People Who Changed the World

by Castleden, Rodney

• ISBN13: 9780316731591
• ISBN10: 0316731595
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Book Sales

Summary

Arranged in chronological order, this book includes the following details about each person: dates, potted biography, list of achievements, and impact on the world.

Table of Contents

Introduction	10	(6)
I. The Ancient World
Imhotep	16	(3)
Hammurabi	19	(2)
Moses	21	(2)
Muwatallis	23	(3)
Ramesses II	26	(2)
Agamemnon	28	(4)
Homer	32	(2)
Nebuchadnezzar	34	(2)
Pythagoras	36	(3)
Buddha	39	(2)
Confucius	41	(4)
Aeschylus	45	(3)
Xerxes	48	(3)
Pheidias	51	(4)
Sophocles	55	(3)
Pericles	58	(3)
Plato	61	(3)
Aristotle	64	(3)
Alexander the Great	67	(5)
Herostratus	72	(2)
Euclid	74	(2)
Archimedes	76	(3)
Qin Shi Huang Ti	79	(3)
Julius Caesar	82	(4)
Mark Antony	86	(2)
Augustus	88	(3)
Jesus Christ	91	(5)
Ptolemy	96	(3)
Alaric	99	(3)
Attila the Hun	102	(6)
II. The Medieval and Renaissance World
Clovis	108	(3)
Cosmas Indicopleustes	111	(2)
Mohammed	113	(3)
Charlemagne	116	(2)
William the Conqueror	118	(5)
Saladin	123	(3)
Genghis Khan	126	(3)
Marco Polo	129	(3)
Dante Alighieri	132	(2)
William of Occam	134	(1)
Johannes Gutenberg	135	(2)
Christopher Columbus	137	(3)
Leonardo da Vinci	140	(2)
Vasco da Gama	142	(3)
Nicolas Copernicus	145	(3)
Francisco Pizarro	148	(3)
Ferdinand Magellan	151	(4)
Martin Luther	155	(4)
Ivan the Terrible	159	(4)
Richard Tarleton	163	(3)
Hideyoshi Toyotomi	166	(3)
Akbar	169	(2)
Sir John Harington	171	(2)
William Shakespeare	173	(5)
Galileo Galilei	178	(6)
III. The Enlightened World
Cardinal Richelieu	184	(4)
Oliver Cromwell	188	(4)
Blaise Pascal	192	(3)
Sir Isaac Newton	195	(4)
Gottfried Leibniz	199	(6)
Thomas Savery	205	(2)
Peter the Great	207	(3)
Abraham Darby	210	(1)
Voltaire	211	(3)
Mikhail Lomonosov	214	(2)
Jean Jacques Rousseau	216	(4)
James Hutton	220	(4)
James Cook	224	(3)
George Washington	227	(4)
James Watt	231	(3)
Tom Paine	234	(2)
Montgolfier Brothers	236	(3)
Prince Gebhard von Blucher	239	(3)
Johann Pestalozzi	242	(3)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	245	(5)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	250	(4)
Marquis de la Fayette	254	(5)
Lord Horatio Nelson	259	(7)
Maximilien Robespierre	266	(5)
William Wilberforce	271	(3)
William Symington	274	(2)
Thomas Malthus	276	(4)
Lord Elgin	280	(4)
IV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WORLD
Napoleon Bonaparte	284	(3)
Duke of Wellington	287	(5)
Ludwig van Beethoven	292	(2)
Richard Trevithick	294	(3)
Elizabeth Fry	297	(2)
Simon Bolivar	299	(4)
Artur Schopenhauer	303	(2)
Louis Daguerre	305	(2)
Michael Faraday	307	(2)
William Henry Fox Talbot	309	(2)
Robert Owen	311	(4)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel	315	(3)
Louis Agassiz	318	(3)
Thomas Cook	321	(2)
Charles Darwin	323	(5)
Abraham Lincoln	328	(5)
Cyrus McCormick	333	(2)
Elisha Otis	335	(2)
Charles Dickens	337	(4)
Richard Wagner	341	(3)
Karl Marx	344	(5)
Louis Pasteur	349	(4)
Heinrich Schliemann	353	(7)
Joseph Lister	360	(2)
Leo Tolstoy	362	(5)
Gottlieb Daimler	367	(2)
Emile Zola	369	(3)
John Boyd Dunlop	372	(2)
Henry Morton Stanley	374	(5)
Karl Benz	379	(2)
Thomas Edison	381	(3)
Alexander Graham Bell	384	(2)
W. G. Grace	386	(2)
Friedrich Alfred Krupp	388	(2)
Oscar Wilde	390	(6)
V. THE MODERN WORLD
Sigmund Freud	396	(4)
Kaiser Wilhelm II	400	(4)
Frank Lloyd Wright	404	(3)
Orville Wright	407	(2)
Wilbur Wright	409	(1)
Marie Curie	410	(2)
Tsar Nicholas II	412	(3)
Mohandas Gandhi	415	(5)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin	420	(5)
Bertrand Russell	425	(3)
Winston Churchill	428	(6)
Guglielmo Marconi	434	(3)
Arnold Schoenberg	437	(2)
Carl Gustav Jung	439	(7)
Muhammed Ali Jinnah	446	(2)
Joseph Stalin	448	(7)
Albert Einstein	455	(3)
Marie Stopes	458	(2)
Pablo Picasso	460	(3)
James Joyce	463	(4)
D. H. Lawrence	467	(3)
Le Corbusier	470	(3)
Irving Berlin	473	(2)
Ludwig Wittgenstein	475	(2)
Adolf Hitler	477	(7)
Charlie Chaplin	484	(2)
Jomo Kenyatta	486	(2)
Jawaharlal Nehru	488	(3)
Mao Zedong	491	(4)
Walt Disney	495	(3)
Richard Rodgers	498	(2)
Gregory Pincus	500	(2)
Robert Oppenheimer	502	(2)
Mother Teresa	504	(2)
Jesse Owens	506	(1)
Joan Littlewood	507	(2)
Francis Crick	509	(2)
John F. Kennedy	511	(3)
Spike Milligan	514	(2)
Billy Graham	516	(2)
Nelson Mandela	518	(4)
Leonard Bernstein	522	(3)
Edmund Hillary	525	(2)
Pope John Paul II	527	(4)
Robert Maxwell	531	(4)
Peter Sellers	535	(2)
Marilyn Monroe	537	(2)
Bill Haley	539	(2)
Fidel Castro	541	(2)
Che Guevara	543	(2)
Martin Luther King	545	(3)
Mikhail Gorbachev	548	(3)
Elvis Presley	551	(3)
Germaine Greer	554	(2)
John Lennon and Paul McCartney	556	(4)
Bob Geldof	560	(4)
Bill Gates	564	(2)
Tim Berners-Lee	566	(2)
Osama bin Laden	568	(5)
Index of Names	573