Grab your passport and join the editors of TIME for ajourney around the world in 160 pages. Great Places of History offers a refreshing and illumunating new perspective on the story of civilization one thats oriented to geography rather than biography. In these pages TIME lists the 100 most influential sites in history - the places where discoveries were made and revolutions were born where cultures clashed and crucialbattles were fought where radical ideas took flight and great artists worked their magic.