Nations of the World
- Science & History
History of China
From Neolithic river villages to dynasties that lasted for centuries, then a revolution that ended imperial rule
30 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Japan
From cord-marked pottery on a Neolithic archipelago to a nuclear disaster on a shaken coastline, sixteen thousand years of islands remaking themselves
34 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Korea
A bear who became a woman, a peninsula fought over by every dynasty in East Asia, and an alphabet built to make everyone literate in a matter of days
31 events · 100% sourced - History
History of India
Cities with covered drains 4,500 years ago, an emperor who renounced war after winning it, six centuries of Muslim and Mughal rule, a colony wrenched free by a man with a spinning wheel, and a partition that killed a million people the week it was born
28 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Iran
A conquest that could not erase a language, a shah deposed by a CIA cable, and a revolution that replaced a crown with a cleric
27 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Russia
From a Viking trading post on the Dnieper to the largest country on Earth, through empire, revolution, and collapse
31 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Germany
From the Teutoburg Forest to a divided nation reunited, the long argument over what "Germany" even is
33 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of France
From Vercingetorix's last stand at Alesia to a Fifth Republic in the EU, the long story of one country rebuilding itself again and again
34 events · 100% sourced - History
History of England
A Roman province that outlasted Rome, a peasant uprising that shook a kingdom, and a small island that ran a quarter of the world before giving most of it back
30 events · 100% sourced - History
History of Spain
Iberian tribes, Roman emperors, a caliphate at Cordoba, and a Reconquista that took nearly 800 years to finish
27 events · 100% sourced - History
History of Italy
A peninsula that fractured into rival kingdoms and city-states after Rome fell, then spent thirteen centuries putting itself back together as one country
27 events · 100% sourced - History
History of Greece
A classical civilization that spent most of its history as someone else's province, then had to build a nation-state twice, once in 1830 and again in 1974
26 events · 100% sourced - History
History of Turkey
A land bridge fought over by Hittites, Greeks, Romans, and Turks, and the republic that Mustafa Kemal built on its ashes in a single decade
27 events · 100% sourced - History
History of Egypt
A country ruled from Rome, Damascus, Baghdad, Istanbul, London, and finally itself again, and a river that outlasted every one of them
24 events · 100% sourced - History
History of Nigeria
Iron Age sculptors, bronze-casting kingdoms, an amalgamation drawn up by a British governor, and Africa's most populous nation
26 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Canada
From the first peoples of the Americas and a Norse camp in Newfoundland to Confederation, the railway, two world wars, and a reckoning with the residential-school system
38 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Mexico
From the Olmec's colossal stone heads to a modern republic, told through the conquest that ended one empire and the revolution that remade the nation twice
34 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Brazil
A land of hundreds of nations before 1500, the destination of nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to the Americas, and the only monarchy the New World's republics ever tolerated
24 events · 100% sourced - History
History of the United States
A hundred English colonists on a swampy island, a constitution argued out over one Philadelphia summer, a country that doubled its size for four cents an acre and fought a civil war over who counted as free, and the superpower that came out the other side
32 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
History of Australia
65,000 years of the world's oldest living cultures, a penal colony's dispossession of them, and the reckoning still underway
33 events · 100% sourced - History
History of Ireland
A passage tomb older than the pyramids, an alphabet of monks and manuscripts, and an island fought over, planted, starved, and finally split in two
24 events · 100% sourced