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Last updated by Cobblet (talk) 03:23, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

• Added History of medicine per discussion

People (136 articles)

Artists

1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Michelangelo
3. El Greco
4. Rembrandt
5. Hokusai
6. Claude Monet
7. Vincent van Gogh
8. Pablo Picasso
9. Salvador Dalí
10. Frida Kahlo

Writers

1. Homer
2. Sophocles
3. Virgil
4. Li Bai
5. Rumi
6. Dante Alighieri
7. William Shakespeare
8. Miguel de Cervantes
9. Edgar Allan Poe
10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. Leo Tolstoy
12. James Joyce
13. Virginia Woolf
14. Kahlil Gibran
15. Franz Kafka
16. Ernest Hemingway

Composers and musicians

1. Hildegard of Bingen
2. Johann Sebastian Bach
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Ludwig van Beethoven
5. Richard Wagner
6. Giuseppe Verdi
7. Frédéric Chopin
8. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
9. Duke Ellington
10. Ravi Shankar
11. Elvis Presley
12. The Beatles
13. Jimi Hendrix

Filmmakers

1. Sergei Eisenstein
2. Charlie Chaplin
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Walt Disney
5. Akira Kurosawa

Explorers

1. Leif Ericson
2. Marco Polo
3. Ibn Battuta
4. Zheng He
5. Christopher Columbus
6. Vasco da Gama
7. Ferdinand Magellan
8. James Cook
9. Roald Amundsen
10. Neil Armstrong

Inventors and scientists

1. Jābir ibn Hayyān
2. Shen Kuo
3. Nicolaus Copernicus
4. Galileo Galilei
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. Carl Linnaeus
7. Johannes Gutenberg
8. Antoine Lavoisier
9. Michael Faraday
10. Charles Darwin
11. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
12. Isaac Newton
13. James Clerk Maxwell
14. Thomas Edison
15. Nikola Tesla
16. Albert Einstein
17. Niels Bohr
18. Marie Curie
19. Dmitri Mendeleev
20. Werner Heisenberg
21. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Mathematicians

1. Pythagoras
2. Archimedes
3. Euclid
4. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
5. Gottfried Leibniz
6. Leonhard Euler
7. Pierre-Simon Laplace
8. Carl Friedrich Gauss
9. David Hilbert
10. Alan Turing

Philosophers and social scientists

1. Confucius
2. Herodotus
3. Plato
4. Aristotle
5. Nagarjuna
6. Avicenna
7. Thomas Aquinas
8. Ibn Khaldun
9. René Descartes
10. John Locke
11. Adam Smith
12. Immanuel Kant
13. Karl Marx
14. Mary Wollstonecraft
15. Friedrich Nietzsche
16. Sigmund Freud

Religious figures

1. Zoroaster
2. Abraham
3. Moses
4. Laozi
5. Gautama Buddha
6. Jesus
7. Paul the Apostle
8. Adi Shankara
9. Muhammad
10. Martin Luther

Politicians and leaders

1. Hammurabi
2. Hatshepsut
3. Ramesses II
4. Cyrus the Great
5. Pericles
6. Alexander the Great
7. Qin Shi Huang
8. Julius Caesar
9. Augustus
10. Charlemagne
11. Genghis Khan
12. Suleiman the Magnificent
13. Elizabeth I of England
14. Catherine the Great
15. George Washington
16. Napoleon
17. Simón Bolívar
18. Shaka
19. Abraham Lincoln
20. Mohandas Gandhi
21. Winston Churchill
22. Adolf Hitler
23. Joseph Stalin
24. Mao Zedong
25. Nelson Mandela

History (64 articles)

1. History
2. Civilization
3. Archaeology
4. History of Africa
5. History of Asia
   1. History of East Asia
   2. History of India
   3. History of the Middle East
6. History of Europe
7. History of North America
8. History of the world
9. History of South America

Prehistory to Middle Ages

1. Prehistory
2. Ancient history
3. Stone Age
   1. Mesopotamia
   2. Neolithic Revolution
   3. Sumer
4. Bronze Age
   1. Ancient Egypt
   2. Assyria
   3. Indus Valley Civilization
   4. Mesoamerica
5. Iron Age
   1. Ancient Greece
   2. Ancient Rome
   3. Achaemenid Empire
6. Middle Ages
   1. Black Death
   2. Byzantine Empire
   3. Crusades
   4. East–West Schism
   5. Holy Roman Empire
   6. Islamic Golden Age
   7. Mongol Empire
   8. Ottoman Empire
   9. Viking Age

