# History Decks

Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization.

Canonical URL: https://shipslides.com/c/history
Deck count: 27

## Decks

### 20th-Century Revolutions
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-20th-century-revolutions
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-20th-century-revolutions/llms.txt
Slides: 17
Tags: history, 20th, century, revolutions

01 / 17 History · Deck 10 · Pop-Art Comic 20th-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS! 1917 · 1949 · 1959 · 1968 · 1979 · 1989 — six decades of crowds in the streets, governments overthrown, and assumptions shattered. A century told through its hinges. Key sections include: 20th-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS!; In this issue; What's a revolution?; Russia's First Try; Mexico; October in Petrograd; Mao at Tiananmen; Castro & the 26 July; The Year of Fire; Chile · Counter-revolution.

Outline:
1. 20th-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS!
2. In this issue
3. What's a revolution?
4. Russia's First Try
5. Mexico
6. October in Petrograd
7. Mao at Tiananmen
8. Castro & the 26 July
9. The Year of Fire
10. Chile · Counter-revolution
11. Iran & the Rest
12. People Power, Manila
13. Annus Mirabilis
14. Aftershocks
15. What revolutions teach
16. Faces of the century
17. Where to go

### African Empires
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-african-empires
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-african-empires/llms.txt
Slides: 14
Tags: history, african, empires

MALI SONGHAI AKSUM G. ZIMBABWE KONGO 01 / 14 History · Deck 08 · Risograph African Empires Mali · Songhai · Kongo · Great Zimbabwe · Aksum — large, literate, wealthy, confidently negotiated. The story your high school skipped. Key sections include: African Empires; Contents; A Continent; A Christian kingdom on the Red Sea; The Land of Gold; Sundiata · Mansa Musa · Timbuktu; The Greatest African Empire; A Christian Kingdom on the Atlantic; The Stone City; Cities of the monsoon.

Outline:
1. African Empires
2. Contents
3. A Continent
4. A Christian kingdom on the Red Sea
5. The Land of Gold
6. Sundiata · Mansa Musa · Timbuktu
7. The Greatest African Empire
8. A Christian Kingdom on the Atlantic
9. The Stone City
10. Cities of the monsoon
11. Asante · Benin · Dahomey · Ethiopia
12. Manuscripts & Metallurgy
13. The Colonial Rupture
14. Where to go

### The Age of Exploration
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-age-of-exploration
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-age-of-exploration/llms.txt
Slides: 17
Tags: history, age, exploration

A century and a half during which European sails — and almost no one else's at this scale — joined the hemispheres of the world. Key sections include: The Age of Exploration; Contents; Why the Fifteenth Century; Henry the Navigator; Dias rounds the Cape; Vasco da Gama; Columbus; A Line Down the Atlantic; Cortés; Pizarro.

Outline:
1. The Age of Exploration
2. Contents
3. Why the Fifteenth Century
4. Henry the Navigator
5. Dias rounds the Cape
6. Vasco da Gama
7. Columbus
8. A Line Down the Atlantic
9. Cortés
10. Pizarro
11. Magellan & the First Circumnavigation
12. Zheng He's Treasure Fleets
13. Old World ↔ New World
14. The Atlantic Slave Trade
15. Drake · Hudson · Frobisher
16. After the Maps Were Drawn
17. Where to go

### Ancient Civilizations
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-ancient-civilizations
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-ancient-civilizations/llms.txt
Slides: 18
Tags: history, ancient, civilizations

Mesopotamia · Egypt · Indus · Greece · Rome Key sections include: Ancient Civilizations; A reading order; The First Cities; Gift of the Nile; The Silent Civilization; Three Thousand Years; The Polis Awakens; Periclean Athens; Alexander & After; Republic.

Outline:
1. Ancient Civilizations
2. A reading order
3. The First Cities
4. Gift of the Nile
5. The Silent Civilization
6. Three Thousand Years
7. The Polis Awakens
8. Periclean Athens
9. Alexander & After
10. Republic
11. Imperium
12. What They Built
13. Religions of the Old World
14. Texts That Survive
15. The Ancient World
16. A Roll Call
17. Why It Still Matters
18. Where to go from here

### Asian Dynasties
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-asian-dynasties
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-asian-dynasties/llms.txt
Slides: 16
Tags: history, asian, dynasties

History · Deck 07 Asian Dynasties A long quiet across long centuries. Tang, Song, Ming, Qing, Tokugawa, Joseon — empires that ruled, often, more populations than all of Europe combined, and that wrote some of the most beautiful sentences in any language. Key sections include: Asian Dynasties; Contents; The middle kingdom; The first golden age; A handful of poems; The first modern economy; The Mongol interlude; Porcelain & the wall; The last empire; The long peace of Edo.

