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Human origins, 200,000 years ago-3500 BCE : At least as important as Columbus's journey to America or the Apollo 11 expedition : The first humans arrive in Australia ; Everything was so beautiful, so fresh : Cave painting at Altamira ; The foundations of today's Europe were forged in the events of the late Ice Age : The big freeze ; A great civilization on the Anatolian plain : The settlement at -- Ancient civilizations, 6000 BCE-500 CE : To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land : The Law Code of Hammurabi ; All the lands have fallen prostrate beneath his sandals for eternity : The temples of Abu Simbel ; Attachment is the root of suffering : Siddartha Gautama preaches Buddhism ; A clue to the existence of a system of picture-writing in the Greek lands : The palace at Knossos ; In times of peace, sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who bury their sons : The Persian Wars ; Administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few : Athenian democracy ; There is nothing impossible to he who will try : The conquests of Alexander the Great ; If the Qin should ever get his way with the world, then the whole world will end up his prisoner The first emperor unifies China ; Thus perish all tyrants : The assassination of Julius Caesar ; By this sign conquer : The Battle of Milvian Bridge ; The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken : The sack of Rome -- The medieval world, 500-1492 : Seek to enlarge the empire and make it more glorious : Belisarius retakes Rome ; Truth has come and falsehood has vanished : Muhammad receives the divine revelation ; A leader in whose shadow the Christian nation is at peace : The crowning of Charlemagne ; The ruler is wealthy but the state is destroyed : The An Lushan revolt ; A surge in spirit and awakening in intelligence : The founding of Baghdad ; Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain : The VIking raid on Lindisfarne ; The Roman church has never erred : The Investiture Controversy ; A man destined to become master of the state : Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Shogun ; That men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions : The signing of the Magna Carta ; The most potent man, as regards forces and lands and treasure, that exists in the world : Kublai Khan conquers the Song ; Those who until now have been mercenaries for a few coins achieve eternal rewards : The fall of Jerusalem ; The work of giants : The construction of Angkor Wat ; He left no court emir nor royal office holder without the gift of a load of gold : Mansa Musa's hajj to Mecca ; Give the sun the blood of enemies to drink : The foundation of Tenochtitlan ; Scarce the tenth person of any sort was left alive : The outbreak of the Black Death in Europe ; I have worked to discharge heaven's will : Hongwu founds the Ming dynasty ; Cast down the adversaries of my Christian people : The fall of Granada ; I have newly devised 28 letters : King Sejong introduces a new script -- The early modern era, 1420-1795 : As my city falls, I shall fall with it : The fall of Constantinople ; Following the light of the sun we left the Old World : Christopher Columbus reaches America ; This line shall be considered as a perpetual mark and bound : The Treaty of Tordesillas ; The ancients never raised their buildings so high : The beginnings of the Italian Renaissance ; War has become very different : The Battle of Castilon ; As different from ours as day and night : The Columbian exchange ; My conscience is captive to the Word of God : Martin Luther's 95 theses ; He began war in Bohemia, which he subjugated and forced into his religion : The defenestration of Prague ; Royalty is a remedy for the spirit of rebellion : The conquests of Akbar the Great ; They cherished a great hope and inward zeal : The voyage of the Mayflower ; We will cut off his head with the crown upon it : The execution of Charles I -- The very being of the plantations depends upon the supple of Negro servants : The formation of the Royal African Company ; There is no corner where one does not of talk shares : The opening of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange ; After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet : The Battle of Sekigahara ; Use barbarians to control barbarians : The revolt of the three feudatories ; I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy : Newton publishes Principia ; As far as I think it possible for man to go : The voyages of Captain Cook ; I am the state : Louis XIV begins personal rule of France ; Don't forget your great guns, the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings : The Battle of Quebec ; Assemble all the knowledge scattered on the surface of the earth : Diderot publishes the EncyclopΓ©die ; I built St. Petersburg as a window to let in the light of Europe : The founding of St. Petersburg --;Changing societies, 1776-1914 : We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal : The signing of the Declaration of Independence ; Sire, it's a revolution : The storming of the Bastille ; I must make all the peoples of Europe one people, and of Paris the capital of the world : The Battle of Waterloo ; Let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear; to hesitate is to perish : BolΓvar establishes Gran Colombia ; Life without industry is guilt : Stephenson's Rocket enters service ; You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know : The Slave Trade Abolition Act ; Society was cut in two : The 1848 revolutions ; This enterprise will return immense rewards : The construction of the Suez Canal ; Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved : Darwin publishes On the origin of the species ; Let us arm; let us fight for our brothers : The Expedition of the Thousand ; These sad scenes of death and sorrow, when are they to come to an end? : The Siege of Lucknow ; Better to abolish serfdom from above, than to wait for it to abolish itself from below : Russia emancipates the serfs ; Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth : The Gettysburg Address ; Our manifest destine is to overspread the continent : The California gold rush ; America is God's crucible, the greatest melting pot : The opening of Ellis Island ; Enrich the country, strengthen the military : The Meiji Restoration ; In my hand I wield the universe and the power to attack and kill : The second opium war ; I ought to be jealous of the Eiffel Tower; she is more famous than I am : The opening of the Eiffel Tower ; If I could, I would annex other planets : The Berlin Conference ; My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth, and the teachings of science ; Deeds not words : The death of Emily Davison -- The modern world, 1914-present : You often wish you were dead : The Balle of Passchendaele ; History will not forgive us if we do not assume power now : The October Revolution ; This is not peace, this is an armistice fro 20 years : The Treaty of Versailles ; Death is the solution to all problems; no man - no problem : Stalin assumes power ; Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish : The Wall Street crash ; The truth is that men are tired of liberty : The Reichstag fire ; In starting and waging a war, it is not right that matters but victory : Nazi invasion of Poland ; The Final Solution of the Jewish question : The Wannssee Conference ; All we did was fly and sleep : The Berlin Airlift ; At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom : Indian independence and partition ; The name of our state shall be Israel : The establishment of Israel ; The Long March is a manifesto, a propaganda force, a seeding-machine : The Long March ; Ghana, your beloved country, is free forever : Nkrumah wins Ghanaian independence ; We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked : The Cuban Missile Crisis ; People of the whole world are pointing to the satellite : The launch of Sputnik ; I have a dream : The March on Washington ; I am not going to lose Vietnam : The Gulf of Tonkin incident ; A revolution is not a bed of roses : The Bay of Pigs invasion ; Scatter the old world, build the new : The cultural revolution ; We shall defend it with our blood and strength, and we shall meet aggression with aggression and evil with evil : The Suez Crisis : The Iron Curtain is swept aside : The fall of the Berlin Wall ; All power to the people : The 1968 protests ; Never, never, and never again : The release of Nelson Mandela ; Create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival or life : The Siege of Sarajevo ; Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack : The 911 attacks ; You affect the world by what you browse : The launch of the first website ; A crisis that began in the mortgage markets of America has brought the world's financial system close to collapse : The global financial crisis ; This is a day about our entire human family : Global population exceeds 7 billion -- Glossary.;"The History Book is a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and the big ideas behind each one, from the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today. One hundred crystal-clear articles explore the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Renaissance, the American Revolution, World War II, and much, much more, bringing the events and people of history to life. As part of DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, The History Book uses infographics and images to explain key ideas and themes. Biographies of key leaders, thinkers, and warriors, from Julius Caesar to Barack Obama, offer insight into their lives and further historical insight into these world-changing episodes. The History Book makes the past 4,000 years of history accessible and provides enlightenment on the forces that shaped the world as we know it today, for students and history buffs alike. --
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