LITMIR.BIZ

      First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Canongate Books Ltd,

       14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      Copyright © Matthew White, 2011

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      First published in the USA in 2011 as The Great Big Book of Horrible Things by W.W. Norton & Company Ltd, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 0 85786 122 1

       eISBN 978 0 85786 125 2

      This digital edition first published by Canongate in 2011

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       To my mother, who gave me my sense of humor,

       and my father, who gave me my sense of justice

CONTENTS

       List of Maps

       Foreword by Steven Pinker

       Introduction

       Second Persian War

       Alexander the Great

       Age of Warring States

       First Punic War

       Qin Shi Huang Di

       Second Punic War

       Gladiatorial Games

       Roman Slave Wars

       War of the Allies

       Third Mithridatic War

       Gallic War

       Ancient Innumeracy

       Xin Dynasty

       Roman-Jewish Wars

       The Three Kingdoms of China

       Fall of the Western Roman Empire

       Justinian

       Goguryeo-Sui Wars

       Mideast Slave Trade

       An Lushan Rebellion

       Mayan Collapse

       The Crusades

       Religious Killing

       Fang La Rebellion

       Genghis Khan

       Albigensian Crusade

       Hulagu’s Invasion

       Hundred Years War

       Fall of the Yuan Dynasty

       Bahmani-Vijayanagara War

       Timur

       Chinese Conquest of Vietnam

       Aztec Human Sacrifice

       Atlantic Slave Trade

       Conquest of the Americas

       Genocide

       Burma-Siam Wars

       French Wars of Religion

       Russo-Tatar War

       The Time of Troubles

       Thirty Years War

       Collapse of the Ming Dynasty

       Cromwell’s Invasion of Ireland

       Aurangzeb

       Great Turkish War

       Peter the Great

       Great

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