1. Egypt, fourteenth century BCE
2. Judah and Israel, seventh century BCE
3. Greece, fifth and fourth centuries BCE
4. Rome, second and first centuries BCE
5. Judea, second century BCE
6. Roman Empire, first and second centuries CE
7. Roman Empire, third and fourth centuries
8. Persia, second through sixth centuries
9. Roman Empire, fourth and fifth centuries
10. The Germanic kingdoms, fifth through eighth centuries
11. Byzantine Empire, sixth through tenth centuries
12. Islamic Empire, seventh through fifteenth centuries
13. Europe, eleventh through fifteenth centuries
14. Asia, fifth through seventeenth centuries
15. Africa, eighteenth through nineteenth centuries
16. Europe, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
17. North and South America, sixteenth through eighteenth centuries
18. France, eighteenth century
19. Oceania and Australia, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
20. East Asia, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
21. Europe, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
22. North and South America, nineteenth century
Epilogue : The twentieth century and after.