Outline:
1. Asian Dynasties
2. Contents
3. The middle kingdom
4. The first golden age
5. A handful of poems
6. The first modern economy
7. The Mongol interlude
8. Porcelain & the wall
9. The last empire
10. The long peace of Edo
11. The hermit kingdom
12. The civil-service examination
13. A comparative chronology
14. Arts & technologies
15. After the dynasties
16. Where to go

### Cold War Spies
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-cold-war-spies
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-cold-war-spies/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: history, cold, war, spies

Two superpowers, no direct combat, forty-six years of espionage at unprecedented scale. The Cold War was many things; it was also the golden age of intelligence agencies — the period when "spy" became a profession with civil-service grades. Key sections include: Cold War Spies.; Opening The secret war.; Chapter I 1945: the agencies form.; Chapter II The Cambridge Five.; Chapter III Berlin: the front line.; Chapter IV The atomic intelligence.; Chapter V Defectors east and west.; Chapter VI 1985: the year of the spy.; Chapter VII SIGINT and IMINT.; Chapter VIII The thirteen days..

Outline:
1. Cold War Spies.
2. Opening The secret war.
3. Chapter I 1945: the agencies form.
4. Chapter II The Cambridge Five.
5. Chapter III Berlin: the front line.
6. Chapter IV The atomic intelligence.
7. Chapter V Defectors east and west.
8. Chapter VI 1985: the year of the spy.
9. Chapter VII SIGINT and IMINT.
10. Chapter VIII The thirteen days.
11. Chapter IX Vietnam.
12. Chapter X The surveillance state.
13. Chapter XI The craft.
14. Chapter XII The ghost in the building.
15. Chapter XIII The KGB archive.
16. Chapter XIV The man without a face.
17. Chapter XV Major operations.
18. Chapter XVI The other other side.
19. Chapter XVII The price at home.
20. Chapter XVIII The literature.
21. Chapter XIX Did intelligence change outcomes?
22. Chapter XX 1989-91: the unwinding.
23. Chapter XXI What persists.
24. Chapter XXII What we still do not know.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to know more.
28. Chapter XXVI The argument.
29. Chapter XXVII Five lessons that hold.
30. End of file.

### The Cold War
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-cold-war
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-cold-war/llms.txt
Slides: 19
Tags: history, cold, war

01 / 19 ★ History · Deck 04 The Cold War 1945 · 1991 · A FORTY-SIX-YEAR STAND-OFF Key sections include: The Cold War; Contents; Yalta & Potsdam; The Iron Curtain; Berlin · NATO · The Bomb; Korea — The First Hot War; Stalin Dies · The Thaw; The Space Race; Thirteen Days; Vietnam.

Outline:
1. The Cold War
2. Contents
3. Yalta & Potsdam
4. The Iron Curtain
5. Berlin · NATO · The Bomb
6. Korea — The First Hot War
7. Stalin Dies · The Thaw
8. The Space Race
9. Thirteen Days
10. Vietnam
11. Détente
12. Two Systems, in Numbers
13. Solidarity · Charter · Sakharov
14. Gorbachev
15. The Wall
16. The Union Dissolves
17. Cast
18. What Remained
19. Where to go

### The French Revolution — The Deck Catalog
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-french-revolution
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-french-revolution/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: history, french, revolution

The Revolution did not invent democracy or human rights — it inherited them from the Enlightenment and the Americans. What it invented was the modern political. The deliberate remaking of state, society, calendar, religion, and citizenship from a single legislative body, against the resistance of the established order and at the cost of perhaps 40,000 lives in the Terror. Key sections include: The French Revolution. 1789 · 1799 · the Old Regime ends; Ten years that changed everything.; The Old Regime.; The Estates General.; The Tennis Court Oath.; The Bastille.; The Declaration.; The Women's March on Versailles.; The constitutional monarchy.; The Constitution of 1791..