Renaissance to present

1. Renaissance
2. Protestant Reformation
3. Age of Discovery
4. European colonization of the Americas
5. Scientific revolution
6. Age of Enlightenment
7. Industrial Revolution
8. French Revolution
9. Napoleonic Wars
10. Abolitionism
11. Scramble for Africa
12. British Empire
13. Russian Empire
14. Soviet Union
15. Women's suffrage
16. World War I
17. Great Depression
18. World War II
19. The Holocaust
20. Cold War
21. Arab–Israeli conflict
22. Islamism
23. Korean War
24. Civil rights movement
25. Cultural Revolution
26. Space exploration
27. Revolutions of 1989

Geography (84 articles)

1. Geography

Human geography

1. City
   1. Beijing
   2. Cairo
   3. Delhi
   4. Hong Kong
   5. Istanbul
   6. Jakarta
   7. Jerusalem
   8. London
   9. Mexico City
   10. Moscow
   11. Mumbai
   12. New York City
   13. Paris
   14. Rome
   15. São Paulo
   16. Singapore
   17. Tokyo
2. Country
   1. Australia
   2. Bangladesh
   3. Brazil
   4. Canada
   5. China
   6. Democratic Republic of the Congo
   7. Egypt
   8. France
   9. Germany
   10. India
   11. Indonesia
   12. Iran
   13. Italy
   14. Japan
   15. Mexico
   16. Nigeria
   17. Pakistan
   18. Philippines
   19. Russia
   20. South Africa
   21. Spain
   22. Turkey
   23. United Kingdom
   24. United States

Continents and regions

1. Continent
   1. Africa
   2. Antarctica
   3. Asia
   4. Europe
   5. Oceania
   6. North America
   7. South America
2. Arctic
3. Middle East

Hydrological features

1. Sea
   1. Arctic Ocean
   2. Atlantic Ocean
      1. Mediterranean Sea
   3. Indian Ocean
   4. Pacific Ocean
   5. Southern Ocean
2. Lake
   1. Caspian Sea
   2. Great Lakes
   3. Lake Baikal
   4. Lake Victoria
3. River
   1. Amazon River
   2. Mississippi River
   3. Nile
   4. Yangtze River
4. Great Barrier Reef

Terrestrial features

1. Land
2. Desert
   1. Sahara
3. Forest
4. Glacier
5. Grand Canyon
6. Mountain
   1. Alps
   2. Andes
   3. Himalayas
      1. Mount Everest
   4. Rocky Mountains

Arts and culture (56 articles)

1. History of art
2. Aesthetics
3. Library
4. Museum
5. The arts

Artistic movements

1. Gothic art
2. Baroque
3. Romanticism
4. Modernism
5. Postmodernism
6. Popular culture

Architecture

1. Architecture
   1. Angkor Wat
   2. Colosseum
   3. Great Pyramid of Giza
   4. Great Wall of China
   5. Machu Picchu
   6. Parthenon
   7. Stonehenge
   8. Taj Mahal

Literature

1. Literature
2. Book
3. Fiction
4. Poetry
5. Prose
6. Novel
7. Short story

   Works

   1. Don Quixote
   2. Epic of Gilgamesh
   3. Mahabharata
   4. Shahnameh

Music

1. Music
2. Musical instrument
3. Singing

   Genres

   1. Classical music
   2. Folk music
   3. Hip hop music
   4. Jazz
   5. Pop music
   6. Rock music

Performing arts

1. Performing arts
2. Dance
3. Film
4. Opera
5. Orchestra
6. Theatre
   1. Comedy
   2. Tragedy
   3. Musical theatre

Visual arts

1. Visual arts
2. Drawing
3. Painting
   1. Mona Lisa
4. Photography
5. Pottery
6. Sculpture

Philosophy and religion (65 articles)

Philosophy

1. Philosophy

   Philosophical branches

   1. Ethics
      1. Golden Rule
      2. Good and evil
   2. Epistemology
      1. Belief
      2. Knowledge
      3. Reason
      4. Truth
   3. Logic
   4. Metaphysics
      1. Existence
      2. Ontology
      3. Free will

   Philosophy by region and period

   1. Western philosophy
      1. Ancient Greek philosophy
      2. Medieval philosophy
      3. Contemporary philosophy
   2. Eastern philosophy
      1. Confucianism

