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Table of Contents

Timeline
Introduction and acknowledgements

Chapter

Pages

Famous Lives

The Chinese

10-33

Confucius, Cheng Ho (Zheng He), Mao Zedong

The Italians

34-68

Julius Caesar, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Benito Mussolini

The British

70-107

Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Francis Drake, Isaac Newton, Victoria, Winston Churchill

The Spanish

108-131

Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, (Charles V, Philip II)

The Portuguese

132-149

Henry the Navigator, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama

The Dutch

150-166

William of Orange, The 17 Gentlemen, Rembrandt van Rijn,
Admiral de Ruyter

The French

168-193

Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emile Zola, Marie Curie,
Charles de Gaulle

The Mongols

194-203

Genghis Khan

The Turks

204-217

Süleyman the Magnificent, Ataturk

The Vikings

218-231

Eric the Red, Leif Erikson

The Russians

232-251

Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Lenin

The Americans

252-299

Pocahontas, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman,
Crazy Horse, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin L. King

Bibliography

301-304

Index

305-309

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