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Contents
ОглавлениеCHAPTER 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
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 7 The Russian Revolution 1917
CHAPTER 8 Mao Zedong and the People’s Republic of China 1949
CHAPTER 9 The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989
CHAPTER 10 The Release of Nelson Mandela 1990
CHAPTER 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh 2000 BC
CHAPTER 2 The Mahabharata 500–100 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 1 Ozymandias (Rameses II) 1279–C.1213 BC
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 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 DNA Helix 1953
CHAPTER 9 Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon 1969
