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The Arabs never ventured beyond Sofala in their trade and conquest along the East African coast due to the changing directions of the monsoon winds in Mozambique, which necessitated their return journey home.

The Chinese created Malaysia by setting up the port of Malacca that became the principle port for spice and porcelain. Malaysia grew out of Malacca.

I have never been so excited with the first chapter of a book as I have been by this particular book. Every single page I read I am reminded that the Chinese were the original super power.

The stage is set.

The Growing Stone

The Artist at Work

The Guest

The Silent Men

The Battle of Waterloo is on!

The King James Bible gets to America and becomes the guiding text for Puritan America.

The final version of King James Bible is made and ready for the printers.

The Gunpowder Plot, orchestrated by Guy Fawkes and his accomplices on November 5, 1605, disrupted the production of the King James Bible. Lancelot Andrewes, the "Interpreter General" of the project, was scheduled to be present in Parliament on that fateful day alongside King James and other Members of Parliament. Had the Gunpowder Plot succeeded, the King James Bible might never have been brought to fruition

15 rules for translating the Bible from Hebrew and Greek sources are set.

King James orders the making of a new Bible to the only translation to be used in churches. A group of 54 translators are selected and divided into six committees known as companies each with a director.

Kind James of Scotland takes over the reigns from Queen Elizabeth as King of Scotland, England, Ireland and France. He gets to London from his castle in Edinburgh to find a city ravaged with the plague.

Emperor Franz Joseph I takes over