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| Preface | |
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| Once Upon a Time | |
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| The past and memory | |
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| Before there were any people | |
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| Dragon-like creatures | |
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| Earth without life | |
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| Sun without earth | |
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| What is history? | |
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| The Greatest Inventors of All Time | |
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| The Heidelberg jaw | |
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| Neanderthal man | |
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| Prehistory | |
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| Fire | |
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| Tools | |
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| Cavemen | |
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| Language | |
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| Painting | |
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| Making magic | |
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| The Ice Age and the Early Stone Age | |
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| Pile dwellings | |
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| The Bronze Age | |
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| People like you and me | |
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| The Land by the Nile | |
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| King Menes | |
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| Egypt | |
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| A hymn to the Nile | |
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| Pharaohs | |
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| Pyramids | |
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| The religion of the ancient Egyptians | |
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| The Sphinx | |
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| Hieroglyphs | |
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| Papyrus | |
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| Revolution in the old kingdom | |
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| Akhenaton's reforms | |
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| Sunday, Monday | |
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| Mesopotamia today | |
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| The burial sites at Ur | |
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| Clay tablets and cuneiform script | |
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| Hamurabi's laws | |
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| Star worship | |
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| The origin of the days of the week | |
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| The Tower of Babel | |
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| Nebuchadnezzar | |
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| The One and Only God | |
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| Palestine | |
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| Abraham of Ur | |
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| The Flood | |
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| Moses' bondage in Egypt and the year of the departure from Egypt | |
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| Saul, David, Solomon | |
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| The division of the kingdom | |
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| The destruction of Israel | |
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| The prophets speak | |
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| The Babylonian Captivity | |
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| The Return | |
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| The Old Testament and faith in the Messiah | |
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| I C-A-N R-E-A-D | |
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| Writing with the alphabet | |
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| The Phoenicians and their trading posts | |
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| Heroes and their Weapons | |
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| The songs of Homer | |
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| Schliemann's excavations | |
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| Sea-raider kings | |
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| Crete and the labyrinth | |
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| The Dorian migration | |
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| The songs of the heroes | |
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| Greek tribes and their colonies | |
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| An Unequal Struggle | |
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| The Persians and their faith | |
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| Cyrus conquers Babylon | |
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| Cambyses in Egypt | |
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| Darius's empire | |
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| The Ionian revolt | |
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| The first Punitive Expedition | |
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| The second Punitive Expedition and the Battle of Marathon | |
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| Xerxes' campaign | |
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| Thermopylae | |
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| The Battle of Salamis | |
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| Two Small Cities in One Small Land | |
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| The Olympic Games | |
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| The Delphic Oracle | |
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| Sparta and Spartan education | |
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| Athens | |
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| Draco and Solon | |
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| The People's Assembly and tyrants | |
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| The time of Pericles | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| Sculpture and painting | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Theatre | |
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| The Enlightened One and his Land | |
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| India | |
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| Mohenjo-Daro, a city from the time of Ur | |
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| The Indian migrations | |
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| Indo-European languages | |
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| Castes | |
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| Brahma and the transmigration of souls | |
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| 'This is you' | |
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| Prince Gautama | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Release from sufffering | |
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| Nirvana | |
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| The followers of the Buddha | |
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| A Great Teacher of a Great People | |
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| China in the time before Christ | |
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| The emperor of China and the princes | |
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| The meaning of Chinese writing | |
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| Confucius | |
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| The importance of practices and customs | |
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| The family | |
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| Ruler and subject | |
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| Lao-tzu | |
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| The Tao | |
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| The Greatest Adventure of All | |
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| The Peloponnesian War | |
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| The Delphic War | |
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| Philip of Macedon | |
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| The Battle of Chaeronea | |
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| The decline of the Persian empire | |
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| Alexander the Great | |
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| The destruction of Thebes | |
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| Aristotle and his knowledge | |
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| Diogenes | |
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| The conquest of Asia Minor | |
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| The Gordion Knot | |
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| The Battle of Issus | |
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| The conquest of Tyre and the conquest of Egypt | |
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| Alexandria | |
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| The Battle of Gaugamela | |
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| The Indian expedition | |
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| Porus | |
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| Alexander, ruler of the Orient | |
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| Alexander's death and his successors | |
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| Hellenism | |
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| The library of Alexandria | |
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| New Wars and New Warriors | |
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| Italy | |
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| Rome and the myth of Rome's foundation | |
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| Class warfare | |
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| The twelve tablets of the law | |
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| The Roman character | |
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| Rome's capture by the Gauls | |
