Fifty Things You Need to Know about World History

<p>What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?</p> <p>In this highly entertaining read Hugh Williams distils world history into an insightful overview. By selecting fifty key people, places, battles, objects and events, he casts a clear eye over the way the world has developed and how we live today.<br>Injecting life into familiar historical landmarks as well as bringing lesser-known events to the forefront, Hugh shapes the fifty things into themes as all-encompassing today as they were over two thousand years ago: wealth, religion, conquest, discovery and freedom.</p> <p>The Fifty Things include...<br>Origin of Species<br>Model T Ford<br>The Russian Revolution<br>Plato<br>Conquest of Mexico<br>Mao Tse Tung<br>Crucifixion of Jesus<br>Via Egnatia<br>Worldwide web<br>Ozymandias<br>9/11<br>Nelson Mandela<br>Coronation of Charlemagne<br>American Declaration of Independence<br>Franco-Prussian War<br>Mahabharata<br>The Black Death<br>And many more...</p>