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Contents
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
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