Introduction

Prehistory the classical age (2.5 MYA - 500 CE)

The first cities

Land of the pyramids

Rule by the pople

Powerful Persia

The birth of China

Murder in Rome.

Medieval times (500 CE - 1350)

Abandoned cities

Attack on Lindisfarne

Islamic world

Tough times in Europe

Changes in China

Samurai wars.

Greater horizons (1350 - 1850)

African riches

Babur the tiger

Inspired by the past

The fall of Constantiniple

Settling in a new continent

Improving industry.

Birth of the modern world (1850-1950)

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Scramble for Africa

A world at war

Revolution in Russia

The terrible thirties

All-out war... again

Glossary.