CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Once Upon A Time -- 2 The Greatest Inventors of All Time -- 3 The Land by the Nile -- 4 Sunday, Monday -- 5 The One and Only God -- 6 I C-A-N R-E-A-D -- 7 Heroes and their Weapons -- 8 An Uneaual Struggle -- 9 Two Small Cities in One Samll Land -- 10 The Enlightened One and his Land -- 11 The Greatest Teacher of A Great People -- 12 The Greatest Adventure of All -- 13 New War and New Warriers -- 14 An enemy of History -- 15 Rulers of the Western World -- 16 The Good News -- 17 Life in the empire at its Frontiers -- 18 The Storm -- 19 The Starry night Begins -- 20 There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet -- 21 A Conqueror who Knows How to Rule -- 22 A Struggle to Become Lord of Christendom -- 23 Chivalrous Knights -- 24 Emperors in the Age of Chivalry -- 25 Cities and Citizens -- 26 A New Age -- 27 A New World -- 28 A New Faith -- 29 The Church at War -- 30 Terrible Times -- 31 An Unlucky King and a Lucky King -- 32 Meanwhile, Looking Eastwards... -- 33 A Truly New Age -- 34 A Very Violent Revolution -- 35 The Last Conqueror -- 36 Men and Machines -- 37 Across the Seas -- 38 Two New States in Europe -- 39 Dividing up the New World -- 40 The Small Part of the History of the World Which I have Lived Through Myself: Looking Back.