3.PREHISTORIC MAN BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS FOR HIMSELF
4.THE EGYPTIANS INVENT THE ART OF WRITING AND THE RECORD OF HISTORY BEGINS
5.THE BEGINNING OF CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE
6.THE RISE AND FALL OF EGYPT
7.MESOPOTAMIA——THE SECOND CENTRE OF EASTERN CIVILISATION
8.THE SUMERIAN NAIL WRITERS,WHOSE CLAY TABLETS TELL US THE STORY OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA,THE GREAT SEMITIC MELTING-POT
9.THE STORY OF MOSES,THE LEADER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
10.THE PHCENICIANS,WHo GAVE Us OUR ALPHABET
11.THE INDO-EUROPEAN PERSIANS CONQUER THE SEMITIC AND THE EGYPTIAN WORLD
12.THE PEOPLE OF THE JEGEAN SEA CARRIED THE CIVILISATION OF OLD ASIAINTO THE WILDERNESS OF EUROPE
13.MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE OF THE HELLENES WAS TAKINGPOSSESSION OF GREECE
14.THE GREEK CITIES THAT WERE REALLY STATES
15.THE GREEKS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO TRY THE DIFFICULT EXPERI MENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
16.HOW THE GREEKS LIVED
17.THE ORIGINS OF THE THEATRE,THE FIRST FORM OF PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
18.HOW THE GREEKS DEFENDED EUROPE AGAINST AN ASIATIC INVASION ANDROVE THE PERSIANS BACK ACROSS THE EGEAN SEA
19.HOW ATHENS AND SPARTA FOUGHT A LONG AND DISASTROUS WAR FORTHE LEADERSHIP OF GREECE
20.ALEXANDER THE MACEDONIAN ESTABLISHES A GREEK WORLD-EMPIRE,AND WHAT BECAME OF THIS HIGH AMBITION
21.A SHORT SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS 1 TO 20
22.THE SEMITIC COLONY OF CARTHAGE.ON THE NORTHERN COAST OFAFRICA AND THE INDO-EUROPEAN CITY OF ROME ON THE WEST COAST OF ITALY FOUGHT EACH OTHER FOR THE POSSESSION OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND CARTHAGE WAS DESTROYED
23.How ROME HAPPENED
24.HOW THE REPUBLIC OF ROME,AFTER CENTURIES OF UNREST AND REVOLUTION,BECAME AN EMPIRE
25.THE STORY OF JOSHUA OF NAZARETH,WHOM THE GREEKS CALLEDJEsus
26.THE TWILIGHT OF ROME
27.HOW ROME BECAME THE CENTRE OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
28.AHMED,THE CAMEL DRIVER,WHo BECAME THE PROPHET OF THE ARABIAN DESERT, AND WHOSE FOLLOWERS ALMOST CONQUERED THE ENTIRE KNOWN WORLD FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF ALLAH,THE "ONLYTRUE GOD
29.How CHARLEMAGNE,THE KING OF THE FRANKS,CAME TO BEAR THE TITLE OF EMPEROR AND TRIED TO REVIVE THE OLD IDEAL OF WORLDEMPIRE
30.WHY THE PEOPLE OF THE TENTH CENTURY PRAYED THE LORD TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE FURY OF THE NORSEMEN
31.How CENTRAL EUROPE, ATTACKED FROM THREE SIDES, BECAME ANARMED CAMP AND WHY EUROPE WOULD HAVE PERISHED WITHOUT THOSE PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO WERE PART OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
32.CHIVALRY
33.THE STRANGE DOUBLE LOYALTY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND HOW IT LED TO ENDLESS QUARRELS BETWEEN THE POPES ANTHE HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS
34.BUT ALL THESE DIFFERENT QUARRELS WERE FORGOTTEN WHEN THETURKS TOOK THE HOLY LAND, DESECRATED THE HOLY PLACES ANEINTERFERED SERIOUSLY WITH THE TRADE FROM EAST TO WEST.EUROPE WENT CRUSADING
35.WHY THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES SAID THAT "CITY AIR IS FREEAIR
