I Used to Know That.

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Title page Dedication page Copyright page Contents Foreword by Caroline Taggart Introduction EARLY CIVILIZATIONS Pre-Classical Civilizations Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece The Roman Empire THE BEGINNINGS OF EUROPE The Goths and the Vandals The Huns The Lombards The Franks and the Holy Roman Empire The Angles, Saxons and Jutes The Vikings The Normans THE MIDDLE AGES Medieval life The Crusades Magna Carta The Black Death The Hundred Years Wars The Peasants’ Revolt THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION The Renaissance The Reformation The Rise of the Tudors Henry VIII and the Break with Rome Elizabeth I and the Church of England THE AGE OF DISCOVERY Portuguese and Spanish Exploration English Adventurers Other Early Empires The Spanish Armada Religious Freedom THE AGE OF REASON AND REVOLUTION James I and the Union of Crowns The British Civil Wars The Restoration The Glorious Revolution The Acts of Union and the Jacobite Cause The Enlightenment The American War of Independence The French Revolution The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions THE AGE OF EMPIRE The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars The British Empire Other European Empires The Scramble for Africa American Expansion The American Civil War The Slave Trade and Abolition Movement Colonial Wars CONFLICT AND A NEW WORLD ORDER The Triple Entente The First World War The Russian Revolutions The Anglo-Irish Conflict The Rise of Italian Fascism The Spanish Civil War Hitler and Nazi Germany The Second World War United Nations The Cold War The End of the Communist Era Timeline Select Bibliography Index