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Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The Story of Mankind
The Story of Mankind
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
LIST OF COLORED PICTURES
LIST OF HALF TONE PICTURES
LIST OF PICTURES AND ANIMATED MAPS
THE SETTING OF THE STAGE
OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS
PREHISTORIC MAN
HIEROGLYPHICS
THE NILE VALLEY
THE STORY OF EGYPT
MESOPOTAMIA
THE SUMERIANS
MOSES
THE PHŒNICIANS
THE INDO-EUROPEANS
THE ÆGEAN SEA
THE GREEKS
THE GREEK CITIES
GREEK SELF-GOVERNMENT
GREEK LIFE
THE GREEK THEATRE
THE PERSIAN WARS
ATHENS vs. SPARTA
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
A SUMMARY
ROME AND CARTHAGE
THE RISE OF ROME
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
JOSHUA OF NAZARETH
THE FALL OF ROME
RISE OF THE CHURCH
MOHAMMED
CHARLEMAGNE
THE NORSEMEN
FEUDALISM
CHIVALRY
POPE vs. EMPEROR
THE CRUSADES
THE MEDIÆVAL CITY
MEDIÆVAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
THE MEDIÆVAL WORLD
MEDIÆVAL TRADE
THE RENAISSANCE
THE AGE OF EXPRESSION
THE GREAT DISCOVERIES
BUDDHA AND CONFUCIUS
THE REFORMATION
RELIGIOUS WARFARE
THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
THE BALANCE OF POWER
THE RISE OF RUSSIA
RUSSIA vs. SWEDEN
THE RISE OF PRUSSIA
THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
NAPOLEON
THE HOLY ALLIANCE
THE GREAT REACTION
NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
THE AGE OF THE ENGINE
THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
EMANCIPATION
THE AGE OF SCIENCE
ART
COLONIAL EXPANSION AND WAR
A NEW WORLD
AS IT EVER SHALL BE
AN ANIMATED CHRONOLOGY
CONCERNING THE PICTURES
AN HISTORICAL READING LIST FOR CHILDREN
The Days Before History
The Dawn of History
Stories of Greece and Rome
Christianity
Stories of Legend and Chivalry
Adventurers in New Worlds
The World’s Progress in Invention—Art—Music
The Democracy of To-Day
Illustrated Histories in French
INDEX
