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Cover
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Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Part 1 - First Century
Chapter 1 - Who was the first Roman emperor?
Chapter 2 - What was the first poetic handbook of Greek mythology?
Chapter 3 - Who was the first Roman emperor to be assassinated?
Chapter 4 - Who was the first pope?
Chapter 5 - Who was the first known conqueror of Britain?
Chapter 6 - Who were the first Christian missionaries?
Chapter 7 - What was the first canonical Gospel to be written?
Chapter 8 - When was the first recorded eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Part 2 - Second Century
Chapter 9 - Who was the traditional first inventor of paper?
Chapter 10 - Which emperor first criminalized Christianity in the Roman Empire?
Chapter 11 - Who was the first comparative biographer?
Chapter 12 - What are the first surviving serial biographies of the caesars?
Chapter 13 - Who built the first great Roman wall in Britain?
Chapter 14 - Who was the first philosopher-king?
Chapter 15 - What was the first great rabbinic compilation?
Part 3 - Third Century
Chapter 16 - Who was the first emperor to grant Roman citizenship to all freeborn men of the empire?
Chapter 17 - Who was the first King of Kings of the Sassanian (New Persian) Empire?
Chapter 18 - Who was the first “barracks emperor” of Rome?
Chapter 19 - Where was the first Gothic raid into the Roman Empire?
Chapter 20 - Who was the first Manichaean?
Chapter 21 - Who was the first great master of Neoplatonism?
Chapter 22 - Who is considered the first Christian monk?
Chapter 23 - Who were the first Roman tetrarchs?
Part 4 - Fourth Century
Chapter 24 - What was the first legal toleration of Christianity in the Roman Empire?
Chapter 25 - Who was the first Gupta emperor of northern India?
Chapter 26 - Who was the first Santa Claus?
Chapter 27 - What was the first ecumenical Christian council?
Chapter 28 - What was the first major battle in the West in which cavalry was decisive?
Chapter 29 - Who first made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire?
Chapter 30 - What is the first surviving European cookbook?
Chapter 31 - What is the first surviving book-length autobiography?
Part 5 - Fifth Century
Chapter 32 - What was the first Latin translation of the Old Testament made directly from the Hebrew?
Chapter 33 - Who first sacked the city of Rome?
Chapter 34 - Who was the first Christian missionary to Ireland?
Chapter 35 - Who led the first Germanic settlers to Britain?
Chapter 36 - Who were the first inhabitants of the Venetian lagoons?
Chapter 37 - Who was the first barbarian king of Italy?
Chapter 38 - Who is considered the first king of France?
Chapter 39 - What was the first great schism between Western and Eastern Christian Churches?
Part 6 - Sixth Century
Chapter 40 - Who first developed the Christian calendar?
Chapter 41 - What was the first event of the Middle Ages?
Chapter 42 - What was the first complete codification of Roman law?
Chapter 43 - Where was chess first developed?
Chapter 44 - What is the first surviving tell-all memoir about royals?
Chapter 45 - Who was the first important historian of the Franks (the early French)?
Chapter 46 - Who was the first Christian missionary to Anglo-Saxon England?
Part 7 - Seventh Century
Chapter 47 - What is the first surviving English love poem?
Chapter 48 - Where were the first civil service examinations instituted?
Chapter 49 - Who was the first Muslim?
Chapter 50 - Who was the first caliph?
Chapter 51 - What was the first nation outside Arabia to fall to Islam?
Chapter 52 - Who was the first English poet known by name?
Chapter 53 - Who first used Greek fire?
Part 8 - Eighth Century
Chapter 54 - What is the first surviving epic poem in a European vernacular language?
Chapter 55 - Who initiated the first iconoclast persecution?
Chapter 56 - What was the first full-length work of English history?
Chapter 57 - What was the first decisive defeat of the Muslims in Western Europe?
Chapter 58 - Who was the first world-class Chinese poet?
Chapter 59 - Which was the first European Renaissance?
Chapter 60 - Where did the first overseas Viking raid occur?
Chapter 61 - Who was the first emperor in the West since the fall of the Roman Empire?
Part 9 - Ninth Century
Chapter 62 - Who was the first Scandinavian ruler to convert to Christianity?
Chapter 63 - Which king first united all of England?
Chapter 64 - What is the first surviving text in a Romance language?
Chapter 65 - Who was the first major Muslim philosopher?
Chapter 66 - Who were the first successful Christian missionaries to the Slavs?
Chapter 67 - What was the first important Russian state?
Chapter 68 - Who built the first regular English navy?
Part 10 - Tenth Century
Chapter 69 - Who was the first pope of the Pornocracy?
Chapter 70 - What was the first federated monastic order?
Chapter 71 - Where was gunpowder first used in battle?
Chapter 72 - What was the first general legislative assembly in Europe?
