World History & Ancient Civilizations

History, The Secrets of Ancient Civilizations and Great Empires that Shaped Modern World. Curious on the past and how it still influences the present and perhaps even the future? Interested on the role those ancient civilizations played in shaping the world, as we now know it? Ready to discover their origins, unique contributions, their influential figures, their secrets and other facts and trivia? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you! Ancient civilizations have always been a subject of much interest because of the lessons they can teach present day society. If you want to be transported back in time and walk the Roman roads, see Greek temples, ignite Chinese gunpowder, hear Celtic stories and conquer Persian enemies, then this book is definitely for you! I want to share with you a collection of stories, records, and rumors of people who have lived before us thousands of years ago. I want you to discover just as I did the exciting but dangerous, the peaceful but warlike and the rise and fall of empires that were thought to last for eternity. This book will give you a glimpse to a world where the whims of how one tyrant can burn an entire city to the ground, how the will of the people can change an entire culture, how being the first in the technology race can win a war, how an entire civilization can keep its culture secret and how an empire rise and fall.