Hunters and farmers, c. 7 million-3000 BP
The first class societies, c. 3000-1000 BC
Ancient empires, c. 1000-30 BC
The end of antiquity, c 30 BC-AD 650
The medieval world, c. AD 650-1500
European feudalism, c. AD 650-1500
The first wave of bourgeois revolutions 1517-1660
Absolutist Europe and capitalist globalisation 1660-1775
The second wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1775-1815
The rise of industrial capitalism, c. 1750-1850
The age of blood and iron 1848-1873
Imperialism and war, 1873-1918
The revolutionary wave, 1917-1928
The Great Depression and the rise of fascism, 1929-1939
World War and Cold War, 1939-1967
The world on fire 1968-1975
The new world disorder, 1975-2008
Capitalism's greatest crisis? the early twenty-first century
Conclusion: Making the future.