TY - GEN AU - Sangeeth, Zac TI - World history in 3 point : to the point simmaries of everything that mattered SN - 9789391028374 U1 - 909 PY - 2022/// CY - Gurugram PB - Hachette Book Pub. India Pvt. Ltd. N1 - Contents My Story about History: A Note from the Author ix Ancient Civilizations and Events 1. The Prehistoric Period 2 2. The Egyptian Civilization 5 3. The Chinese Civilization 8 4. The Indus Valley Civilization 11 5. The Assyrians 13 6. The Babylonian Empire 16 7. The Mayan Civilization 19 8. The Vedic Civilization 21 9. The Ancient Greek Civilization 23 10. The Classical Age 25 11. The Rise of Rome 27 12. The Unification of China 30 13. The Opening of the Silk Road 32 Modern Periods and Events 14. The Fall of the Western Roman Empire 36 15. The Dark or Middle Ages 39 16. The Hindu Golden Age 41 17. The Plague of Justinian 44 18. The Chinese Golden Age 46 19. The Islamic Golden Age 48 20. The Magna Carta 51 21. The Black Death 53 22. The Fall of Constantinople 55 23. The Renaissance 58 24. The Colonial Era 61 25. The Discovery of the New World 64 26. The Landing of Vasco da Gama 67 27. The Reformation 69 28. The Enlightenment 71 29. The Industrial Revolution 73 30. The Abolitionist Movement 75 31. The Declaration of Sentiments 77 32. The Spanish Flu 79 33. The Great Depression 81 Warriors, Generals, Dynasties and Rulers 34. Hammurabi 84 35. The Shang Dynasty 86 36. Amenhotep III 88 37. Ramses II 90 38. The Zhou Dynasty 92 39. Cyrus II 94 40. Darius I 96 41. Alexander of Macedonia 98 42. The Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empire 101 43. The Mauryan Empire 104 44. Ashoka 107 45. The Han Dynasty 109 46. Julius Caesar 111 47. Augustus Caesar 114 48. The Kushan Empire 116 49. Charlemagne 118 50. Genghis Khan 120 51. The Mamluk Dynasty 122 52. Timur 124 53. Babur 126 54. Akbar 128 54. Elizabeth I 130 56. Napoleon Bonaparte 132 57. Catherine II 134 58. Victoria 136 59. The Ming Dynasty 138 Revolutions and Wars 60. Greco-Persian Wars 142 61. The Wars of the Diadochi 144 62. The Roman-Greek Wars 147 63. The Battle of Milvian Bridge 149 64. The Norman Conquest 152 65. The Crusades 154 66. The Hundred Years' War 156 67. The American Revolution 159 68. The French Revolution 162 69. The Battle of Waterloo 165 70. The First World War 167 71. The Russian Revolution 170 72. The Second World War 172 73. The Indian Independence Movement 175 74. The Cold War 178 75. The Chinese Cultural Revolution 181 76. The Iranian Revolution 183 Peacemakers and Warmongers 77. Abraham Lincoln 186 78. Mahatma Gandhi 188 79. Joseph Stalin 191 80. Adolf Hitler 193 81. Benito Mussolini 195 82. Martin Luther King Jr 197 83. Nelson Mandela 199 Philosophers and Thinkers 84. Pythagoras 202 85. Socrates 204 86. Plato 206 87. Aristotle 208 88. Epicurus 210 89. Rene Descartes 212 90. Immanuel Kant 214 91. Georg Hegel 216 92. Friedrich Nietzsche 218 Economists, Sociologists and Political Scientists 93. Sun Tzu 222 94. Chanakya 224 95. Niccolo Machiavelli 226 96. John Locke 228 97. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 230 98. Adam Smith 232 99. Jeremy Bentham 234 100. Karl Marx 236 101. Max Weber 238 Selected Bibliography 240 Acknowledgements 243 ER -