Cyrus the Great, the father of mankind - The Persian Empire spanned Asia, Europe and Africa - The Greek Civil War Peloponnesian War - The Macedonian World Empire - Alexander's Diadochi War - Pyrrhus, Hannibal's Scourge of Rome - Caesar and Octavian founded the Roman era - Constantine Christianized Byzantium for a thousand years - Franks and Western Europeans strengthened Europe - Muhammad and Omer opened up the world-wide Arab empire - The era of British kings after the Norman conquest - Muslim and Christian Crusades - Mongolia Invasion - The Hundred Years' War between England and France - The founding of the Ottoman state, the conquest of Byzantium by Mohammed II - Portuguese exploration of Africa - Isabel unified Spain, funded Columbus, the era when the sun never sets - Elizabeth defeated the Spanish Armada - Peter I shaped the Russian Empire - The last Roman America - French Revolution - Saint Martin and Bolivar's South American independence movement - Bismarck's Germany - Garibaldi unified Italy and moved to Europe - World War II - The fate of the Jews
