The Story of Mankind

Chapters

• 1 The Setting of the Stage
• 2 Our Earliest Ancestors
• 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
• 9 The Story of Moses, the Leader of the Jewish People
• 10 The Phoenicians, Who Gave Us Our Alphabet
• 11 The Indo-European Persians Conquer the Semitic and the Egyptian World
• 12 The People of the Aegean Sea Carried the Civilisation of Old Asia Into the Wilderness of Europe
• 13 Meanwhile the Indo-European Tribe of the Hellenes Was Taking Possession of Greece
• 14 The Greek Cities That Were Really States
• 15 The Greeks Were the First People to Try the Difficult Experiment 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
• 19 How Athens and Sparta Fought a Long and Disastrous War
• 20 Alexander the Macedonian Establishes a Greek World-Empire
• 21 A Short Summary of Chapters 1 to 20
• 22 The Semitic Colony of Carthage on the Northern Coast of Africa
• 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 Called Jesus
• 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
• 29 How Charlemagne, the King of the Franks, Came to Bear the Title of Emperor
• 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 an Armed Camp
• 32 Chivalry
• 33 The Strange Double Loyalty of the People of the Middle Ages
• 34 But All These Different Quarrels Were Forgotten When the Turks Took the Holy Land
• 35 Why the People of the Middle Ages Said That City Air Is Free Air
• 36 How the People of the Cities Asserted Their Right to Be Heard in the Royal Councils of Their Country
• 37 What the People of the Middle Ages Thought of the World in Which They Happened to Live
• 38 How the Crusades Once More Made the Mediterranean a Busy Centre of Trade
• 39 People Once More Dared to Be Happy Just Because They Were Alive
• 40 The People Began to Feel the Need of Giving Expression to Their Newly Discovered Joy of Living
• 41 But Now That People Had Broken Through the Bonds of Their Narrow Medieval Limitations
• 42 Concerning Buddha and Confucius
• 43 The Progress of the Human Race is Best Compared to a Gigantic Pendulum
• 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
• 46 In France, on the Other Hand, the Divine Right of Kings Continued
• 47 The Story of the Mysterious Muscovite Empire
• 48 Russia and Sweden Fought Many Wars to Decide Who Shall Be the Leading Power
• 49 The Extraordinary Rise of a Little State in a Dreary Part of Northern Germany
• 50 How the Newly Founded National or Dynastic States of Europe Tried to Make Themselves Rich
• 51 At the End of the Eighteenth Century Europe Heard Strange Reports
• 52 The Great French Revolution Proclaims the Principles of Liberty
• 53 Napoleon
• 54 As Soon as Napoleon Had Been Sent to St. Helena
• 55 They Tried to Assure the World an Era of Undisturbed Peace
• 56 The Love of National Independence, However, Was Too Strong to Be Destroyed
• 57 But While the People of Europe Were Fighting for Their National Independence
• 58 The New Engines Were Very Expensive and Only People of Wealth Could Afford Them
• 59 The General Introduction of Machinery Did Not Bring About the Era of Happiness
• 60 But the World Had Undergone Another Change
• 61 A Chapter of Art
• 62 The Last Fifty Years
• 63 The Great War
• 64 As It Ever Shall Be
• 65 After Seven Years
• 66 The United States Comes of Age
• 67 The Axis Partners
• 68 Isolationism and Appeasement
• 69 The Atlantic Charter
• 70 Global War
• 71 The United Nations
• 72 A Turbulent Peace
• 73 An Old Order Gives Way
• 74 Spaceship Earth
• 75 The Earth as a Global Village
• 76 Approaching the Year 2000