Spain becomes a Bourbon Power. Rise of Russia and Prussia. Partition of Poland between Russia, Prussia and Austria. Further disintegration of German Empire. British dominion in India and North America. Independence of United States. ---------------------------------------------------------------- France predominant under Napoleon. Rise of South American States. Establishment of British India. Italy independent. Egypt, Greece, and Balkan States freed from Turkey. Foundation of German Empire. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Independence of Norway (1905). ---------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------+ | CONTEMPORARY FIGURES IN HISTORY | +------+------------------------------------+ | TIME | | | B.C. | | +------+--------------+---------------------+ | 500 |India |Buddha | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |China |Confucious | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Persia |Darius | | | |Xerxes | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Greece |Æschylus | | | |Themistocles | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Rome |Tarquin the Proud | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Judah |Haggai | | | |Zechariah | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 450 |Persia |Artaxerxes | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Greece |Socrates | | | |Plato | | | |Pericles | | | |Herodotus | | | |Thucydides | | | |Sophocles | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Judah |Nehemiah | | | |Ezra | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 400 |Greece |Euripides | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 350 |Greece |Aristotle | | | |Demosthenes | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Macedon |Philip | | | |Alexander | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 200 |Rome |Hannibal | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Judah |Judas Maccabæus | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 50 |Rome |Julius Cæsar |