Outline:
1. The French Revolution. 1789 · 1799 · the Old Regime ends
2. Ten years that changed everything.
3. The Old Regime.
4. The Estates General.
5. The Tennis Court Oath.
6. The Bastille.
7. The Declaration.
8. The Women's March on Versailles.
9. The constitutional monarchy.
10. The Constitution of 1791.
11. The flight to Varennes.
12. The Legislative Assembly.
13. The fall of the monarchy.
14. The September Massacres.
15. The Convention.
16. The execution of the king.
17. The Girondins vs the Jacobins.
18. The Committee of Public Safety.
19. Maximilien Robespierre.
20. The Reign of Terror.
21. Marat in the bath.
22. The Cult of the Supreme Being.
23. 9 Thermidor.
24. The Directory.
25. The 18 Brumaire.
26. The causes.
27. The legacy.
28. The arguments.
29. The shelf.
30. Watch & read.
31. FINIS · LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ

### Greek Civilization
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-greek-civilization
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-greek-civilization/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: history, greek, civilization

In a strip of broken coastline and stony islands, between roughly 800 and 300 BCE, a constellation of small cities produced the philosophical, political, and aesthetic categories that the rest of the West has been arguing about ever since. Key sections include: Hellas.; Opening The Greek miracle.; Chapter I The Bronze Age palaces.; Chapter II Homer.; Chapter III The polis.; Chapter IV Solon and the seisachtheia.; Chapter V Cleisthenes invents democracy.; Chapter VI Sparta.; Chapter VII The Persian Wars: Marathon.; Chapter VIII Thermopylae and Salamis..

Outline:
1. Hellas.
2. Opening The Greek miracle.
3. Chapter I The Bronze Age palaces.
4. Chapter II Homer.
5. Chapter III The polis.
6. Chapter IV Solon and the seisachtheia.
7. Chapter V Cleisthenes invents democracy.
8. Chapter VI Sparta.
9. Chapter VII The Persian Wars: Marathon.
10. Chapter VIII Thermopylae and Salamis.
11. Chapter IX The Age of Pericles.
12. Chapter X The tragedians.
13. Chapter XI The first historians.
14. Chapter XII Socrates.
15. Chapter XIII Plato.
16. Chapter XIV Aristotle.
17. Chapter XV The Peloponnesian War.
18. Chapter XVI The fourth-century crisis.
19. Chapter XVII Alexander.
20. Chapter XVIII The Hellenistic world.
21. Chapter XIX Bronzes and marbles.
22. Chapter XX The Olympians.
23. Chapter XXI Hellenistic philosophy.
24. Chapter XXII The trireme.
25. Chapter XXIII The other Greeks.
26. Chapter XXIV Hippocrates and Galen.
27. Chapter XXV Rome arrives.
28. Chapter XXVI The transmission.
29. Chapter XXVII Twenty-five essentials.
30. Chapter XXVIII Watch & read.
31. The end of the deck.

### Industrial Britain
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-industrial-britain
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-industrial-britain/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: history, industrial, britain

Between roughly 1760 and 1840, on a small wet island off the northwest coast of Europe, human beings broke through a ceiling on productivity that had constrained every previous society in history. Key sections include: Cotton, Coal, & Iron.; Opening The thing that had never happened.; Chapter I Why Britain, why then.; Chapter II Newcomen's atmospheric engine.; Chapter III James Watt's separate condenser.; Chapter IV The cotton industry.; Chapter V Arkwright and the factory system.; Chapter VI Manchester.; Chapter VII Iron and coke.; Chapter VIII The canal age..

Outline:
1. Cotton, Coal, & Iron.
2. Opening The thing that had never happened.
3. Chapter I Why Britain, why then.
4. Chapter II Newcomen's atmospheric engine.
5. Chapter III James Watt's separate condenser.
6. Chapter IV The cotton industry.
7. Chapter V Arkwright and the factory system.
8. Chapter VI Manchester.
9. Chapter VII Iron and coke.
10. Chapter VIII The canal age.
11. Chapter IX The railway age.
12. Chapter X Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
13. Chapter XI King Coal.
14. Chapter XII Child labour.
15. Chapter XIII The Luddites.
16. Chapter XIV The 1832 Reform Act.
17. Chapter XV The Chartists.
18. Chapter XVI The new cities.
19. Chapter XVII Cholera and public health.
20. Chapter XVIII The empire feeds the mills.
21. Chapter XIX 1851: The Great Exhibition.
22. Chapter XX The workshop of the world.
23. Chapter XXI The Lunar Society.
24. Chapter XXII Bessemer and steel.
25. Chapter XXIII The standard of living debate.
26. Chapter XXIV The information revolution.
27. Chapter XXV The long retreat.
28. Chapter XXVI What survives.
29. Chapter XXVII Twenty-five essentials.
30. Chapter XXVIII Watch & read.
31. The end of the deck.

### INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION // DECK 03
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-industrial-revolution
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-industrial-revolution/llms.txt
Slides: 17
Tags: history, industrial, revolution

[ STEAM_/_STEEL_/_SMOKE ] 1760 — 1900 // BRITAIN -> EUROPE -> WORLD Key sections include: INDUS TRIAL REVO LUTION; // INDEX; WHY BRITAIN, WHY 1760?; COTTON FIRST; // 1709 - 1903; NEWCOMEN -> WATT -> TREVITHICK; DARBY · CORT · BESSEMER; // THE ENERGY BUDGET; 1830 // MANCHESTER; THE IRON ROAD.

Outline:
1. INDUS TRIAL REVO LUTION
2. // INDEX
3. WHY BRITAIN, WHY 1760?
4. COTTON FIRST
5. // 1709 - 1903
6. NEWCOMEN -> WATT -> TREVITHICK
7. DARBY · CORT · BESSEMER
8. // THE ENERGY BUDGET
9. 1830 // MANCHESTER
10. THE IRON ROAD
11. ELECTRICITY & OIL
12. BELGIUM, FRANCE, GERMANY
13. LOWELL · PITTSBURGH · CHICAGO
14. // THE COST
15. UNIONS & SOCIALISM
16. ESCAPE FROM MALTHUS
17. // BIBLIOGRAPHY

### The Mongol Empire
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-mongol-empire
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-mongol-empire/llms.txt
Slides: 33
Tags: history, mongol, empire

In a single lifetime, a man born under the name Temüjin united the warring tribes of the steppe, conquered northern China, sacked the great cities of Central Asia, and outlived all his rivals. His grandsons completed the rest. Key sections include: The Mongol Empire.; Opening The empire that re-made Eurasia.; Chapter I The steppe.; Chapter II Genghis Khan's rise.; Chapter III The Secret History.; Chapter IV One people.; Chapter V The military machine.; Chapter VI Khwarazm.; Chapter VII The Mongol peace.; Chapter VIII 1227..

Outline:
1. The Mongol Empire.
2. Opening The empire that re-made Eurasia.
3. Chapter I The steppe.
4. Chapter II Genghis Khan's rise.
5. Chapter III The Secret History.
6. Chapter IV One people.
7. Chapter V The military machine.
8. Chapter VI Khwarazm.
9. Chapter VII The Mongol peace.
10. Chapter VIII 1227.
11. Chapter IX Ögedei.
12. Chapter X The general.
13. Chapter XI The invasion of Rus'.
14. Chapter XII 1241.
15. Chapter XIII Why Europe lived.
16. Chapter XIV The second wave.
17. Chapter XV 1258.
18. Chapter XVI Kublai Khan.
19. Chapter XVII The conquest of Song China.
20. Chapter XVIII Marco Polo.
21. Chapter XIX The kamikaze.
22. Chapter XX Fragmentation.
23. Chapter XXI The Horde and Russia.
24. Chapter XXII Persia under the Ilkhans.
25. Chapter XXIII Central Asia.
26. Chapter XXIV Plague.
27. Chapter XXV Collapse.
28. Chapter XXVI Timur.
29. Chapter XXVII What endures.
30. Chapter XXVIII The revisionists.
31. Chapter XXIX Twenty-five works.
32. Chapter XXX Watch & read.
33. The end of the deck.

### The Persian Empire
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-persian-empire
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-persian-empire/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: history, persian, empire

Before Rome, before Han China, the Achaemenid Persians built the largest contiguous land empire the world had yet seen — and the most administratively sophisticated. From the Indus to the Aegean, twenty-three peoples paid tribute to a single Great King. Key sections include: King of Kings.; Opening The first world empire.; Chapter I The Iranian plateau.; Chapter II Cyrus the Great.; Chapter III Darius I.; Chapter IV The satrapies.; Chapter V The Royal Road.; Chapter VI Persepolis.; Chapter VII Xerxes and the Greek campaigns.; Chapter VIII Zoroaster..

