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The Land of the Great Wall 4000 B.C. to A.D. 220
For many generations, the ancestors of P’an Keng had considered themselves kings in northern China. Yet this family of kings,
Civilization comes to India 3500 B.C to 200 B.C.
For thousands of years during the Stone Age, only scattered groups of people had lived in India. With only the
A New People, a New Faith 650 B. C. – 330 B. C
BABYLON, the final capital of Mesopotamia civilization, had fallen to warrior tribesmen from the east, the Medes and Persians. The
Early Civilizations to Modern Age
The New Deal 1933
WHEN Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated in 1932, he was fifty years old. A fifth cousin of former President Theodore
A Changing Nation 1934 – 1936
IN THE spring of 1933, as the New Deal roared into action, business began to get better, but it dropped
The Election of 1936
As Roosevelt’s first term in office neared its end, many people in the United States — and in other countries
Distant Past and New Challenges
Milestones of History
Notre-Dame, Palace of the Virgin (1194 A.D.)
Notre-Dame, Palace of the Virgin, with its clusters of columns, its soaring arches, its superb stone carvings and its matchless
Richard I, the Lion Heart (1194-1204 A. D.)
Richard I, the Lion Heart, fails to capture Jerusalem from the Saracens. The birth of the New Byzantium The first
Fall of Constantinople
Fall of Constantinople begins – the crusaders from the West had taken an oath to free the Holy Land from
