Biographies of 78 important people who changed history from around 3200 BC to 1900 AD.Some of the people whose lives are described are: The Yellow Emperor, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Tutankhamun, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Diogenes, Socrates, Moses, Jesus, Paul, Theodora, Mohammed, Charlemagne, Francis, Mahavira, Krishna, Buddha, Guru Nanak, Charlemagne, Saint Nicholas, Francis of Assisi, Genghis Khan, Mehmet II, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus, Comenius, Leibniz, Bach, Mozart, Linnaeus, Robert Boyle, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Lafayette, Napoleon, James Watt, Edward Jenner, Diponegoro, Sitting Bull, Frederick Douglass, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Henri Dunant, Karl Marx and Claude Monet.