Unit 1 1
Part A Significant Events 1 1
．Magna Carta 1
．China's First Agricultural Revolution 2
．The Renaissance 3
．The Industrial Revolution 4
．Women Suffrage Movements 5
Part B Marvelous Inventions(1) 9 6
．Clock and Timekeeping 6
．The Chronometer 7
．Invention of the Steam Locomotive 8
．Invention of the Phonograph 9
Part C Delightful Moment 14 10
．Minnie Had a Little Lamb 10
Unit 2 11
Part A Great Books 15 11
．Dante's Divine Comedy 11
．Ibn Khaldun's World History 12
．The Canterbury Tales 13
．The King James Bible 14
．Uncle Tom's Cabin 15
Part B Epoch-Making Discoveries 22 16
．Columbus Discovered America 16
．The Discovery of Blood Circulation 17
．Oil! 18
．The Discovery of Penicillin 19
Part C Delightful Moment 28 20
．Lonesome Valley 20
Unit 3 21
Part A Disasters and Calamities 29 21
．Black Death 21
．Irish Potato Famine 22
．The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 23
．The Great Depression 24
．Holocaust 25
Part B Scientific Giants(1) 36 26
．Copernicus and Galileo 26
．Charles Darwin 27
．Mendeleev and the Periodic Table of Elements 28
．Robert Goddard:Rocket Pioneer 29
Part C Delightful Moment 42 30
．Brother,Can You Spare a Dime? 30
Unit 4 31
Part A Music 43 31
．The Piano 31
．Orchestra 32
．Mozart 33
．The Waltz King 34
．Blues Music 35
Part B Scientific Giants(2) 50 36
．Alfred Nobel:From Dynamite to Peace 36
．Gregor Mendel Discovers Plant Genetics 37
．Edison:The Wizard of Menlo Park 38
．Einstein 39
Part C Delightful Moment 56 40
．One Day When We Were Young 40
Unit 5 41
Part A Powerful Empires 57 41
．Genghis Khan 41
．The End of the Roman Empire 42
．The Inca Empire 43
．Ming Dynasty 44
．The Fall of the Ottoman Empire 45
Part B The French Influence 65 46
．Voltaire 46
．Jean Jacques Rousseau 47
．French Revolution 48
．Napoleonic Wars 49
Part C Delightful Moment 70 50
．I Love Paris 50
Unit 6 51
Part A Titanic Explorations 71 51
．Marco Polo 51
．European Explorers 52
．Lewis and Clark Expedition 53
．North and South Poles 54
．Conquering Mt.Everest's Summit 55
Part B Milestones in Medicine(1) 79 56
．Germ Theory of Disease 56
．Quinine 57
．Blood Transfusions 58
．Polio Vaccination 59
Part C Delightful Moment 85 60
．Climb Every Mountain 60
Unit 7 61
Part A Arts 86 61
．Baroque 61
．Opera 62
．Romanticism 63
．Ballet 64
．Impressionism 65
Part B Marvelous Inventions(2) 94 66
．Chinese Use of Explosives 66
．The Microscope 67
．Steamboat 68
．Marconi:Wonders of Wireless 69
Part C Delightful Moment 100 70
．Must the Winter Come So Soon? 70
Unit 8 71
Part A Religious Conflicts 101 71
．Christian Church Schism of 1054 71
．The Crusades 72
．The Inquisition 73
．Spread of Islam 74
．Birth of the State of Israel 75
Part B Architectural Wonders 109 76
．Gothic Cathedrals 76
．Taj Mahal 77
．The Library of Congress 78
．The First Skyscraper 79
Part C Delightful Moment 114 80
．A Heart in New York 80
Unit 9 81
Part A Wars 116 81
．Battle of Trafalgar and Pax Brittanica 81
．Opium Wars 82
．Spanish-American War 83
．The First World War 84
．The Second World War 85
Part B Prominent Leaders 124 86
．Peter the Great 86
．Bismarck and the Unification of Germany 87
．F.D.R. 88
．Life and Work of Winston Churchill 89
Part C Delightful Moment 129 90
．Pearl Harbor Blues 90
Unit 10 91
Part A Supreme Masters of Art 131 91
．Michelangelo 91
．Shakespeare 92
．Goethe 93
．Picasso 94
．Brancusi 95
Part B The American Impact(1) 139 96
．The Declaration of Independence 96
．Emancipation Proclamation 97
．Battle of Gettysburg and Its Implications 98
．Huckleberry Finn 99
Part C Delightful Moment 146 100
．Tell My Father 100
Unit 11 101
Part A Imperialism and Nationalism 147 101
．Age of European Imperialism 101
．The Liberator:Simón Bolí var 102
．Waning of European Imperialism 103
．Mohandas Gandhi 104
．Nationalism 105
Part B Milestones in Medicine(2) 154 106
．Ether 106
．Antiseptic Surgery 107
．X-Rays 108
．Kidney Dialysis 109
Part C Delightful Moment 160 110
．55 Days at Peking 110
Unit 12 111
Part A World-Famous Writers 161 111
．Jane Austen 111
．Charles Dickens 112
．Leo Tolstoy 113
．Ernest Hemingway 114
．Jorge Luis Borges 115
Part B The British Heritage 169 116
．William the Conqueror 116
．Henry VIII and the Church 117
．Florence Nightingale 118
．The History of Soccer 119
Part C Delightful Moment 175 120
．An Englishman in New York 120
Unit 13 121
Part A Historical Lessons 176 121
．Closing China 121
．Expulsion of Jews from Iberia 122
．Perry Opens Japan 123
．Slavery Comes to Colonial America 124
．Indian Pacification 125
Part B Environment Protection 184 126
．Extinction of the Dodo Bird 126
．John Muir 127
．Silent Spring 128
．Extinction Protection Laws in US 129
Part C Delightful Moment 190 130
．Bye-bye,Dodo 130
Unit 14 131
Part A Advances in Science＆Technology 191 131
．Discovery of the DNA Molecule 131
．The Green Revolution 132
．Agricultural Biotechnology 133
．Laser Surgery 134
．Mapping of the Human Genome 135
Part B The American Impact(2) 198 136
．New World Crops 136
．Henry Ford and Mass Production 137
．Motion Pictures 138
．Broadway Musical 139
Part C Delightful Moment 205 140
．America 140
Unit 15 141
Part A Miracles of the 20th Century 207 141
．Television 141
．The First Electronic Computer 142
．Sputnik 143
．Moon Landing 144
．Internet 145
Part B Education and Sports 215 146
．Universities 146
．Harvard University 147
．Basketball 148
．Modern Olympic Movement 149
Part C Delightful Moment 221 150
．Twentieth Century 150