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