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Tables of Contents for A Short History of the World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The World in Space
9
2
The World in Time
11
2
The Beginnings of Life
13
2
The Age of Fishes
15
3
The Age of the Coal Swamps
18
3
The Age of Reptiles
21
3
The First Birds and the First Mammals
24
3
The Age of Mammals
27
3
Monkeys, Apes, and Sub-Men
30
3
The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man
33
5
The First True Men
38
3
Primitive Thought
41
3
The Beginnings of Cultivation
44
4
Primitive Neolithic Civilisations
48
5
Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing
53
3
Primitive Nomadic Peoples
56
3
The First Sea-Going Peoples
59
4
Egypt, Babylon and Assyria
63
4
The Primitive Aryans
67
4
The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I
71
4
The Early History of the Jews
75
5
Priests and Prophets in Judea
80
3
The Greeks
83
4
The Wars of the Greeks and Persians
87
3
The Splendour of Greece
90
3
The Empire of Alexander the Great
93
3
The Museum and Library at Alexandria
96
4
The Life of Gautama Buddha
100
4
King Asoka
104
1
Confucius and Lao Tse
105
4
Rome comes into History
109
4
Rome and Carthage
113
4
The Growth of the Roman Empire
117
9
Between Rome and China
126
3
The Common Man's Life under the Early Roman Empire
129
5
Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire
134
5
The Teaching of Jesus
139
5
The Development of Doctrinal Christianity
144
3
The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West
147
4
The Huns and the End of the Western Empire
151
4
The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
155
4
The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China
159
2
Muhammad and Islam
161
3
The Great Days of the Arabs
164
4
The Development of Latin Christendom
168
8
The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion
176
7
Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism
183
7
The Mongol Conquests
190
5
The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans
195
7
The Reformation of the Latin Church
202
3
The Emperor Charles V
205
7
The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe
212
9
The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas
221
5
The American War of Independence
226
4
The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France
230
7
The Uneasy Peace in Europe that followed the Fall of Napoleon
237
4
The Development of Material Knowledge
241
7
The Industrial Revolution
248
3
The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas
251
9
The Expansion of the United States
260
7
The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe
267
2
The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway
269
5
European Aggression in Asia and the Rise of Japan
274
4
The British Empire in 1914
278
2
The Age of Armament in Europe and the Great War of 1914-18
280
5
The New Order in Russia
285
7
The League of Nations
292
4
The Failure of the League of Nations
296
11
The Crisis of Human Adaptation
307
4
Chronological Table
311