This textbook is a module of the single cycle "World History for Schoolchildren". It serves as an organic continuation of the propaedeutic course "Clio's Stories" for elementary school, but is also designed for independent use by school and gymnasium students seeking to deepen their knowledge. Attention! Due to the increasing number of misunderstandings, the author is forced to emphasize that the textbook is used in the first year of teaching history. The textbook can also be used for self-education. The author urges teachers not to use the textbook in a “truncated” form, not to try to “improve” it, or to use it for teaching junior or senior schoolchildren. Carefully tuned specifically for the first year of studying history in secondary school, the methodological apparatus of the textbook completely excludes this kind of “innovation” and will not only not give the planned increase in the level of knowledge, but will also lead to its decline. The author asks teachers to seek advice personally from him and am ready to provide any assistance.