Muchang Bahng

Personal Notes: History

The following are the topics I have studied (and will be planning to study) during my time in the Korean military until November 2022. As these notes are primarily for my personal use, I did not spend as much time writing them in a manner that is clear for all readers. But since it would be a waste not to share them, I uploaded them on this website. All of my personal notes are free to download, use, and distrbute under the Creative Commons "Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International" license. Please contact me if you find any errors in my notes or have any further questions. I have used the LaTeX editing program Overleaf to create my notes; diagrams are often drawn using the tikz package or iPad Notes.

Ancient Mesopotamia

  • Sumerians:
  • Akkadians:
  • Old Babylonia: Hammurabi's Code
  • Old Assyria:
  • Assyrian Empire:
  • Neo-Babylonian Empire:

Ancient Egypt

Ancient China

Ancient India

Persian Empire

Ancient Greece (1200 BCE - 600 CE)

  • Athens: Courts, legal systems
  • Roman Greece

The Roman Empire (625 BCE - 476 CE)

  • Society: Social Ranks, Senates
  • Trade: Silver, Financial crises
  • Fall: Fall of Western Roman Empire

Middle Ages (500 CE - 1500 CE)

  • Eastern Roman Empire still survives
  • Ottoman Empire is founded and expands
  • Feudalism, the Church, Medieval Times
  • Byzantine Greece and Ottoman Greece
  • Crusades begin (1096)
  • The Black Death (1347)
  • Ends with fall of Constantinople

Early Modern Period (1500 CE - 1800 CE)

  • The Renaissance
  • Age of Enlightenment
  • Age of Exploration: Discovery of Americas by Chrisotopher Columbus (1492)
  • The Protestant Reformation with Martin Luther's Thesis (1517)
  • American Revolution for independence against Britian (1765-91)
  • French Revolution: Napoleon's rise to power
  • Industrial Revolution

Late Modern Period (1800 CE - 1980 CE)

  • Industrial Revolution continues until 1830s
  • World War I (1914-18)
  • Russian Revolution, leading to rise of Soviet Union (1917)
  • The Great Depression of 1929 in the US
  • World War II (1939-45)
  • Chinese Communist Revolution, leading to establishment of People's Republic of China (1949)
  • The Cold War (1945-1991)

Postmodern Period (1980 CE - )

  • 1992 Black Wednesday
  • 2001 Tech Bubble
  • 2008 Housing Crisis
  • 2010 Flash Crash
  • 2021 Coronavirus