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4 pages tagged human-rights.

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Chapter 14: The Reign of the Emperor Ashoka — World History 101

The Maurya emperor Ashoka conquers Kalinga, repents the carnage, converts to Buddhism, and reorients his empire around dharma and tolerance — broadcasting it on rock pillars across India.
Chapter 38: The French Revolution and Its Aftermath — World History 101

How the 1789 storming of the Bastille produced the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Reign of Terror, and ultimately the imperial dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Chapter 53: The United Nations and Human Rights — World History 101

How the trauma of World War II produced the UN, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and a new vocabulary for genocide.
World History 101 — World History 101

A rapid-fire survey of human civilization from the first anatomically modern humans to the present — 64 chapters, each devoted to one civilization, empire, movement, or turning point.