Outline:
1. King of Kings.
2. Opening The first world empire.
3. Chapter I The Iranian plateau.
4. Chapter II Cyrus the Great.
5. Chapter III Darius I.
6. Chapter IV The satrapies.
7. Chapter V The Royal Road.
8. Chapter VI Persepolis.
9. Chapter VII Xerxes and the Greek campaigns.
10. Chapter VIII Zoroaster.
11. Chapter IX The court.
12. Chapter X The fourth-century empire.
13. Chapter XI Alexander's conquest.
14. Chapter XII The Seleucid interlude.
15. Chapter XIII The Parthians.
16. Chapter XIV The Sasanian revival.
17. Chapter XV Khosrow I and the codification.
18. Chapter XVI The Arab conquest.
19. Chapter XVII The dig at Persepolis.
20. Chapter XVIII The sources.
21. Chapter XIX The daric.
22. Chapter XX Qanats and canals.
23. Chapter XXI The Achaemenid women.
24. Chapter XXII The Magi.
25. Chapter XXIII Persia in the Greek imagination.
26. Chapter XXIV The language and the script.
27. Chapter XXV The Shahnameh.
28. Chapter XXVI The afterlife.
29. Chapter XXVII Twenty-five essentials.
30. Chapter XXVIII Watch & read.
31. The end of the deck.

### Pre-Columbian Americas
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-pre-columbian
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-pre-columbian/llms.txt
Slides: 16
Tags: history, pre, columbian

AZTEC MAYA INCA MISSISSIPPIAN CAHOKIA 01 / 16 History · Deck 09 · Bauhaus Pre— Columbian Americas Two continents. Tens of thousands of years. Maya, Inca, Aztec, Mississippian — civilisations that built cities, mapped stars, and farmed altitudes that no Old World agriculture had imagined. Key sections include: Pre— Columbian Americas; Contents; Two hemispheres, separately; First Americans; The mother culture; A civilisation in glyphs; The Place of the Gods; Tenochtitlan; Tawantinsuyu; Mississippian Cahokia.

Outline:
1. Pre— Columbian Americas
2. Contents
3. Two hemispheres, separately
4. First Americans
5. The mother culture
6. A civilisation in glyphs
7. The Place of the Gods
8. Tenochtitlan
9. Tawantinsuyu
10. Mississippian Cahokia
11. Zero, the count, the calendars
12. Roads, terraces, quipu
13. Foods that fed the world
14. A chronology
15. What was lost
16. Where to go

### The Renaissance
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-renaissance
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-renaissance/llms.txt
Slides: 18
Tags: history, renaissance

Liber Quintus · History · Deck V The Renaissance Florence · the Medici · Leonardo · the recovery of the human measure Key sections include: The Renaissance; Contents; What Was Reborn; The City on the Arno; The Early Masters; The Pater Patriae; The Humanists; Il Magnifico; Da Vinci; Buonarroti.

Outline:
1. The Renaissance
2. Contents
3. What Was Reborn
4. The City on the Arno
5. The Early Masters
6. The Pater Patriae
7. The Humanists
8. Il Magnifico
9. Da Vinci
10. Buonarroti
11. The High Renaissance
12. Venice & Bellini
13. The Northern Renaissance
14. Machiavelli
15. A New Heaven
16. The Reformation
17. The Long Echo
18. Where to go from here

### The Roman Empire — The Deck Catalog
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/history-roman-empire
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-roman-empire/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: history, roman, empire

Rome is the empire against which every later European state has measured itself. Charlemagne crowned in 800. The Holy Roman Empire that lasted to 1806. The Tsars who took the title from Caesar. Napoleon's eagles. The eagles of the Wehrmacht. Mussolini's fascio . Each was an attempt to inherit something Rome had been. Key sections include: The Roman Empire Senatus Populusque Romanus; Opening Why this empire still matters.; Chapter I The Republic, in brief.; Chapter II Caesar.; Chapter III Augustus and the Principate.; Chapter IV The Pax Romana.; Chapter V The Julio-Claudians.; Chapter VI 69 CE — the Year of the Four Emperors.; Chapter VII The Flavians.; Chapter VIII The Five Good Emperors..

