Includes index.

1. Empires and religions 2000 BCE-1500 -- Moses -- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha -- Alexander the Great -- Qin Shi Huang -- Cleopatra -- Jesus Christ -- Augustus Caesar -- Boudicca -- Septimia Zenobia -- Muhammad -- Charlemagne -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Saladin -- Genghis Khan -- Amir Timur -- Joan of Arc -- Guru Nanak -- Directory -- 2. Conquest and liberty 1500-1820 -- Hernan Cortes -- Suleiman the Magnificent -- Elizabeth I -- Tokugawa leyasu -- Yi Sun-sin -- Louis XIV -- Frederick the Great -- George Washington -- Olaudah Equiano -- Maximilien Robespierre -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Simon Bolivar -- Maria Quiteria -- Directory -- 3. Nationhood and industry 1820-1920 -- Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Karl Marx -- Sojourner Truth -- Abraham Lincoln -- Susan B. Anthony -- Otto von Bismarck -- Tasunka Witko "Crazy Horse" -- John D. Rockefeller -- Jamsetji Tata -- Swami Vivekananda -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Henry Ford -- Coco Chanel -- Directory -- 4. Conflict and hope 1920-1950 -- Vladimir Lenin -- Michael Collins -- Adolf Hitler -- Joseph Stalin -- Kim Koo -- Mohandas Gandhi -- Bhagat Singh -- Haile Selassie -- Winston Churchill -- Douglas MacArthur -- Franklin Roosevelt -- Charles de Gaulle -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- David Ben-Gurion -- Mao Zedong -- Directory -- 5. Rights and revolutions 1950-1980 -- Kwame Nkrumah -- Fidel Castro -- John F. Kennedy -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Akio Morita -- Nelson Mandela -- Malcolm X -- Yasser Arafat -- Li Ka-shing -- Directory -- 6. Freedom and opportunities 1980-present -- Margaret Thatcher -- Bill Gates -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Benazir Bhutto -- Lech Walesa -- Vaclav Havel -- Oprah Winfrey -- Anna Wintour -- Jack Ma -- Vladimir Putin -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Angela Merkel -- Barack Obama -- Malala Yousafzai -- Directory.