Hunters and gatherers (to 4000 BC)
Plant growers and herdsmen (4000-3000 BC)
Cattle breeders and sun-kings (3000-1100 BC)
Farmers and tribesmen (1100 BC-250 AD)
Courts and armies (250-700)
Lords and sea-kings (700-950)
Kingdom builders (950-1050)
Christian modernizers (1050-1200)
A nation in flux (1200-1536)
Towards recent times (1536-1660)
Crisis and recovery (1660-1800)
A place in Europe (1800-1864)
Industrial society (1864-1950)
Modernization (1950-2000)