Chapter 73 - Who was the first Holy Roman Emperor?
Chapter 74 - Where was the first medical school in medieval Europe?
Chapter 75 - Who was the first European to sight the Americas?
Part 11 - Eleventh Century
Chapter 76 - Who first developed solmization (do, re, mi, etc.)?
Chapter 77 - Who first developed movable type?
Chapter 78 - Who was the first Norman king of England?
Chapter 79 - Which was the first university?
Chapter 80 - Who were the first Assassins?
Chapter 81 - What was the first chanson de geste?
Chapter 82 - What was the First Crusade?
Part 12 - Twelfth Century
Chapter 83 - Who is considered the first troubadour?
Chapter 84 - What was the first Western erotic memoir?
Chapter 85 - What was the first major building in the Gothic style?
Chapter 86 - Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?
Chapter 87 - What was the first treatise on courtly love in Christian Europe?
Chapter 88 - Who established the first Japanese shogunate?
Chapter 89 - What is the first surviving Spanish epic?
Part 13 - Thirteenth Century
Chapter 90 - What was the first sack of Constantinople?
Chapter 91 - Who was the first ruler of the Mongol Empire?
Chapter 92 - Who were the first friars?
Chapter 93 - What was the first guarantee of rights exacted from an English king?
Chapter 94 - Who launched the first papal Inquisition?
Chapter 95 - Who wrote the first sonnets?
Chapter 96 - Which English parliament first included town representatives?
Part 14 - Fourteenth Century
Chapter 97 - Who was the first modern painter, according to Giorgio Vasari?
Chapter 98 - What was the first Italian epic poem?
Chapter 99 - What was the first appearance of the Black Death in Western Europe?
Chapter 100 - Who was the first modern man?
Chapter 101 - Who was the first university teacher of Greek in Western Europe?
Chapter 102 - Who completed the first translation of the Bible into English?
Chapter 103 - Who was the first world-class English poet?
Part 15 - Fifteenth Century
Chapter 104 - Who was the first Renaissance architect?
Chapter 105 - Who was the first Renaissance painter?
Chapter 106 - Who was the first Medici ruler of Florence?
Chapter 107 - Who was the first “Universal Man”?
Chapter 108 - Who invented the first mechanical printing press?
Chapter 109 - Who was the first Muslim overlord of Constantinople?
Chapter 110 - Who was the first French.
Chapter 111 - What was the first voyage of Christopher Columbus?
Part 16 - Sixteenth Century
Chapter 112 - Who was the first modern political scientist?
Chapter 113 - Who was the first successful Protestant reformer?
Chapter 114 - Who made the first coherent statement of the heliocentric theory?
Chapter 115 - Who was the first ruler crowned as czar of Russia?
Chapter 116 - Who was the first modern essayist?
Chapter 117 - What was the first Shakespearean tragedy?
Chapter 118 - What was the world’s first opera?
Part 17 - Seventeenth Century
Chapter 119 - What was the first English dictionary?
Chapter 120 - What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Chapter 121 - Who built the first astronomical telescope?
Chapter 122 - What was the first great novel of world literature?
Chapter 123 - Who first discovered the circulation of the blood?
Chapter 124 - What was the first collection of Shakespeare’s plays?
Chapter 125 - What was the first work of modern philosophy?
Chapter 126 - Who first published a work on calculus?
Part 18 - Eighteenth Century
Chapter 127 - Who was the first British prime minister?
Chapter 128 - What was the First Continental Congress?
Chapter 129 - What was the first battle of the American Revolution?
Chapter 130 - Who was the first president of the United States?
Chapter 131 - What was the first action of the French Revolution?
Chapter 132 - What was the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Chapter 133 - What was the first permanent African settlement for freed slaves?
Chapter 134 - What was the first manifesto of British literary Romanticism?
Part 19 - Nineteenth Century
Chapter 135 - What was the first French empire?
Chapter 136 - What was the first photograph?
Chapter 137 - Who first published a theory of evolution based on natural selection?
Chapter 138 - What was the first major battle of the American Civil War?
Chapter 139 - What was the first Impressionist painting?
Chapter 140 - Who developed the first practical incandescent lamp?
Chapter 141 - Who developed the first gasoline-powered four-wheeled automobile?
Chapter 142 - What was the first modern theory of dream interpretation?
Part 20 - Twentieth Century
Chapter 143 - What was the first narrative film?
Chapter 144 - Who made the first powered flight?
Chapter 145 - What was the first theory of relativity?
Chapter 146 - What was the First World War?
Chapter 147 - Who first transmitted a live television image of a human face?
Chapter 148 - What was the first antibiotic that was safe and effective in humans?
Chapter 149 - Who was the first human to walk on the moon?
Chapter 150 - What was the first internet?
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