THE 100 A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY Michael H. Hartu, 12. 13, Lu. 15, 16 20, 23, CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION INTRODUCTION HISTORICAL CHART Muhammad Isaac Newton Jesus Christ Buddha Confucius St Paul Teai Lan Johann Cutenberg Christopher Columbus Albert Einstein Louis Pasteur Galileo Galilei Aristotle Euclid Moses Charles Darwin Shir Huang Ti Augustus Caesar Nicolaus Copernicus Antoine Laurent Laveisier Constantine the Great James Wat: Michael Faraday ul us1 = MUHAMMAD 70-6 My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most fluential persons may surprise some readers and may be question- ed by others, but he was the only man in history who was ely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origios, Muhammad founded and promulgated tive political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his dea influence i still powerful and pervasive, ‘The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, hi cultured or golitically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, southern was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, 3