World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series) - Hardcover

Crofton, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857380753 ISBN 13: 9780857380753

Publisher: Greenfinch, 2011

Synopsis

World History

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Book Description:

An essential guide to the things that shaped our world.

From the Back Cover:

The beginnings of agriculture; The first cities; Egypt of the pharaohs; Classical Greece; Alexander the Great; The spread of Roman power; The fall of Rome and its aftermath; The rise of Islam; The Vikings; The Crusades; The Black Death; Precolonial India; Imperial China; The Mongols; Japan, the island empire; Incas and Aztecs; Empires and kingdoms of Africa; The Renaissance; The Ottoman Empire; The voyages of discovery; The Reformation; The Counter-Reformation; The English Revolution; The Scientific Revolution; The age of empire; The Enlightenment; The American Revolution; The French Revolution; The Napoleonic era; The Industrial Revolution; Nationalism in Europe; Slavery; The expansion of the USA; The American Civil War; The rise of socialism; Women's rights; The First World War; Lenin and Stalin; The shadow of Fascism; The Great Depression; The Second World War: Europe; The Second World War: Asia; The Holocaust; The Cold War; The end of empire; The Vietnam War; The Arab-Israeli conflict; The fall of communism; The resurgence of China; 9/11 and after.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenfinch
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857380753
• ISBN 13: 9780857380753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208