   Philosophical movements

   1. Pragmatism
   2. Analytic philosophy

Religion

1. Religion
2. Afterlife
3. Deity
   1. Atheism
   2. Theism
   3. God
   4. Goddess
4. Gnosticism
5. Mythology
6. Mysticism
7. Shamanism
8. Soul
9. Spirituality
10. Meditation
11. Prayer
12. Worship

Specific religions

1. Bahá'í Faith
2. Buddhism
   1. Mahayana
   2. Theravada
   3. Vajrayana
3. Christianity
   1. Bible
   2. Catholic Church
   3. Eastern Orthodox Church
   4. Protestantism
4. Hinduism
   1. Vedas
   2. Upanishads
   3. Bhagavad Gita
5. Islam
   1. Five Pillars of Islam
   2. Shia Islam
   3. Sunni Islam
   4. Quran
6. Jainism
7. Judaism
   1. Tanakh
   2. Talmud
8. Shinto
9. Sikhism
   1. Guru Granth Sahib
10. Taoism

Everyday life (86 articles)

1. Clothing
2. Cooking
3. Color
4. Emotion
   1. Anger
   2. Fear
   3. Love
   4. Happiness
5. Ethnic group
6. Family
   1. Adult
   2. Child
   3. Infant
   4. Marriage
7. Gender
   1. Man
   2. Woman
8. Job (role)
9. Mind
   1. Consciousness
   2. Thought
10. Personal life
11. Human sexuality
    1. Sexual orientation
12. Sleep
    1. Dream

Food and drink

1. Food
   1. Bread
   2. Cereal
   3. Cheese
   4. Egg
   5. Fruit
   6. Maize
   7. Meat
   8. Nut
   9. Potato
   10. Rice
   11. Soybean
   12. Spice
   13. Vegetable
   14. Wheat

   Drink

   1. Beer
   2. Coffee
   3. Drinking water
   4. Milk
   5. Tea
   6. Wine

Language

1. Language

   Specific languages

   1. Arabic language
   2. Bengali language
   3. Chinese language
   4. English language
   5. French language
   6. German language
   7. Greek language
   8. Hindustani language
   9. Japanese language
   10. Latin
   11. Portuguese language
   12. Russian language
   13. Spanish language
2. Indo-European languages
3. Personal name
4. Writing
   1. Alphabet
   2. Arabic alphabet
   3. Brahmic scripts
   4. Chinese character
   5. Cyrillic alphabet
   6. Latin script
   7. Greek alphabet
5. Grammar
6. Word

Recreation and entertainment

1. Entertainment
2. Recreation
3. Game
   1. Board game
   2. Card game
   3. Video game
4. Gambling
5. Physical exercise
6. Sport
   1. Association football
   2. Olympics
   3. Athletics (sport)
7. Toy

Society and social sciences (97 articles)

1. Society
2. Communication
3. Community
4. Culture

Social issues

1. Abortion
2. Civil liberties
3. Discrimination
   1. Racism
   2. Sexism
4. Education
5. Environmentalism
6. Feminism
7. Freedom
   1. Slavery
8. Globalization
9. Human rights
10. Humanitarianism
11. Indigenous peoples
12. Law
    1. Capital punishment
    2. Constitution
    3. Crime
    4. Justice
    5. Police
    6. Property
13. Peace
    1. Terrorism
    2. War
14. Pollution
15. Poverty
16. Privacy
17. Suicide

Business and economics

1. Business
   1. Corporation
   2. Finance
   3. Management
   4. Tax
2. Economics
   1. Employment
   2. Macroeconomics
   3. Microeconomics
   4. Supply and demand
   5. Trade
3. Industry
   1. Agriculture
      1. Animal husbandry
      2. Domestication
      3. History of agriculture
   2. Construction
   3. Factory
   4. Fishing industry
   5. Hunting
   6. Manufacturing
   7. Mining
   8. Retail
4. Money
   1. Bank
   2. Currency

Media

1. Advertising
2. Broadcasting
3. Journalism
4. Magazine
5. Mass media
6. News
7. Newspaper
8. Publishing

Politics and government

1. Politics
   1. Colonialism
   2. Conservatism
   3. Imperialism
   4. Liberalism
   5. Nationalism
2. Government
   1. Anarchism
   2. Capitalism
   3. Communism
   4. Democracy
   5. Dictatorship
   6. Fascism
   7. Monarchy
   8. Socialism
   9. Theocracy
3. State
   1. Diplomacy
   2. Military