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| The conquest of Italy | |
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| Pyrrhus | |
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| Carthage | |
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| The First Punic War | |
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| Hannibal | |
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| Crossing the Alps | |
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| Quintus Fabius Maximus | |
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| Cannae | |
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| The last call to arms | |
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| Scipio's victory over Hannibal | |
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| The conquest of Greece | |
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| Cato | |
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| The destruction of Carthage | |
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| An Enemy of History | |
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| The Emperor Shih Huang-ti of Ch'in | |
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| The burning of the books | |
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| The princes of Ch'in and the naming of China | |
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| The Great Wall of China | |
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| The Han ruling family | |
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| Learned officials | |
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| Rulers of the Western World | |
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| Roman provinces | |
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| Roads and aqueducts | |
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| Legions | |
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| The two Gracchi | |
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| Bread and circuses | |
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| Marius | |
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| The Cimbri and the Teutones | |
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| Sulla | |
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| Gladiators | |
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| Julius Caesar | |
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| The Gallic Wars | |
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| Victory in the civil war | |
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| Cleopatra | |
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| The reform of the calendar | |
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| Caesar's murder | |
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| Augustus and the empire | |
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| The arts | |
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| The Good News | |
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| Jesus Christ | |
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| The teachings of the Apostle Paul | |
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| The Cross | |
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| Paul preaching to the Corinthians | |
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| The cult of the emperor | |
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| Nero | |
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| Rome burns | |
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| The first Christian persecutions | |
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| The catacombs | |
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| Titus destroys Jerusalem | |
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| The dispersal of the Jews | |
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| Life in the Empire and at its Frontiers | |
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| Tenements and villas | |
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| Therms | |
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| The Colosseum | |
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| The Germans | |
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| Arminius and the battle in Teutoburg forest | |
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| The Limes | |
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| Soldiers and their gods | |
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| Trajan's expeditions in Dacia | |
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| Marcus Aurelius's battles near Vienna | |
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| Warrior-emperors | |
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| The decline of Italy | |
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| The spread of Christianity | |
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| Diocletian's reforms | |
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| The last Christian persecution | |
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| Constantine | |
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| The founding of Constantinople | |
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| The division of the empire | |
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| Christianity becomes the religion of the state | |
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| The Storm | |
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| The Huns | |
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| The Visigoths | |
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| The Migrations | |
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| Attila | |
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| Leo the Great | |
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| Romulus Augustulus | |
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| Odoacer and the end of antiquity | |
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| The Ostrogoths and Theodoric | |
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| Ravenna | |
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| Justinian | |
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| The Pandects of Justinian and the Agia Sophia | |
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| The end of the Goths | |
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| The Lombards | |
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| The Starry Night Begins | |
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| 'The Dark Ages'? | |
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| Belief and superstition | |
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| Stylites | |
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| Benedictines | |
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| Preserving the inheritance of antiquity | |
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| The importance of the northern monasteries | |
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| Clovis's baptism | |
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| The role of the clergy in the Merovingian kingdom | |
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| Boniface | |
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| There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet | |
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| The Arabian desert | |
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| Mecca and the Kaaba | |
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| Muhammad's background and life | |
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| Persecution and flight | |
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| Medina | |
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| The battle with Mecca | |
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| The last sermon | |
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| The conquests of Palestine, Persia and Egypt | |
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| The burning of the Alexandrian library | |
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| The siege of Constantinople | |
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| The conquests of North Africa and Spain | |
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| The battles of Tours and Poitiers | |
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| Arab culture | |
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| Arabic numerals | |
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| A Conqueror who Knows How to Rule | |
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| The Merovingians and their stewards | |
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| The Kingdom of the Franks | |
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| Charlemagne's battles in Gaul, Italy and Spain | |
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| The Avars | |
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| Battles with the Saxons | |
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| The Heldenlieder | |
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| The crowning of the emperor | |
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| Harun al-Rashid's ambassadors | |
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| The division and decline of the Carolingian empire | |
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| Svatopluk | |
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| The Vikings | |
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| The kingdoms of the Normans | |
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| A Struggle to Become Lord of Christendom | |
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| East and West in Carolingian times | |
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| The blossoming of culture in China | |
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| The Magyar invasion | |
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| King Henry | |
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| Otto the Great | |
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| Austria and the Babenbergs | |
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| Feudalism and serfdom | |
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| Hugh Capet | |
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| The Danes in England | |
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| Religious appointments | |
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| The Investiture Controversy | |
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| Gregory VII and Henry IV | |
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| Canossa | |
