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• Resource Type: Book
• ISBN: 1596051787
• Print Status: In Print
• Chapters: 76
• Pages: 556
• Suggested Grade Level: 4th - 8th
• Historical Setting: 500,000 BC - 2000
• Subjects: History
• Publisher: Cosimo
• Copyright: 2005
• Written: 1921

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• 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