Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he dealt largely with history and public affairs, and he corresponded with Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Louis XV, and most of the prominent people of the time. ... The developing "powers" jostled one another throughout the world; but for a time it seemed that they might jostle one another indefinitely without any great catastrophe to mankind. The great geographical discoveries of the s...

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Decline of great Mayan civilization in Central America c. ... Alfred the Great becomes king of England, forces the Danes from Wessex H. 900-1066 1. ... William Butler Yeats was another author whose work was influenced; he used it as an attempt to make the Irish aware of their lost heroic past. ... The Romans: The Great Administrators 1. ... He also played an important role on the lives of people who produced great poetry and also maintained a somber. ...

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