Outline:
1. The Roman Empire Senatus Populusque Romanus
2. Opening Why this empire still matters.
3. Chapter I The Republic, in brief.
4. Chapter II Caesar.
5. Chapter III Augustus and the Principate.
6. Chapter IV The Pax Romana.
7. Chapter V The Julio-Claudians.
8. Chapter VI 69 CE — the Year of the Four Emperors.
9. Chapter VII The Flavians.
10. Chapter VIII The Five Good Emperors.
11. Chapter IX Trajan and maximum extent.
12. Chapter X Hadrian and the wall.
13. Chapter XI Marcus Aurelius.
14. Chapter XII Commodus and the crisis.
15. Chapter XIII The Severans.
16. Chapter XIV The Crisis of the Third Century.
17. Chapter XV Diocletian and the Tetrarchy.
18. Chapter XVI Constantine and Christianity.
19. Chapter XVII Theodosius and the split.
20. Chapter XVIII The fall of the West.
21. Chapter XIX The economy.
22. Chapter XX Roman law.
23. Chapter XXI The Roman military.
24. Chapter XXII Roads, aqueducts, infrastructure.
25. Chapter XXIII Religion before and after.
26. Chapter XXIV The legacy.
27. Chapter XXV The historian.
28. Chapter XXVI A shelf of twenty-two.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
30. Chapter XXVIII Why it lasted.
31. Finis Imperii.

### The World Wars
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LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/history-world-wars/llms.txt
Slides: 19
Tags: history, world, wars

From the Sarajevo pistol to the Hiroshima cloud — a single, broken arc. Key sections include: The Daily Catalog; Two Wars That Made the Twentieth Century; Contents; The Powder-Train of Europe; Lamps Going Out; Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele; A World War, Truly; Total War, Total Society; Three Revolutions in a Single Year; Versailles & Its Discontents.

Outline:
1. The Daily Catalog
2. Two Wars That Made the Twentieth Century
3. Contents
4. The Powder-Train of Europe
5. Lamps Going Out
6. Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele
7. A World War, Truly
8. Total War, Total Society
9. Three Revolutions in a Single Year
10. Versailles & Its Discontents
11. The Twenty Years' Crisis
12. War Returns
13. Where the War Was Decided
14. Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
15. The Shoah
16. Endgame in Europe
17. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
18. A New Order
19. Read & Watch

### REVOLUTIONS // The 20th Century
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-20th-century-revolutions
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-20th-century-revolutions/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, 20th, century, revolutions

01 / 13 ← → / SPACE / CLICK A 13-PART AGITPROP DECK · 1900 — 2000 REVOLUTIONS The 20th Century RUSSIA · CHINA · CUBA · IRAN · THE COLONIES 02 PETROGRAD · 1917 1917 Russia — Two Revolutions in One Year From Autocracy to October The setting: Romanov dynasty, three centuries of tsarist autocracy, devastated by World War I — mass casualties, food... Key sections include: Russia — Two Revolutions in One Year; MEXICO — The First Social Revolution of the Century; Civil War & Stalin's Consolidation; China — The People's Republic; DECOLONIZATION — Empire Folds Up; Cuba — Castro & Che; Vietnam — Thirty Years' War; Cultural Rupture , Not Regime Change; Iran — The Islamic Republic; The Wall Falls — And With It, an Empire.

Outline:
1. Russia — Two Revolutions in One Year
2. MEXICO — The First Social Revolution of the Century
3. Civil War & Stalin's Consolidation
4. China — The People's Republic
5. DECOLONIZATION — Empire Folds Up
6. Cuba — Castro & Che
7. Vietnam — Thirty Years' War
8. Cultural Rupture , Not Regime Change
9. Iran — The Islamic Republic
10. The Wall Falls — And With It, an Empire
11. The Anatomy of a Revolution
12. Further Reading & Watching

### Age of Exploration — Caravels and Conquest 1400–1600
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LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-age-of-exploration/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, age, exploration

N S W E Anno Domini MCDXCII · A Cartographer's Account AGE OF EXPLORATION Caravels & Conquest · 1400 — 1600 Drawn upon parchment · with rhumb & rose Key sections include: AGE OF EXPLORATION Caravels & Conquest · 1400 — 1600; Why now? The Push to the Open Sea; Henry the Navigator — Patron of the Atlantic; Bartolomeu Dias — Rounding the Cape; Cristóbal Colón — A Westward Wager; Vasco da Gama — The Sea Road to India; Treaty of Tordesillas — A Line on the World; Magellan & Elcano — Around the World; Cortés & Pizarro — Conquest and Collapse; The Columbian Exchange.

