Once upon a time -- The greatest inventors of all time -- The land by the Nile -- Sunday, Monday -- The one and only god -- I c-a-n r-e-a-d -- Heroes and their weapons -- An unequal struggle -- Two small cities in one small land -- The enlightened one and his land -- A great teacher of a great people -- The greatest adventure of all -- New wars and new warriors -- An enemy of history -- Rulers of the western world -- The good news -- Life in the empire and at its frontiers -- The storm -- The starry night begins -- There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet -- A conqueror who knows how to rule -- A struggle to become lord of Christendom -- Chivalrous knights -- Emperors in the age of chivalry -- Cities and citizens -- A new age -- A new world -- A new faith -- The church at war -- Terrible times -- An unlucky king and a lucky king -- Meanwhile, looking eastwards ... -- A truly new age -- A very violent revolution -- The last conqueror -- Men and machines -- Across the seas -- Two new states in Europe -- Dividing up the world -- The small part of the history of the world which I have lived through myself : looking back.