1945: The United States Drops the A-Bomb Chapter 24: Ten Essential Historical Documents The Rosetta Stone Confucian Analects The Bible The Quran The Magna Carta The Travels of Marco Polo The Declaration of Independence The Bill of Rights Das Kapital On the Origin of Species
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List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: The Fertile Crescent extended from the Persian Gulf through Iraq an...
2 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: The Indus Valley Civilization was in what is now India and Pakistan...FIGURE 4-2: The Greeks built independent city-states all over the Aegean and we...
3 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: The Roman Empire at its height under the Emperor Trajan. 117 AD. FIGURE 5-2: Qin Shihuangdi started linking defense works that became the Great ...
4 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Charlemagne’s empire as it was when he died in 814 AD.
5 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: The Blue Mosque in Istanbul boasts the distinctive Middle Eastern m...
6 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: The Mexican flag commemorates a legend about the Aztecs.
7 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: By 1900, the African map was a jigsaw puzzle of European conquests.
8 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: The Hindu god Skanda is often depicted atop a peacock clutching a ...
9 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: Socrates’ reputation as a philosopher rests mainly on what Plato w...FIGURE 11-2: A drawing of the marble lighthouse in the harbor of Alexandria by ...
10 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: Michelangelo’s David, a holy hunk. FIGURE 13-2: In his famous drawing Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci used geomet...
11 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: To be rid of wife Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII cut England’s ti...
12 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: Children often tended the machines of the Industrial Revolution.
13 Chapter 16FIGURE 16-1: Macedon’s phalanx was a marching hedgehog of muscular men, wood, a...
14 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: Front and side views of different stirrups, a technological innova...FIGURE 17-2: The matchlock added a fuse to ignite the gunpowder and free the so...FIGURE 17-3: With thick walls and a star-shaped design, the Renaissance fort wa...
15 Chapter 18FIGURE 18-1: Guerilla fighters such as Vietnam’s Viet Cong, South Vietnamese in...
16 Chapter 20FIGURE 20-1: Adolph Hitler started World War II in 1939 when he sent German tro...FIGURE 20-2: Joan of Arc led French troops to victory over the English in the H...
17 Chapter 21FIGURE 21-1: Marco Polo’s travels took him to places that include today’s Israe...
18 Chapter 22FIGURE 22-1: North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh discovered communism as a youn...
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