Outline:
1. AGE OF EXPLORATION Caravels & Conquest · 1400 — 1600
2. Why now? The Push to the Open Sea
3. Henry the Navigator — Patron of the Atlantic
4. Bartolomeu Dias — Rounding the Cape
5. Cristóbal Colón — A Westward Wager
6. Vasco da Gama — The Sea Road to India
7. Treaty of Tordesillas — A Line on the World
8. Magellan & Elcano — Around the World
9. Cortés & Pizarro — Conquest and Collapse
10. The Columbian Exchange
11. Dutch & English Ascendancy
12. The Dark Side of the Age
13. Further Reading & Listening

### Aegyptus — Three Thousand Years on the Nile
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-ancient-egypt
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-ancient-egypt/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, ancient, egypt

From the unification of the Two Lands to the death of Cleopatra — a civilization that watched empires rise and fall, and outlasted them all. Key sections include: Aegyptus; The Gift of the River; Old Kingdom — The Pyramid Age; Middle Kingdom — A Classical Age; New Kingdom — The Empire; Ma'at & the Afterlife; Hieroglyphs — Words of the Gods; Engineering & Craft; Daily Life on the River; The Long Twilight.

Outline:
1. Aegyptus
2. The Gift of the River
3. Old Kingdom — The Pyramid Age
4. Middle Kingdom — A Classical Age
5. New Kingdom — The Empire
6. Ma'at & the Afterlife
7. Hieroglyphs — Words of the Gods
8. Engineering & Craft
9. Daily Life on the River
10. The Long Twilight
11. Cleopatra VII — The Last Pharaoh
12. Why Egypt Endures
13. Further Reading

### COLD WAR / 1945-1991
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-cold-war
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-cold-war/llms.txt
Slides: 14
Tags: catalog, history, cold, war

SUBJECT: ORIGIN 1945 FILE 002/13 // SECTION 02 — POSTWAR CONFIDENTIAL THE BREAK CODENAME // YALTA-POTSDAM May 1945 — the swastika falls in Berlin. By August, Tokyo Bay surrenders. The victors meet, smile for photographers, and divide the world. Key sections include: COLD WAR; 1945 — 1991; THE BREAK; CONTAINMENT; THE YEAR EVERYTHING CHANGED; KOREA — THE FIRST HOT WAR; WARSAW PACT; CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS; VIETNAM — THE LONG DEFEAT; MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION.

Outline:
1. COLD WAR
2. 1945 — 1991
3. THE BREAK
4. CONTAINMENT
5. THE YEAR EVERYTHING CHANGED
6. KOREA — THE FIRST HOT WAR
7. WARSAW PACT
8. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
9. VIETNAM — THE LONG DEFEAT
10. MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
11. THE OTHER WAR
12. THE WALL FALLS
13. WHAT IT TAUGHT US
14. FURTHER ORDERS

### Industrial Revolution — Steam, Steel, Smoke
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-industrial-revolution
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-industrial-revolution/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, industrial, revolution

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Outline:
1. Industrial Revolution Steam · Steel · Smoke
2. Why Britain, Why Then
3. Textiles First
4. The Engine Comes of Age
5. The Black Country
6. Canals, Rails, Iron Hulls
7. Discipline of the Clock
8. Children, Hours, Reform
9. Britain → The World
10. Electricity, Chemicals, Wires & Engines
11. Smoke & Bread
12. Every Modern Problem & Possibility
13. References & the Reel

### Medievalia / Europe 500-1500
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-medieval-europe
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-medieval-europe/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, medieval, europe

Medievalia EUROPE · 500 – 1500 Key sections include: Medievalia; The Fall of Rome & What Came After; The “Dark Ages” Reconsidered; Feudalism & the Manor; The Church; The Crusades, 1095–1291; Cathedral Building; The Birth of the University; The Black Death, 1347–1351; The Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1453.

Outline:
1. Medievalia
2. The Fall of Rome & What Came After
3. The “Dark Ages” Reconsidered
4. Feudalism & the Manor
5. The Church
6. The Crusades, 1095–1291
7. Cathedral Building
8. The Birth of the University
9. The Black Death, 1347–1351
10. The Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1453
11. Late Medieval & the Threshold of the Modern
12. Why "Medieval" Was Richer Than the Cliché
13. Further Reading & Viewing

### The Renaissance — An Illuminated Codex
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-renaissance
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-renaissance/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, renaissance