36.HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE CITIES ASSERTED THEIR RIGHT TO BE HEARDIN THE ROYAL COUNCILS OF THEIR COUNTRY
37.WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES THOUGHT OF THE WORLD INWHICH THEY HAPPENED TO LIVE
38.HOW THE CRUSADES ONCE MORE MADE THE MEDITERRANEAN A BUSYCENTRE OF TRADE AND HOW THE CITIES OF THE ITALIAN PENINSULABECAME THE GREAT DISTRIBUTING CENTRE FOR THE COMMERCEWITH ASIA AND AFRICA
39.PEOPLE ONCE MORE DARED TO BE HAPPY JUST BECAUSE THEY WEREALIVE.THEY TRIED TO SAVE THE REMAINS OF THE OLDER AND MOREAGREEABLE CIVILISATION OF ROME AND GREECE AND THEY WERE SOPROUD OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS THAT THEY SPOKE OF A "RENAIS SANCE" OR RE-BIRTH OF CIVILISATION
40.THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO FEEL THE NEED OF GIVING EXPRESSION TOTHEIR NEWLY DISCOVERED JoY OF LIVING.THEY EXPRESSED THEIRHAPPINESS IN POETRY AND IN SCULPTURE AND IN ARCHITECTUREAND PAINTING, AND IN THE BOOKS THEY PRINTED
41.BUT NOW THAT PEOPLE HAD BROKEN THROUGH THE BONDS OF THEIRNARROW MEDI,LIEVAL LIMITATIONS,THEY HAD TO HAVE MORE ROOMFOR THEIR WANDERINGS THE EUROPEAN WORLD HAD GROWN Too SMALL FOR THEIR AMBITIONS.IT WAS THE TIME OF THE GREAT VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
42.CONCERNING BUDDHA AND CONFUCIUS
43.THE PROGRESS OF THE HUMAN RAcE Is BEST COMPARED TO A GIGAN TIC PENDULUM WHICH FoREVER SWINGS FoRWARD AND BACKWARD
THE RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE AND THE ARTISTIC AND LITERARY EH THUSIASM OF THE RENAISSANCE WERE FOLLOWED BY THE ARTISTI
AND LITERARY INDIFFERENCE AND THE RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM O THE REFoRMATIoN
44 THE AGE OF THE GREAT RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES
45.How THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE“DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS-AND THE LESS DIVINE BUT MORE REASONABLE“RIGHT OF PARLIAMENT
ENDEDDISASTROUSLYFORKINGCHARLESl
46.IN FRANCE.ON THE OTHER HAND.THE“DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS”CONTINUED WITH GREATER PoMP AND SPLENDOR THAN EVER BEFORE
AND THE AMBITION OF THE RULER WAS ONLY TEMPERED BY THE NEWLY INVENTEDLAWOFTHE“BALANCEOFPOWER
47.THE STORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS MUSCOVITE EMPIRE WHICH SUD DENLY BURST UPON THE GRAND POLITICAL STAGE OF EUROPE 48.RUSSIA AND SWEDEN FIGHT MANY WARs TO DECIDE WHO SHALL BE THE LEADING POWER OF NORTH.EASTERN EUROPE
49.THE EXTRAORDINARY RISE OF A LITTLE STATE IN A DREARY PART OF NORTHERN GERMANY.CALLED PRUSSIA
50.How THE NEwLY FOUNDED NATIONAL OR DYNASTIC STATES OF EuROPE TRIED TO MAKE THEMSELVES RICH AND WHAT WAS MEANT BY THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM
5 1.AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE HEARD STRANGE REPORTS OF SOMETHING WHICH HAD HAPPENED IN THE WILDER
NESS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT.THE DESCENDANTS OFTHE MEN WHO HAD PUNISHED KING CHARLES FOR HIS INSISTENCE
UPON HIS。DIVINE RIGHTS”ADDED A NEW CHAPTER TO THE OLDSTORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SELFGOVERNMENT
52.THE GREAT FRENCH REVOLUTION PROCLAIMS THE PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY,FRATERNITY AND EQUALITY UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE
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