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I. The World in Space

II. The World in Time

III. The Beginnings of Life

IV. The Age of Fishes

V. The Age of the Coal Swamps

VI. The Age of Reptiles

VII. The First Birds and the First Mammals

VIII. The Age of Mammals

IX. Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men

X. The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man

XI. The First True Men

XII. Primitive Thought

XIII. The Beginnings of Cultivation

XIV. Primitive Neolithic Civilizations

XV. Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing

XVI. Primitive Nomadic Peoples

XVII. The First Seagoing Peoples

XVIII. Egypt, Babylon and Assyria

XIX. The Primitive Aryans

XX. The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I

XXI. The Early History of the Jews

XXII. Priests and Prophets in Judea

XXIII. The Greeks

XXIV. The Wars of the Greeks and Persians

XXV. The Splendour of Greece

XXVI. The Empire of Alexander the Great

XXVII. The Museum and Library at Alexandria

XXVIII. The Life of Gautama Buddha

XXIX. King Asoka

XXX. Confucius and Lao Tse

XXXI. Rome Comes Into History

XXXII. Rome and Carthage

XXXIII. The Growth of the Roman Empire

XXXIV. Between Rome and China

XXXV. The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire

XXXVI. Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire

XXXVII. The Teaching of Jesus

XXXVIII. The Development of Doctrinal Christianity

XXXIX. The Barbarians Break the Empire Into East and West

XL. The Huns and the End of the Western Empire

XLI. The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires

XLII. The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China

XLIII. Muhammad and Islam

XLIV. The Great Days of the Arabs

XLV. The Development of Latin Christendom

XLVI. The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion

XLVII. Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism

XLVIII. The Mongol Conquests

XLIX. The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans

L. The Reformation of the Latin Church

LI. The Emperor Charles V

LII. The Age of Political Experiments; Of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe

LIII. The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas

LIV. The American War of Independence

LV. The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France

LVI. The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon

LVII. The Development of Material Knowledge

LVIII. The Industrial Revolution

LIX. The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas

LX. The Expansion of the United States

LXI. The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe

LXII. The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway

LXIII. European Aggression in Asia and the Rise of Japan

LXIV. The British Empire in 1914

LXV. The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18

LXVI. The Revolution and Famine in Russia

LXVII. The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World

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