List of historical classifications
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Historical classification groups the various history topics into different categories according to subject matter as shown below.
Meta-history
By geographic region
By geographic subregion
- North America
- South America
- Latin America
- Central America
- Pre-Columbian
- Mesoamerica
- Caribbean
- Eurasia
- History of Europe
- Prehistoric Europe
- Classical antiquity
- Late Antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Early modern period
- Modern Europe
- Central Asia
- South Asia
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Middle East
- Ancient Near East
- Australasia (Australia, New Guinea, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia)
- Pacific Islands
By times
By general time period
See also Periodization.
By religion
By nation
By topic, miscellaneous
=Mathematics and the natural sciences=
=Social sciences=
By ideological classification (historiography)
Although there is arguably some intrinsic bias in history studies (with national bias perhaps being the most significant), history can also be studied from ideological perspectives, such as:
A type of historical speculation known commonly as counterfactual history has also been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different manner. This is somewhat similar to the alternate history genre of fiction.
Lists of false or dubious historical resources and historical myths that were once popular and widespread, or have become so, have also been prepared.
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