OmniTutor — History

By era

walk the centuries · pick a starting point

Antiquity3000 BCE — 500 CE

Ancient world

Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Mauryas, Han China — the first cities, the first writing, the first empires.

312 topics · 28 lessons

Medieval500 — 1500

The middle ages

Byzantium, the Islamic golden age, feudal Europe, Tang & Song China, the Mongol expansion, the Vijayanagara south.

258 topics · 24 lessons

Early modern1500 — 1800

Renaissance & revolutions

Printing, science, the Reformation, the Mughal court, Edo Japan, the Atlantic slave trade, the American & French revolutions.

290 topics · 26 lessons

Modern1800 — 1945

The long 19th & the world wars

Industrial revolution, nationalism, colonial empires, abolition, two world wars, the rise of mass politics.

340 topics · 32 lessons

Contemporary1945 — today

Our world

Cold War, decolonization, the digital age, climate, the global south's rise, a planet in 8 billion conversations.

320 topics · 30 lessons

By region

history is local · choose your map

🌏World historyConnections, comparisons, the big picture.340 topics · cross-region

🏛EuropeGreece, Rome, the Christian middle ages, modernity.280 topics

🕌Middle EastMesopotamia, Persia, Islam, the Ottomans, modernity.170 topics

⛩East AsiaChina, Japan, Korea, Vietnam — and their entanglements.220 topics

🐘South AsiaIndus to Mughals to modern South Asia.180 topics

🦁AfricaPre-colonial empires, slave trade, decolonization, today.150 topics

🦅The AmericasPre-Columbian, conquest, revolution, the modern hemispheres.200 topics

🌊Oceans & tradeIndian Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific — history through sea routes.90 topics

By theme

cut across eras · trace one thread

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Wars & conflict

Why people fight, and how peace comes

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Revolutions

Political, industrial, scientific

📜

Ideas & ideologies

Liberty, equality, faith, capitalism

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Law & institutions

From Hammurabi to constitutions

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Religion

Faith as motor of history

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Empires

Their rise, rule, and undoing

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Economic history

Trade, currency, industry, inequality

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Culture & the arts

How societies tell their own stories

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Science & technology

From the printing press to the internet

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Everyday life

What ordinary people ate, wore, believed

Big questions

history reads best as a question

▸ classic causation

Why did Rome fall?

+148 students · ~25 min · 5 competing theories

▸ economic origin

Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?

+126 students · ~30 min · coal · culture · institutions

▸ counterfactual

What if the Mongols had not turned back from Europe?

+98 students · ~22 min · alternative history

▸ causes of war

Why did WWI actually happen?

+187 students · ~28 min · alliances · empires · accident

▸ comparative

Why did China have gunpowder before Europe — but not industrialize?

+89 students · ~32 min · Needham question

▸ origin myth

How did people know the Earth was round before space?

+71 students · ~15 min · history of science

By person

history through individual lives

A

Alexander

356 — 323 BCE

A

Ashoka

304 — 232 BCE

G

Genghis Khan

1162 — 1227

L

Leonardo

1452 — 1519

A

Akbar

1542 — 1605

N

Napoleon

1769 — 1821

G

Gandhi

1869 — 1948

M

Mandela

1918 — 2013

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