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• ⚔️13 storiesCivil warsWhen a society fights itselfLate Han and Three Kingdoms · Sengoku and the unification of Japan · American Civil War
• 🏰18 storiesCity siegesWalls, hunger and enduranceSecond World War – Eastern Front · Trojan War (legendary tradition) · First Crusade
• ⚓15 storiesNaval battlesFleets, straits and the struggle for the seaGreco-Persian Wars · Late Han and Three Kingdoms · Seven Years’ War
• ✊25 storiesUndiscovered revolutionsUprisings and upheavals outside the spotlightEnglish Civil Wars · Haitian Revolution · Spanish American wars of independence
• 🗽6 storiesWars of independenceFrom colony or province to a state of its ownEighty Years’ War · American Revolutionary War · Vietnam War
• 🕊️16 storiesFaith & reformReligious conflicts and reformationsEarly Islamic conquests · First Crusade · Eighty Years’ War
• 🧭10 storiesColonial warsExpansion, resistance and world empiresSpanish conquest of the Aztec Empire · Seven Years’ War · American Revolutionary War
• 👑32 storiesEmpires & conquestsRise, unification and succession strugglesSecond World War – Eastern Front · Greco-Persian Wars · Campaigns of Alexander the Great
• 🌐4 storiesWorld warsTotal war on a global scaleSecond World War – Eastern Front · First World War · Second World War – Western Europe
• 🔬31 storiesBreakthroughs & ideasScience, technology and philosophyPublication of the Principia · Discovery of radium · Trial of Socrates
• 🌋22 storiesDisasters & pandemicsNatural forces and disease that tipped historyVredefort impact · Sudbury impact · Chicxulub impact
• ⛵15 storiesVoyages & tradeVoyages of discovery and economic upheavalFirst voyage of Zheng He · Columbus lands on Guanahani · First circumnavigation of the world
• 🎭10 storiesCulture & artMilestones in art, literature and heritageJesse Owens and the Berlin Olympic Games · Opening of the Sydney Opera House · Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio