History

Basic Information

This page lists true historic events and other history-related subjects.
(It is not for mythological or controversial/hypothetical history, though alternative readings may appear in the pages themselves.)

Specific Historical Periods

• Stone Age
• Ancient World
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Rome
• Middle Ages
• Hundred Years' War
• Elizabethan Era
• Thirty Years War
• The Enlightenment
• Golden Age of Piracy
• American Revolution
• Spanish-American War
• World War I
• Roaring Twenties
• World War II

See Also

• Alternate History
• Beethoven and the Illuminati
• Coat of Arms
• Columbian Exchange
• Historical Fiction
• History of English
• Hollywood History
• Phantom Time Hypothesis
• Profession - links to lists of occupations broken out by era
• Theories of History
• Time Travel
• Traditional Medicine
• Written By the Winners
• List of centuries
• List of disasters

Game and Story Use

• Historic events can inspire analogous plot developments regardless of what setting is being used.
  • Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it…
• The more peculiar events are well suited for scenarios where the official reading is merely part of a cover-up to hide the supernatural, aliens, or the actions of some conspiratorial group.
• History has many turning points where the intervention of a time traveler could profoundly change the course of history. A party may be tasked with preventing or reversing such a change by an opposing faction, or possibly with causing one themselves.
  • In some cases, these two can be combined into a scenario where history as we know it is the result of a time travel intervention.