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Introduction



Lives and contributions of famous and infamous warriors who shaped our future. 

© 2017 Andrew Vecsey. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-387-74128-1


This book is a sequel to the science fiction “A Short History of a Long Future”. 

This book contains not only the life biographies of the people who shaped our future, but also explains the details behind their philosophy, religion, science, and art that drove them to their great contribution to mankind. 

This is a work of science fiction of the past and future based on the author's imagination. 

The main aim of this book is to provide an overview of a wide range of topics in a simplified, entertaining and funny form that make readers think, that fires their desire to learn, and awakens their curiosity to question. May your mind hunger for more knowledge and your soul thirst for more understanding.

Table of Contents

The Warriors -fighters and leaders

-->1421
Caligula (12-41) 

Roman Emperor. 
Eleanor of Aquataine
Henry II
King John (1166-1216) 
King of England. 
John of Gaunt
Joan of Arc
Henry VI

-->1757
Francisco Pizarro (1471-1541) 

Spanish conquistador of the Inca Empire.
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) 

Spanish conquistador of the Aztec Empire.
Mary I (1516-1568) 

The most hated English Queen.
Ivan I the Terrible (1530-1584) 

Tsar of Russia.
Peter the Great (1672-1725) 

Tzar of Russia.
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) 

Empress of Russia.
George Washington (1732-1799) 

US President
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 

US President

-->1882

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 
French dictator
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 

US president.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 

US president.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) 

Indian independence leader.
Lenin (1870-1924) 

Russian dictator
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 

British statesman.
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) 

Soviet Union leader.
Mustafa Atatürk (1881-1938) 

Turkish Founder of the Republic.
Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945) 

US president.

-->1895
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) 

Italian dictator.
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) 

Chinese statesman.
Thomas Lawrence (1888-1935) 

British military officer.
Ho Chí Minh (1890-1969) 

Vietnamese communist leader.
Tito (1892-1980) 

Yugoslav dictator.
Haile Selassie I (1892-1975) 

Ethiopia's king.
Francisco Franco (1892-1975) 

Spanish general and dictator.
Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976) 

Chinese revolutionary.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) 

Soviet statesman.

-->1906
Juan Perón (1895-1974) 
Argentine politician.
Imre Nagy (1896-1958) 

Hungarian communist politician.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) 

Israeli Prime Minister.
Al Capone (1899-1947) 

American “Robin Hood.”
Faisal Al Saud (1906-1975) 

Saudi Arabian King.

-->1921
Salvador Allende (1908-1973) 

Chilean politician.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 

US president.
Kim Il-sung (1912-1994) 

North Korean leader.
Richard Nixon (1913-1994) 

American politician.
Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006) 

Chilean dictator.
John Kennedy (1917-1963) 

American politician.
Gamal Nasser (1918-1970) 

Egyptian president.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) 

President of South Africa.
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918-1989) 

Romanian politician.
Alexander Dubček (1921-1992) 

Slovak politician.

-->1961
Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) 

Israeli general.
Shimon Peres (1923 -2016) 

Israeli politician.
Idi Amin (1923-2003) 

Ugandan president.
Pol Pot (1925-1998) 

Cambodian politician.
Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) 

Palestinian leader.
Martin Luther King (1929-1968) 

US Civil Rights leader.
Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000) 

Syrian president.
Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) 

Russian politician.
Václav Havel (1936-2011) 

Czech president.
Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) 

President of Iraq.
Kim Jong-il (1941-2011) 

Leader of North Korea.
Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011) 

Libyan dictator.
Osama bin Laden (1957- 2011) 

Founder of al-Qaeda. 

The Warriors – leaders presented in “A Short History of a Long Future

9000BC->2300BC Joe Ova

musical family, animal keeper, exterminator, pot maker, time keeper, beggar, 
painter (40,000BC), fire keeper (30,000BC), Pottery maker (30,000BC), priest (15,000BC), gardener (14,000BC), Native Indian (10,000BC), Jericho (9000BC), tower of Babel (6000BC), copper pot (5000BC), Brewer (3700BC), 
bronze wheel (3600BC), glass (3400BC), Stonehenge (3000BC), pyramid (2500BC), 
Star Gazer (2500BC), Silk (2400BC), 
Olmec (2300BC)

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Sargon of Akkad (2334BC-2279BC) 
Persian King and builder of Babylon.

