Atlas of history's greatest disasters & mistakes : the 50 most significant moments explored in words and maps by Cooke, Tim, 1961- author instant download

Atlas of history's greatest disasters & mistakes : the 50 most significant moments explored in words and maps by Cooke, Tim, 1961- author instant download

223 pages . : 23 cm, Includes index, ANCIENT WORLD: -- The failed pyramid (the \"bent pyramid\") -- A new religion (Egypt, reign of Amenhotep IV) -- Fall of Croesus (King of Lydia in Anatolia) -- Battle of Lake Trasimene (Hannibal and the ambush of Roman troops at Lake Trasimene -- The Ides of March (assassination of Julius Caesar) -- Destruction of Pompeii -- Fall of Rome -- MIDDLE AGES: -- Vikings in Greenland -- King John's disaster (Magna Carta) -- Leaning Tower of Pisa -- Black Death -- Peasant's Revolt (England, 1381) -- Battle of Agincourt -- New World (Christopher Columbus) -- Bonfire of the Vanities (Florence, Italy and Savonarola) -- EARLY MODERN WORLD: -- Cortes and the Aztec -- End of an Empire (Spanish and the Inca) -- Lady Jane Grey -- Roanoke, the lost colony (Roanoke Island, North Carolina) -- Spanish Armarda -- Henry Hudson (quest for the North-West Passage) -- Great fire of London -- Easter Island -- Salem witch trials -- Scilly Naval disaster (Scilly Isles, England) -- American Independence -- NINETEENTH CENTURY: -- Napoleon in Russia -- Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War) -- The Great Stink (sewers and cholera, London, 1858) -- Battle of Little Big Horn -- Commercial disaster (Western Union declines to buy the rights to the telephone) -- Ghost dance (prophet Jack Wilson and a new religion for Native Americans 1880s, Battle of Wounded Knee) -- TWENTIETH CENTURY: -- San Francisco earthquake (April 1906) -- Triangle Shirtwaist fire (turning point for worker safety, Lower Manhattan, 1911) -- Sinking of the Titanic -- Gallipoli -- Battle of the Somme -- Prohibition -- Wall Street Crash -- Munich Conference (Chamberlain/Hitler and the Munich Agreement, 1938) -- Pearl Harbour -- Operation Barbarossa (Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941) -- Dieppe Raid (Dieppe, France, Operation Jubilee, 1942) -- CONTEMPORARY WORLD: -- Space Shuttle Challenger -- Alaska oil spill (grounding of Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound) -- Indian Ocean Tsunami…