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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 | |