100 Events That Made History

130 Pages·2016·48.1 MB·English

by  Clare Hibbert

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Contents
6 Social 36 Battles and
firsts brawls
8 The first farmers 38 Egypt vs. Hittites
10 First tools 40 Caesar takes Rome
11 First art 42 The Battle of Hastings
12 Ur founded 44 Jerusalem falls
13 Pipe dream 45 Mongols united
14 First powerful woman 46 The 95 Theses
16 Laws are written down 48 Aztecs and Incas defeated
18 World religions founded 50 The siege of Vienna
Hinduism 52 T he American Revolution
Buddhism
54 The French Revolution
Judasim
56 Revolutions in South America
Christianity
58 Gettysburg Address
Islam
59 Battle of Little Bighorn
20 The teachings of Confucius
60 Assassinations
22 First Olympic Games
Julius Caesar
23 Dawn of democracy
Abraham Lincoln
24 Black Death
Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi
26 Striking silver John F. Kennedy
27 Pilgrims set sail Martin Luther King, Jr.
28 Agricultural revolution 62 Franz Ferdinand assassinated
29 Industrial Revolution 64 Atomic bombs dropped
30 Slavery abolished 66 Cuban Missile Crisis
31 Women get the vote 68 The Fall of the Wall
32 March to Montgomery 70 Troubling times
34 Abolishing apartheid The Northern Irish Troubles
Palestinian Intifada
9/11
Global banking crisis
Arab Spring
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72 All 100 Amazing
change achievements
74 Roman Republic is founded 102 First writing
75 The sack of Rome 103 The plow
76 Alexander destroys Persepolis 104 Discovery of bronze
78 Teotihuacan comes of age 106 Building the Great Wall
80 Coronation of Charlemagne 108 Building beauties
82 Dreadful disasters The Great Pyramid
Spanish Armada destroyed Angkor Wat
Mount Vesuvius erupts Machu Picchu
The Titanic sinks Taj Mahal
The Bhola Cyclone Great Mosque of Djenné
Chernobyl nuclear explosion 110 Printed words
84 The Silk Road starts 111 Hangul alphabet
86 Fall of Constantinople 112 The Mona Lisa
87 The Time of Troubles 114 Galileo’s telescope
88 Columbus reaches the Americas 115 Newton’s laws of motion
90 Exciting explorations 116 Animal antics
Ibn Battuta Death by tortoise
Admiral Zheng He Guardian geese
Captain James Cook War horse
Lewis and Clark Dog in orbit
Roald Amundsen Double Dolly
92 Tasman’s voyages 118 Darwin's new ideas
94 Lenin returns 120 The first flight
95 Hitler seizes power 121 The first skyscraper
96 Independent India 122 Making connections
98 The Long March 123 Space race
99 The birth of Israel 124 And also...
126 Glossary
127 Index
128 Acknowledgments
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It takes only a spark of genius and a pinch of
passion to make big things happen. Throughout
history, the actions of a single individual or a
collective group have revolutionized society,
transforming the way people live. Influential
ideas, powerful beliefs, grand ambitions, and
brand-new breakthroughs have enriched entire
nations and influenced future generations.
By about 10,000 BCE, the wandering
peoples of the prehistoric world had
figured out that if you plant seeds,
they grow. They gave up roving and
hunting and began settling down to
T h e f i r s t become farmers.
f a r m e r s WBe ya ntchieent wfolak yd…idn’t
all toil on the land. Some
of us had time for
artsy stuff, like
inventing pottery.
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Hunter-gath e r e r s AdiT I O N
their way to CI V I L I Z
On the move
TRIBES of hunter-gatherers once drifted
from place to place, looking for animals
to hunt and plants to gather. People never
had the chance to build a settled community
because they had to keep moving in
search of food and water.
W h a t came after…
A community might give By 8000 BCE, farming had
security, but for the first sprung up in east Asia and
time people faced SOCIAL ISSUES the Americas. MAIZE, squashes,
such as garbage disposal, millet, and rice were top of
overcrowding, and fast- the menu in these regions.
spreading diseases.
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