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1 The Beginnings of Cultivation 1

2 Primitive Neolithic Civilisations 7

3 Sumeria,Early Egypt and Writing 14

4 Primitive Nomadic Peoples 19

5 The First Sea-going Peoples 24

6 Egypt,Babylon and Assyria 30

7 The Primitive Aryans 37

8 The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I 43

9 The Early History of the Jews 49

10 Priests and Prophets in Judea 56

11 The Greeks 61

12 The Wars of the Greeks and Persians 67

13 The Splendour of Greece 72

14 The Empire of Alexander the Great 76

15 The Museum and Library at Alexandria 81

16 The Life of Gautama Buddha 87

17 King Asoka 94

18 Confucius and Lao Tse 97

19 Rome Comes into History 103

20 Rome and Carthage 109

21 The Growth of the Roman Empire 115

22 Between Rome and China 127

23 The Common Man's Life Under the Early Roman Empire 133

24 Religious Developments under the Roman Empire 141

25 The Teaching of Jesus 149

26 The Development of Doctrinal Christianity 157

27 The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West 162

28 The Huns and the End of the Western Empire 168

29 The Bazantine and Sassanid Empires 175

30 The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China 181

31 Muhammad and Islam 184

32 The Great Days of the Arabs 189

33 The Development of Latin Christendom 195

34 The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion 205

35 Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism 216

36 The Mongol Conquests 226

37 The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans 233

38 The Reformation of the Latin Church 243

39 The Emperor Charles V 248

40 The Age of Political Experiments,of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republi-canism in Europe 258

41 The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas 271

42 The American War of Independence 278

43 The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France 285

44 The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon 295

45 The Development of Material knowledge 301

46 The Industrial Revolution 312

47 The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas 318

48 The Expansion of the United States 331

49 The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe 341

50 The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway 344

51 European Aggression in Asia and the Rise of Japan 352

52 The British Empire in 1914 359

53 The Age of Armament in Europe and the Great War of 1914-1918 362

54 The New Order in Russia 369

55 The League of Nations 379

56 The Failure of the League of Nations 387

57 The Second World War 401