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Автор: Hugh Williams
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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Introduction

       1 Wealth

       Introduction

       CHAPTER 1 The Building of the Via Egnatia 146 BC

       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

       3 Religion

       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