Del Testa, David W

Profiles two hundred great leaders from throughout history, describing their lives, work, and legacies, and presenting time lines of each figure's life and coinciding world events. Includes government leaders, military rulers, and political activists from around the world.

Presents articles on seventy significant cross-cultural encounters in world history, such as the spread of the Phoenician alphabet, the rise of monotheistic civilizations, the opening of Japan to the West, and the AIDS pandemic, and includes time lines, glossaries, bibliographies, and seventy primary documents.