Conflict and warfare is perpetual in the world today. It has always been like that. The history of the human race is the history of conflict. Conquest and glory versus death and destruction. Who takes us to war and why? This book traces world history through the conflicts that changed the world. From the Battle of Megiddo in 1479 BC to the Wars of the Roses of the Middle Ages and the American Civil War of the 19th century. From World Wars I and II to the Iraq War and the ongoing war against terror. Some conflicts are not only turning points in war but in history itself.Contents include Persian Invasion of Greece, Wars of Alexander the Great, The Slave Rebellion of Spartacus, Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, Boudicca's Rebellion, The Birth of Islam, Viking Raids, The Crusades, The Hundred Years War, Fall of Constantinople, The Wars of the Roses, Spanish Conquest of Peru, The Anglo-Spanish Wars, Rebellion in Ireland, British Civil War, Jacobite Rising, French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, The Zulu War, Crimean War, The American Civil War, World War I, World War II, The Cold War, Falklands War, The Gulf War, The War on Terror