   International organizations

   1. European Union
   2. International Monetary Fund
   3. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
   4. NATO
   5. United Nations
   6. World Health Organization
   7. World Trade Organization

Social sciences

1. Social science
   1. Anthropology
   2. Political science
   3. Psychology
   4. Sociology

Health and medicine (41 articles)

Illness

1. Allergy
2. Alzheimer's disease
3. Asthma
4. Autoimmune disease
5. Cancer
6. Common cold
7. Diabetes mellitus
8. Disease
9. Gastroenteritis
10. Influenza
11. Heart attack
12. Hypertension
13. Malaria
14. Meningitis
15. Mental disorder
    1. Autism
    2. Schizophrenia
16. Pneumonia
17. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. HIV/AIDS
18. Smallpox
19. Trauma (medicine)
    1. Burn
20. Stroke
21. Tuberculosis

Health and fitness

1. Ageing
2. Drug
   1. Addiction
   2. Alcoholism
   3. Smoking
3. Medicine
   1. History of medicine
   2. Dentistry
4. Health
5. Nutrition
6. Obesity
7. Sanitation

Pharmaceuticals

1. Antibiotic
2. Birth control
3. Pharmaceutical drug
4. Vaccine

Science (190 articles)

1. Science
2. History of science
3. Nature
4. Philosophy of science
5. Scientific method

Astronomy

1. Astronomy
2. Asteroid
3. Big Bang
4. Black hole
5. Comet
6. Galaxy
   1. Milky Way
7. Natural satellite
8. Orbit
9. Outer space
10. Physical cosmology
11. Planet
12. Solar System
    1. Sun
    2. Mercury
    3. Venus
    4. Earth
       1. Moon
    5. Mars
    6. Jupiter
    7. Saturn
    8. Uranus
    9. Neptune
13. Star
14. Supernova
15. Universe

Biology

1. Biology
2. Life
   1. Death
   2. Extinction
3. Abiogenesis
4. Anatomy
   1. Nervous system
      1. Brain
   2. Gastrointestinal tract
   3. Circulatory system
      1. Blood
      2. Heart
   4. Eye
   5. Immune system
   6. Liver
   7. Lung
   8. Muscle
   9. Skin
   10. Skeleton
5. Reproduction
   1. Female
   2. Male
   3. Pregnancy
   4. Sex
6. Botany
7. Cell
8. Ecology
   1. Ecosystem
9. Evolution
   1. Natural selection
10. Genetics
    1. DNA
    2. Gene
    3. Heredity
    4. RNA
11. Organism
    1. Animal
       1. Amphibian
       2. Bird
       3. Dinosaur
       4. Fish
       5. Insect
       6. Mammal
          1. Human
             1. Human body
          2. Dog
          3. Horse
       7. Reptile
    2. Archaea
    3. Bacteria
    4. Eukaryote
    5. Fungus
    6. Plant
       1. Flower
       2. Seed
       3. Tree
    7. Algae
12. Photosynthesis
13. Species
14. Virus
15. Zoology

Chemistry

1. Chemistry
   1. Biochemistry
   2. Inorganic chemistry
   3. Organic chemistry
   4. Physical chemistry
2. Acid
3. Alloy
   1. Bronze
   2. Steel
4. Atom
5. Base
6. Catalysis
7. Chemical bond
8. Chemical compound
   1. Carbon dioxide
   2. Salt
   3. Water
9. Chemical element
   1. Aluminium
   2. Carbon
   3. Copper
   4. Gold
   5. Hydrogen
   6. Iron
   7. Nitrogen
   8. Oxygen
   9. Silicon
   10. Silver
10. Chemical reaction
11. Electrolysis
12. Ion
13. Metal
14. Mineral
15. Molecule
16. Periodic table

Earth science

1. Earth science
2. History of the Earth
3. Geology
   1. Earthquake
   2. Erosion
   3. Plate tectonics
   4. Rock
   5. Structure of the Earth
   6. Volcano
4. Climate
   1. Atmosphere of Earth
   2. Cloud
   3. Flood
   4. Global warming
   5. Rain
   6. Season
   7. Tornado
   8. Tropical cyclone
   9. Weather
   10. Wind
5. Map
6. Soil

