Fifty Things You Need to Know About World History
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Hugh Williams. Fifty Things You Need to Know About World History
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Contents
Introduction
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. The Building of the Via Egnatia 146 BC
CHAPTER 2. The City of Chang’an 750 AD
CHAPTER 3. The Travels of Marco Polo 1271–95
CHAPTER 4. The Black Death 1348–50
CHAPTER 5. The Foundation of the Dutch East India Company 1602
CHAPTER 6. The Invention of the Flying Shuttle 1733
CHAPTER 7. The Foundation of Oil City, Pennsylvania 1859
CHAPTER 8. The Treaty of Versailles 1919
CHAPTER 9. The Model T Ford 1908
CHAPTER 10. The Credit Crunch 2007
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Spartacus 73 BC
CHAPTER 2. The Burning of Jan Hus 1415
CHAPTER 3. The American Declaration of Independence 1776
CHAPTER 4. The French Revolution 1789
CHAPTER 5. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 1824
CHAPTER 6. The Zulu War 1879
CHAPTER 7. The Russian Revolution 1917
CHAPTER 8. Mao Zedong and the People’s Republic of China 1949
Plates 1
CHAPTER 9. The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989
CHAPTER 10. The Release of Nelson Mandela 1990
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh 2000 BC
CHAPTER 2. The Mahabharata 500–100 BC
CHAPTER 3. Plato 429–347 BC
CHAPTER 4. Buddha c.400 BC
CHAPTER 5. Confucius 551–479 BC
CHAPTER 6. The Crucifixion of Jesus 33 AD
CHAPTER 7. The Death of Mohammed 632 AD
CHAPTER 8. Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses 1517
CHAPTER 9. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species 1859
CHAPTER 10. 9/11 2001
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Ozymandias (Rameses II) 1279–C.1213 BC
Plates 2
CHAPTER 2. Alexander the Great 356–323 BC
CHAPTER 3. The Sack of Rome 410 AD
CHAPTER 4. The Coronation of Charlemagne 800 AD
CHAPTER 5. Chinggis Khan Becomes Sole Ruler of the Mongol People 1206
CHAPTER 6. The Fall of Constantinople 1453
CHAPTER 7. The Conquest of Mexico 1521
CHAPTER 8. The Exile of Napoleon Bonaparte to St Helena 1815
CHAPTER 9. The Indian Mutiny 1857
CHAPTER 10. Hiroshima 1945
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Archimedes of Syracuse 287–212 BC
CHAPTER 2. The Chinese Invention of Printing seventh century AD
CHAPTER 3. Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519
CHAPTER 4. Vasco da Gama Discovers a Sea Route to India 1498
CHAPTER 5. Sir Isaac Newton Publishes the Principia 1687
CHAPTER 6. Australia’s First Colony 1788
CHAPTER 7. John Logie Baird Demonstrates the First Moving Television Images 1926
CHAPTER 8. The Discovery of the Structure of the DNA Helix 1953
CHAPTER 9. Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon 1969
CHAPTER 10. The Creation of the Worldwide Web 1990
Index
Acknowledgements
ALSO BY HUGH WILLIAMS
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CHAPTER 5 Confucius 551–479 BC
CHAPTER 6 The Crucifixion of Jesus 33 AD
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