Yu (2200BC-2100BC) 

Chinese Emperor known for controlling floods.

Hammurabi (1810BC-1750BC) 

Pesian King of Babylon known for his code of law.

Amenhotep IV (1370BC-1340BC) 

Egyptian pharaoh who refused to be considered a god.

Ramesses II (1303BC-1213BC) 

Egyptian pharaoh who claimed to be a god.

Solomon (993BC-903BC) 

Jewish king who was the son of David and builder of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Draco (650BC-601BC) 

Greek legislator known for his harsh laws.

Nebuchadnezzar II (634BC-562BC) 

Persian king.

Cyrus II (600BC-530BC) 

Persian king.

Miltiades (550BC-489BC) 

Greek general.

Sun Tzu ( 544BC-496BC) 

Chinese general, author of “The Art of War”.

Pyrrhus (318BC-272BC) 

Greek general.

Alexander III The Great (356BC-323BC) 

King of Macedonia.

Ashoka Maurya (304BC-232BC) 

Indian emperor who helped to spred Buddhism.

Qin Shi (259BC-210BC) 

Chinese emperor who burnt books and built walls.

Hannibal (247BC-182BC) 

One of the greatest military commanders in history from Carthage.

Publius Cornelius Africanus (236BC- 183BC) 

Roman general.

Spartacus (111BC-71BC) 

Greek gladiator.

Julius Caesar (100BC-44BC) 

Roman Emperor who married Cleopatra.

Vercingetorix (82BC-46BC) 

French national hero who united Celtic tribes against Romans.

Cleopatra (69BC-30BC) 

Last pharaoh of Egypt.

Nero (37- 68) 

Roman Emperor.

Hermann (17BC-21AD) 

German national hero who united Germanic tribes against Romans.

Xiahou Dun (… AD - 220 AD) 

Chinese hero.

Hadrian (76- 138) 

Roman Emperor.

Constantine I (272- 337) 

First Roman Emperor to be a christian.

Theodosius I (347-395) 

Last Roman Emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire.

Alaric I (375-410) 

Visigoths king who sacked Rome. 

Attila (406- 453) 

Mongolian king of the Huns who invaded Europe.

Justinian I (482-565) 

Eastern Roman Emperor who made Constantinople beautiful.

Abu al-Abbas (721-754) 

First caliph of the Abbasid caliphate.

Roland (738-778) 

Legendary person associated with Charlemagne.

Charlemagne ( 742-814) 

French king who became the father of Europe.

Basil I, the Macedonian (811-886) 

Eric Bloodaxe (886 -954) 

Viking king and raider.

Erik The Red ( 950-1003) 

Outlaw Viking from Norway. 

Basil II The Bulgar Slayer ( 958-1025) 
Byzantine Emperor from the Macedonia.

Henry I (1069-1135) 

King of England who made money out of sticks.

Yue Fei (1103-1142) 

Chinese folk hero known for his integrity, patriotism, and loyalty.

Saladin (1137-1193) 

Egyptian Sultan who captured Jerusalem. 

Richard I The Lionheart (1157-1199) 

English crusader king.

Genghis Khan (1160-1227) 

Mongolian king.

Frederick II (1194-1250) 
Holy Roman Emperor.

William Wallace (1280-1314) 

Scottish freedom fighter.

Mehmet II “the Conqueror” (1432 -1481) 

Osman I, Mehmet II, János Hunyadi, Szeklers , Dracula, Suleiman I, Battle of Mohács, John Zápolya, Mimar Sinan

Yemelyan Pugachev (1742-1775) 
Cossack warrior. 

Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) 

German dictator.

Che Guevara (1928- 1967) 

Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist and a major figure of the Cuban Revolution.

2100AD->9000AD Joe Ova

Fat man, new money, nuclear batteries, nano-beads, robot body, traveled back to the past, man in love with a robot, too poor to enter Heaven Inc., Dr. Joe Ova

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->1421
Caligula, Eleanor of Aquataine, Henry II, John, King of England, John of Gaunt, Joan of Arc, Henry VI,

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