Types of History
This flow chart indicates some types/branches of History, these are inter-related in nature.
Following description of each type/branch is introductory in nature: –
- Economic: – it deals with all kinds of exchange took place. Markets, currencies, means of production and allied factors
- Places: – history of particular place i.e., city, fort, port or region
- Architecture: – different styles of construction and their course of development, synthesis of various architectural pattern
- Religious: – religious ideas, institutions, literature and its interaction with individual and society as a whole
- Social: – nature of human relations among themselves and their causes and effects
- Food: – development of different cuisines and their nature of cultural and regional variations
- Gender: – role of gender in various levels of human interaction
- Person: – role of a person in shaping course of History like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln
- Cultural: – analysis of different customs and traditions that are developed over the period of time at particular place or among specific section of Society
- Legal: – development of various laws and their causation
- Linguistics: – significance of language and its role in different aspects of human life
- Time Periods: – study of particular time periods in history like Bronze Age, Iron Age or digital age and Ancient, Medieval, or Modern
- Military: – understanding wars, development of various armaments, different battle plans or tactics, etc.
- Diplomacy: – history of diplomatic relations among States
- Environmental: – environment and its role in and on Human activity
- Medical: – History of Medicines, diseases, epidemics or pandemics and related things like our societal and administrative response to them
- Administrative: – administrative structures, their evolutions and modifications, and its nature of operations
- Archaeology: – study of history from material remains
- Technology: – role of technology in shaping course of history
- Political: – history of political ideologies and Institutions
- Art: – history of art forms like music, painting, dance, etc.
- Science: – history of scientific thought development, its causation and nature
- Intellectual: – history of ideas and thought processes
- Urban: – emergence of urban centers and their causes, effects and nature
- Clothing: – history of clothing its role, significance and nature