CHAPTER ONE
             THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

1.1Meaning of Prehistory and History 

1.2 The Discipline of History

1.3 The Evolution of Human Beings 

1.4 Theories of Human Evolution

1.5 Africa and Human Evolution

1.6 The Stone Age

1.7 The Emergence of States

Review Exercise On Chapter One

CHAPTER TWO
              Ancient World Civilizations up to c. 500 AD

2.1 Ancient Civilizations of Africa

2.2 Civilizations in Asia .

2.3 Ancient Civilization of Latin America

2.4 Civilizations in Europe

2.5 Rise and spread of Christianity

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CHAPTER THREE
             Peoples and States in Ethiopia and the Horn to
            the end of 13th C

3.1 Languages, Religions and Peoples of Ethiopia and the Horn .

3.2 Pre-Aksumite States and their Geographical Setting

3.3 Aksumite Kingdom

3.4 Zagwe Dynasty

3.5 The Sultanate Shewa

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CHAPTER FOUR
             The Middle Ages and Early Modern World,
             C. 500 to 1750s

4.1 The Middle Ages in Europe

4.2 The Middle Ages in Asia 

4.3 Development of Early Capitalism

4.4 The Age of Explorations and Discoveries

4.5 The Renaissance

4.6 The Reformation

4.7 Industrial Revolution

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CHAPTER FIVE
            Peoples and States of Africa to 1500

5.1 Languages and Peoples of Africa

5.2 States in North Africa

5.3 Spread of Islam and its Impact in West Africa

5.4 States in Western Africa

5.5 Equatorial, Central and Eastern Africa

5.6 Southern Africa

5.7 Africa’s Intra and Inter-continental Relations

5.8 Trans-Saharan trade

5.9 Early Contacts with the Outside World

Review Exercise On Chapter Five

CHAPTER SIX
            Africa and the Outside World 1500- 1880s
            

6.1 Contact with the Outside World 

6.2 Slavery

6.3 The “Legitimate” Trade

6.4 The White Settlement in South Africa

6.5 European Explorers and Missionaries

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CHAPTER SEVEN
        States, Principalities, Population Movements &
 Interactions in Ethiopia 13th to Mid-16th C.

7.1 The “Solomonic” Dynasty & the Christian Kingdom, 13th -16th C

7.2 The Muslim Principalities

7.3 Relationship Between the Christian Kingdom
 and the Sultanate of Adal, 1520s to 1559

7.4 Political and socio-economic conditions of southern
and central states in Ethiopia

7.5 Population Movements, Expansion and Integration in Ethiopia

7.6 Gada System of the Oromo

7.7 Moggasa and Guddifacha

7.8 Egalitarian System of Governance

Review Exercise On Chapter Seven

CHAPTER EIGHT
          Political, Social and Economic Processes in Ethiopia
 Mid- 16th to Mid- 19thC
          

8.1 Peoples and states of the Eastern, Central, Southern and Western Regions

8.2 Gondarine Period 

8.3 The Zemene Mesafint (The Era of Warlords)

8.4 The Yejju Dynasty

8.5 The Kingdom of Shoa

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CHAPTER NINE
          The Age of Revolutions 1750s to 1815

9.1 Industrial Capitalism in Europe

9.2 French Revolution

9.3 Napoleonic Era

9.4 American War of Independence

9.5 The Congress of Vienna Glossary

Review Exercise On Chapter Nine