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Outline:
1. The Renaissance Florence and beyond · c.1400–1600
2. A Continent Reborn from Ashes
3. F lorence & the House of Medici
4. B runelleschi’s Impossible Dome
5. T he Early Masters
6. L eonardo da Vinci
7. M ichelangelo Buonarroti
8. R aphael & the School of Athens
9. B eyond the Alps
10. T he Quiet Revolutions
11. O f Princes and Courtiers
12. T he Closing of the Page
13. F inis — What Endures

### Roma — Imperium
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-roman-empire
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-roman-empire/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, roman, empire

ROMA Imperium ❖ S P Q R Senātus Populusque Rōmānus — The Senate and People of Rome A thousand years, in thirteen acts. 753 BC — 476 AD. Key sections include: ROMA; The She-Wolf and the Twins; The Republic is Born; Rome vs. Carthage; Gaius Julius Caesar; Augustus & the Principate; Greatest Extent; The Engineers' Empire; The Crisis of the Third Century; Reform, Faith, a New Capital.

Outline:
1. ROMA
2. The She-Wolf and the Twins
3. The Republic is Born
4. Rome vs. Carthage
5. Gaius Julius Caesar
6. Augustus & the Principate
7. Greatest Extent
8. The Engineers' Empire
9. The Crisis of the Third Century
10. Reform, Faith, a New Capital
11. Sack & Deposition
12. What Rome Left Behind
13. Further Reading & Watching

### The Silk Road — Caravans across Eurasia
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-silk-road
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-silk-road/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, silk, road

N The Silk Road Caravans across Eurasia ~ 200 BC · 1450 AD A history in thirteen panels I. Origins — A Han Envoy Heads West In 138 BC , Emperor Wu of the Han dispatched the diplomat Zhang Qian to find allies against the Xiongnu. He was captured for a decade, escaped, and returned with reports of vast civilizations beyond the Pamirs — Bactria, Parthia, Ferghana. Key sections include: The Silk Road; I. Origins — A Han Envoy Heads West; II. Not One Road — A Network; III. The Traders; IV. Goods, Both Ways; V. The Bigger Trade — Ideas; VI. The Tang Apogee (618 – 907); VII. The Mongol Pax (1206 – 1368); VIII. The Plague Rides West (~1346); IX. The Maritime Silk Road.

Outline:
1. The Silk Road
2. I. Origins — A Han Envoy Heads West
3. II. Not One Road — A Network
4. III. The Traders
5. IV. Goods, Both Ways
6. V. The Bigger Trade — Ideas
7. VI. The Tang Apogee (618 – 907)
8. VII. The Mongol Pax (1206 – 1368)
9. VIII. The Plague Rides West (~1346)
10. IX. The Maritime Silk Road
11. X. Decline of the Overland Routes
12. XI. Modern Echoes
13. XII. Further Reading & Watching

### WORLD WAR II / 1939-1945 — Broadsheet Edition
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-world-war-ii
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-world-war-ii/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: catalog, history, world, war

Causes · Course · Consequences Key sections include: World War II 1939 — 1945; The Powder Keg Twenty Years Of Unfinished Business; Germany Invades Poland Britain & France Honour Their Pledge; France Falls; Britain Stands Alone The Battle Of Britain Decides The Skies; Barbarossa & Pearl Harbor In Six Months, A European War Becomes A World War; Tide Turns At Midway Four Japanese Carriers Lost In Five Minutes; Stalingrad: The Hinge The Largest, Deadliest Theater Of The War; Arsenal Of Democracy American Production Decides The War; The Holocaust Industrialised Murder At The Heart Of Europe; D-Day — The Longest Day 156,000 Allied Troops Land On Five Beaches.

Outline:
1. World War II 1939 — 1945
2. The Powder Keg Twenty Years Of Unfinished Business
3. Germany Invades Poland Britain & France Honour Their Pledge
4. France Falls; Britain Stands Alone The Battle Of Britain Decides The Skies
5. Barbarossa & Pearl Harbor In Six Months, A European War Becomes A World War
6. Tide Turns At Midway Four Japanese Carriers Lost In Five Minutes
7. Stalingrad: The Hinge The Largest, Deadliest Theater Of The War
8. Arsenal Of Democracy American Production Decides The War
9. The Holocaust Industrialised Murder At The Heart Of Europe
10. D-Day — The Longest Day 156,000 Allied Troops Land On Five Beaches
11. Victory In Europe — And In The Pacific Berlin Falls; The Atomic Age Opens
12. A New World Order Out Of Ruin: The UN, The Cold War, Decolonization
13. — 30 — Sources, Further Reading, And Newsreel Footage