Nonfiction · 1921
The Story of Mankind
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Contents
- Note
- Foreword
- The Story of Mankind
- The Setting of the Stage
- Our Earliest Ancestors
- Prehistoric Man Begins to Make Things for Himself
- Hieroglyphics
- The Beginning of Civilisation in the Valley of the Nile
- The Rise and Fall of Egypt
- Mesopotamia—The Second Centre of Eastern Civilisation
- The Sumerian Nail Writers, Whose Clay Tablets Tell Us the Story of Assyria and Babylonia, the Great Semitic Melting-Pot
- The Story of Moses, the Leader of the Jewish People
- The Phoenicians Who Gave Us Our Alphabet
- The Indo-European Persians Conquer the Semitic and the Egyptian World
- The People of the Aegean Sea Carried the Civilisation of Old Asia Into the Wilderness of Europe
- Meanwhile the Indo-European Tribe of the Hellenes Was Taking Possession of Greece
- The Greek Cities That Were Really States
- The Greeks Were the First People to Try the Difficult Experiment of Self-Government
- How the Greeks Lived
- The Origins of the Theatre, the First Form of Public Amusement
- How the Greeks Defended Europe Against Asiatic Invasion and Drove the Persians Back Across the Aegean Sea
- How Athens and Sparta Fought a Long and Disastrous War for the Leadership of Greece
- Alexander the Macedonian Establishes a Greek World-Empire, and What Became of This High Ambition
- A Short Summary of Chapters 1 to 20
- Rome and Carthage
- How Rome Happened
- How the Republic of Rome After Centuries of Unrest and Revolution Became an Empire
- The Story of Joshua of Nazareth, Whom the Greeks Called Jesus
- The Twilight of Rome
- How Rome Became the Centre of the Christian World
- Mohammed
- Charlemagne
- Why the People of the Tenth Century Prayed the Lord to Protect Them from the Fury of the Norsemen
- Feudalism
- Chivalry
- Pope Vs. Emperor
- The Crusades
- Why the People of the Middle Ages Said That “City Air Is Free Air”
- How the People of the Cities Asserted Their Right to Be Heard in the Royal Councils of Their Country
- What the People of the Middle Ages Thought of the World in Which They Happened to Live
- Mediaeval Trade
- The Renaissance
- The Age of Expression
- The Great Discoveries
- Concerning Buddha and Confucius
- The Reformation
- The Age of the Great Religious Controversies
- The English Revolution
- The Balance of Power
- The Story of the Mysterious Moscovite Empire Which Suddenly Burst Upon the Grand Political Stage of Europe
- Russia and Sweden Fight Many Wars to Decide Who Shall Be the Leading Power of North-Eastern Europe
- The Extraordinary Rise of a Little State in a Dreary Part of Northern Germany, Called Prussia
- The Mercantile System
- The American Revolution
- The Great French Revolution Proclaims the Principles of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality Unto All the People of the Earth
- Napoleon
- The Holy Alliance
- The Great Reaction
- National Independence
- The Age of the Engine
- The Social Revolution
- Emancipation
- The Age of Science
- A Chapter of Art
- Colonial Expansion and War
- The Great War Which Was Really the Struggle for a New and Better World
- As It Ever Shall Be
- Concerning the Pictures
- An Historical Reading List for Children
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