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| Robert Guiscard and William the Conqueror | |
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| Chivalrous Knights | |
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| Horsemen and knights | |
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| Castles | |
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| Bondsmen | |
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| From noble youth to knight: page, squire, dubbing | |
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| A knight's duties | |
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| Minstrelsy | |
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| Tournaments | |
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| Chivalrous poetry | |
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| The Song of the Nibelungen | |
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| The First Crusade | |
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| Godfrey of Bouillon and the conquest of Jerusalem | |
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| The significance of the crusades | |
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| Emperors in the Age of Chivalry | |
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| Frederick Barbarossa | |
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| Barter and the money-based economy | |
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| Italian towns | |
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| The empire | |
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| The resistance and defeat of Milan | |
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| The dubbing feast at Mainz | |
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| The Third Crusade | |
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| Frederick II | |
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| Guelphs and Ghibellines | |
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| Innocent III | |
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| The Magna Carta | |
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| Sicily's rulers | |
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| The end of the Hohenstaufens | |
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| Ghengis Khan and the Mongol invasion | |
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| The lack of an emperor and 'fist-law' | |
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| The Kyffhauser legend | |
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| Rudolf of Habsburg | |
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| Victory over Otakar | |
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| The power of the House of Habsburg is established | |
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| Cities and Citizens | |
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| Markets and towns | |
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| Merchants and knights | |
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| Guilds | |
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| Building cathedrals | |
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| Mendicant friars and penitential priests | |
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| The persecution of Jews and heretics | |
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| The Babylonian Captivity of the popes | |
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| The Hundred Years War with England | |
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| Joan of Arc | |
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| Life at court | |
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| Universities | |
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| Charles IV and Rudolf the Founder | |
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| A New Age | |
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| The burghers of Florence | |
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| Humanism | |
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| The rebirth of antiquity | |
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| The flowering of art | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| The Medici | |
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| Renaissance popes | |
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| New ideas in Germany | |
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| The art of printing | |
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| Gunpowder | |
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| The downfall of Charles the Bold | |
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| Maximilian, the Last Knight | |
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| Mercenaries | |
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| Fighting in Italy | |
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| Maximilian and Durer | |
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| A New World | |
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| The compass | |
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| Spain and the conquest of Granada | |
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| Columbus and Isabella | |
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| The discovery of America | |
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| The modern era | |
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| Columbus's fate | |
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| The conquistadores | |
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| Hernando Cortez | |
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| Mexico | |
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| The fall of Montezuma | |
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| The Portuguese in India | |
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| A New Faith | |
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| The building of the Church of St Peter | |
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| Luther's theses | |
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| Luther's forerunner, Hus | |
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| The burning of the papal bull | |
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| Charles V and his empire | |
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| The sack of Rome | |
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| The Diet of Worms | |
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| Luther at the Wartburg | |
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| The translation of the Bible | |
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| Zwingli | |
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| Calvin | |
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| Henry VIII | |
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| Turkish conquests | |
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| The division of the empire | |
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| The Church at War | |
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| Ignatius of Loyola | |
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| The Council of Trent | |
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| The Counter-Reformation | |
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| The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre | |
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| Philip of Spain | |
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| The Battle of Lepanto | |
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| The revolt of the Low Countries | |
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| Elizabeth of England | |
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| Mary Stuart | |
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| The sinking of the Armada | |
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| English trading posts in America | |
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| The East India Companies | |
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| The beginnings of the British empire | |
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| Terrible Times | |
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| The Defenestration of Prague | |
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| The Thirty Years War | |
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| Gustavus Adolphus | |
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| Wallenstein | |
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| The Peace of Westphalia | |
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| The devastation of Germany | |
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| The persecution of witches | |
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| The birth of a scientific understanding of the world | |
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| Nature's laws | |
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| Galileo and his trial | |
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| An Unlucky King and a Lucky King | |
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| The Stuart king, Charles I | |
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| Cromwell and the Puritans | |
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| The rise of England | |
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| The year of the Glorious Revolution | |
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| France's prosperity | |
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| Richelieu's policies | |
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| Mazarin | |
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| Louis XIV | |
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| A king's lever | |
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| Versailles | |
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| Sources of the government's wealth | |
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| The peasants' misery | |
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| Predatory wars | |
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| Meanwhile, Looking Eastwards... | |
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| Turkish conquests | |
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| Insurrection in Hungary | |
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| The siege of Vienna | |
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| Jan Sobieski and the relief of Vienna | |
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| Prince Eugene | |
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| Ivan the Terrible | |
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| Peter the Great | |