Physics

1. Physics
2. Particle physics
   1. Standard Model
   2. Subatomic particle
      1. Electron
      2. Neutrino
      3. Neutron
      4. Photon
      5. Proton
3. Classical mechanics
   1. Newton's laws of motion
4. Energy
5. Force
   1. Electromagnetism
   2. Gravitation
   3. Strong interaction
   4. Weak interaction
6. Heat
   1. Temperature
7. Light
   1. Electromagnetic radiation
   2. Optics
   3. Speed of light
8. Magnet
9. Mass
10. Matter
    1. State of matter
11. Measurement
    1. Imperial and US customary measurement systems
    2. Metric system
12. Momentum
13. Motion
14. Quantum mechanics
15. Sound
16. Space
17. Thermodynamics
18. Theory of relativity
19. Time
    1. Day
    2. Year
20. Vacuum

Technology (109 articles)

1. Technology
2. History of technology
3. Engineering
4. Artificial intelligence
5. Biotechnology
6. Genetic engineering
7. Nuclear technology
8. Tool

Energy

1. Electricity
2. Fossil fuel
   1. Petroleum
3. Hydropower
4. Nuclear power
5. Renewable energy
6. Solar energy
7. Wind power

Electronics

1. Electronics
2. Battery
3. Incandescent light bulb
4. Integrated circuit
5. Semiconductor device
6. Transistor

Mechanical and structural engineering

1. Mechanical engineering
2. Engine
   1. Electric motor
   2. Internal combustion engine
   3. Jet engine
   4. Steam engine
3. Robot
4. Simple machine
5. Wheel
6. Arch
7. Bridge
8. Canal
9. Dam
10. House
11. Infrastructure
12. Road
13. Tower

Transportation

1. Transport
2. Aircraft
3. Automobile
4. Bicycle
5. Rail transport
6. Ship

Computing and Information Technology

1. Computing
2. Abacus
3. Calculator
4. Computer
5. Cryptography

Optical

1. Camera
2. Laser
3. Lens
4. Microscope
5. Telescope

Media and communication

1. Internet
2. Mail
3. Mobile phone
4. Printing
5. Radio
6. Telecommunication
7. Telephone
8. Television
9. Video
10. World Wide Web

Navigation and timekeeping

1. Navigation
2. Calendar
3. Clock
4. Compass
5. Global Positioning System
6. Gyroscope
7. Pendulum
8. Radar
9. Sundial

Weapons

1. Weapon
2. Artillery
3. Bow and arrow
4. Firearm
5. Knife
6. Nuclear weapon
7. Sword
8. Submarine
9. Tank

Material and chemical

1. Candle
2. Fire
3. Explosive material
4. Gasoline
5. Glass
6. Gunpowder
7. Masonry
8. Metallurgy
9. Paper
10. Plastic
11. Rubber
12. Textile
13. Wood

Food and health

1. Fertilizer
2. Hospital
3. Pasteurization
4. Refrigeration
5. Stove
6. Medical imaging
7. Anesthesia

Space

1. Moon landing
2. Rocket
3. Satellite
   1. Hubble Space Telescope
4. Spaceflight
5. International Space Station

Mathematics (60 articles)

1. Mathematics
2. History of mathematics
3. Algebra
   1. Equation
   2. Variable
4. Algorithm
5. Arithmetic
   1. Addition
   2. Subtraction
   3. Multiplication
   4. Division
   5. Fraction
   6. Exponentiation
   7. Logarithm
   8. nth root
6. Combinatorics
7. Game theory
8. Geometry
   1. Angle
      1. Trigonometry
   2. Area
   3. Coordinate system
   4. Dimension
   5. Line
   6. Plane
   7. Point
   8. Shape
      1. Circle
      2. Conic section
      3. Polygon
      4. Polyhedron
      5. Sphere
      6. Triangle
   9. Volume

1. Mathematical analysis
   1. Calculus
   2. Function
   3. Infinity
   4. Limit
2. Mathematical optimization
3. Mathematical proof
4. Number
   1. Complex number
   2. Mathematical constant
      1. 0
      2. e
      3. Golden ratio
      4. Pi
   3. Numerical digit
   4. Integer
      1. Natural number
         1. Prime number
   5. Number theory
   6. Real number
      1. Rational number
5. Probability
6. Series
7. Set
8. Statistics
9. Topology

See also

• Wikipedia:Core culture and society topics
• Wikipedia:Core math, science and technology topics
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies
• Wikipedia:1,000 core topics (currently inactive)

External links

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