People often complain that in history lessons at school they were
taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and
how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To
remedy this, World History: 50 Key Milestones You Really Need to
Know offers brief and stimulating outlines of key developments in
the history of the world, from the beginning of agriculture 10,000
years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. Ian Crofton,
the author of several books of popular history including The Kings
and Queens of England, Traitors and Turncoats and History Without
the Boring Bits, brings his lively style to bear in a series of
essays ranging from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Vikings
and the Mongols to the French Revolution and the Cold War. Each
essay is accompanied by a detailed time line of dates and events,
and the flavour of the period concerned is brought to life by
selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as
Aristotle, Ashoka, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther,
Suleiman the Magnificent, Galileo, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and Winston Churchill. In
addition, box features throw light on a range of related topics,
from the Nazca Lines to Renaissance man, from Confucianism and the
state to Alexander the Great's horse, from Islamic science and the
Barbary corsairs to the Enigma code and the atomic bomb.
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