Charlemagne, Churchill (Winston), Cleopatra, Colonialism, Communism, Confucius, Constantine, Constantinople, Crusades (The), Cuneiform, Curie (Marie)
D
Dalai Lama, Darwin (Charles), Descartes (Rene), Drake (Francis)
E
East India Trading Company, Egypt, Einstein (Albert), Emperor, Empress, Enlightenment
F
Feudalism, Frank (Anne), Freud (Sigmund)
G
Galileo, Gandhi (Mahatma), Genghis Khan, Greece, Greek, Gutenberg (Johannes)
H
Hawking (Stephen), Hieroglyphs (Egypt), Hitler (Adolf), Homer (Greece)
I
Inca Empire, Information Age, Iron Age, Islamic Conquests
J
Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar
K
King Alfred, King Henry VIII, King Solomon (Israel)
L
Latin, Leif Erickson
M
Magellan, Mandela (Nelson), Marx (Karl), Mary Queen of Scots, Mayans, Mesopotamia, Middle Ages, Ming Dynasty (China), Mongols, Muhammad
N
Napoleon Bonaparte, Nazi Germany, Nero, Newton (Isaac), Nightingale (Florence), Nuclear War
O
Ottoman Empire
P
Pasteur (Louis), Persia, Pharaoh, Plato, Polo (Marco), President, Prime Minister, Protestant Reformation
Q
Qin Dynasty (China), Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of Sheba, Queen Victoria
R
Ramses II, Rasputin, Renaissance, Robert the Bruce (Scotland), Roman Catholic Church, Roman Empire, Rome
S
Saint Paul, Shakespeare, Socrates, Stalin (Joseph)
T
Thatcher (Margaret), Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Tutankhamun
U
United Nations
V
Victorian Era, Vikings, Voltaire
W
Wilberforce (William), World War I, World War II
X
Xia Dynasty (China)
Z
Zanzibar (Africa)
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