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| The founding of St Petersburg | |
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| Charles XII of Sweden | |
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| The race to Stralsund | |
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| The expansion of Russian might | |
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| A Truly New Age | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Tolerance, reason and humanity | |
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| Critique of the Enlightenment | |
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| The rise of Prussia | |
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| Frederick the Great | |
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| Maria Theresa | |
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| The Prussian army | |
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| The Grand Coalition | |
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| The Seven Years War | |
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| Joseph II | |
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| The abolition of serfdom | |
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| Overhasty reforms | |
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| The American War of Independence | |
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| Benjamin Franklin | |
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| Human rights and negro slaves | |
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| A Very Violent Revolution | |
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| Catherine the Great | |
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| Louis XV and Louis XVI | |
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| Life at court | |
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| Justice and the landowning nobility | |
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| The Rococo | |
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| Marie Antoinette | |
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| The convocation of the Estates-General | |
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| The storming of the Bastille | |
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| The sovereignty of the people | |
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| The National Assembly | |
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| The Jacobins | |
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| The guillotine and the Revolutionary Tribunal | |
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| Danton | |
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| Robespierre | |
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| The Reign of Terror | |
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| The sentencing of the king | |
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| The foreigners defeated | |
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| Reason | |
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| The Directory | |
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| Neighbouring republics | |
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| The Last Conqueror | |
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| Napoleon in Corsica | |
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| To Paris | |
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| The siege of Toulon | |
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| The conquest of Italy | |
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| The Egyptian expedition | |
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| The coup d'etat | |
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| The consulate and the Code Napoleon | |
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| Emperor of the French | |
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| Victory at Austerlitz | |
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| The end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation | |
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| Francis I | |
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| The Continental System | |
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| Victory over Russia | |
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| Spain and the War of Spanish Resistance | |
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| Aspern and Wagram | |
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| The German uprising | |
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| The Grande Armee | |
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| The retreat from Moscow | |
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| The Battle of Leipzig | |
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| The Congress of Vienna | |
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| Napoleon's return from Elba | |
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| Waterloo | |
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| St Helena | |
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| Men and Machines | |
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| The Biedermeier era | |
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| Steam engines, steamships, locomotives, the telegraph | |
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| Spinning machines and mechanical looms | |
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| Coal and iron | |
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| Luddites | |
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| Socialist ideas | |
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| Marx and his theory of class war | |
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| Liberalism | |
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| The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 | |
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| Across the Seas | |
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| China before 1800 | |
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| The Opium war | |
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| The Taiping Rebellion | |
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| China's submission | |
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| Japan in 1850 | |
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| Revolution in support of the Mikado | |
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| Japan's modernisation with foreign assistance | |
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| America after 1776 | |
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| The slave states | |
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| The North | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Two New States in Europe | |
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| Europe after 1848 | |
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| The Emperor Franz Josef and Austria | |
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| The German Confederation | |
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| France under Napoleon III | |
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| Russia | |
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| Spain's decline | |
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| The liberation of the peoples of the Balkans | |
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| The fight for Constantinople | |
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| The kingdom of Sardinia | |
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| Cavour | |
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| Garibaldi | |
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| Bismarck | |
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| The reform of the army in defiance of the constitution | |
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| The Battle of Koniggratz | |
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| Sedan | |
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| The founding of the German empire | |
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| The Paris Commune | |
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| Bismarck's social reforms | |
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| Dismissal of the Iron Chancellor | |
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| Dividing Up the World | |
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| Industry | |
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| Markets and sources of raw materials | |
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| Britain and France | |
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| The Russo-Japanese War | |
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| Italy and Germany | |
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| The race to mobilize | |
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| Austria and the East | |
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| The outbreak of the First World War | |
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| New weapons | |
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| Revolution in Russia | |
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| The American intervention | |
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| The terms of peace | |
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| Scientific advance | |
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| End | |
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| The Small Part of the History of the World Which I Have Lived Through Myself: Looking Back | |
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| The growth of the world's population | |
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| The defeat of the central-European powers during the First World War | |
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| The incitement of the masses | |
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| The disappearance of tolerance from political life in Germany, Italy, Japan and Soviet Russia | |
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| Economic crisis and the outbreak of the Second World War | |
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| Propaganda and reality | |
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| The murder of the Jews | |
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| The atomic bomb | |
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| The blessings of science | |
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| The collapse of the Communist system | |
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| International aid efforts as a reason for hope | |