History — Tier 3 Family Indexes

Tier 3 of the History library hosts dense reference catalogs of named entities — dynasties, monarchies, battles, treaties — to support quick citation rather than narrative synthesis. The upper-tier surveys explain themes; Tier 3 lists rulers by regnal years.

Tier 1 status

The Tier 1 root History library index is published and links to five Tier 2 surveys:

• Ancient History
• Medieval History
• Early Modern History
• Modern History
• Historiography and Methods

Tier 2 status

Five Tier 2 surveys complete. Future Tier 2 expansions planned: Global Cold War, Industrial Revolution, World Wars, Decolonization, Environmental History, History of Science as standalone branches.

Tier 3 catalogs in this folder

• dynasties-and-monarchies-catalog — comprehensive catalog of ruling dynasties and royal houses across Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Rome, India, the Islamic Caliphates, Europe, Japan, Korea, the Americas, Africa, and Russia. Founder, peak, end date, key successors.
• wars-and-conflicts-catalog — major wars from the Peloponnesian War to ongoing conflicts in 2026 with dates, belligerents, causes, decisive engagements, outcomes, casualty estimates, and dominant historiographical readings.
• primary-source-and-historian-catalog — combined catalog of canonical primary sources (codes, treaties, documents), major historians from Herodotus to the present, historiographical schools (Rankean, Annales, Marxist, microhistory, subaltern, environmental), and principal archives (Vatican, TNA, NARA, BnF, BL, LOC, Hoover, Bundesarchiv).

Planned Tier 3 additions

• battles-and-sieges-catalog.md — Marathon, Gaugamela, Cannae, Tours, Hastings, Manzikert, Agincourt, Lepanto, Waterloo, Stalingrad, etc. with dates, combatants, outcomes.
• treaties-and-accords-catalog.md — discrete catalog focused on diplomatic accords (Westphalia, Utrecht, Vienna, Versailles, Yalta, Helsinki).
• revolutions-catalog.md — English 1640s, American 1776, French 1789, Haitian 1791, 1848, Russian 1917, Chinese 1911 + 1949, Arab Spring 2011.

Adjacent

• Philosophy — Tier 3 (philosophers contemporaneous with each dynasty)
• Religious Studies — Tier 3 (religions of each period)
• Linguistics — Tier 3 (administrative and liturgical languages)
• Anthropology — Tier 3 (archaeological substrates)
• Compendium root

Conventions

• Regnal dates in CE unless BCE marked; “r.” prefix optional for reigns.
• Dynasty endpoint = effective political end, not nominal claim.
• Tables organized by region, then chronologically.
• No emojis. Romanizations follow the most common scholarly convention (pinyin for Chinese, Hepburn for Japanese, McCune-Reischauer or Revised for Korean).