CHAPTER Ⅰ AFGHANISTAN-THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 1
CHAPTER Ⅱ PREHISTORY AND EARLY HISTORY IN EGYPT AND THE NEAR EAST 17
CHAPTER Ⅲ THE MEDES AND PERSIANS CONQUER THE IRANIAN PLATEAU 33
CHAPTER Ⅳ CYRUS THE GREAT FOUNDS THE PERSIAN EMPIRE 43
CHAPTER Ⅴ ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERS THE PERSIAN EMPIRE 58
CHAPTER Ⅵ THE SELEUCID DYNASTY AND THE RISE OF PARTHIA 71
CHAPTER Ⅶ THE KINGDOM OF BACTRIA 88
CHAPTER Ⅷ ROME，PARTHIA AND THE KUSHAN DYNASTY 103
CHAPTER Ⅸ THE SASANIAN DYNASTY，ROME AND THE WHITE HUNS 124
CHAPTER Ⅹ THE REIGN OF NOSHIRWAN，FOLLOWED BY THE DECLINE OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE 141
CHAPTER Ⅺ ARAB CONQUESTS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND AFGHANISTAN 157
CHAPTER Ⅻ THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE ABBASID DYNASTY AND ITS DECAY 171
CHAPTER ⅩⅢ THE DYNASTY OF GHAZNI 186
CHAPTER ⅩⅣ THE SELJUK AND THE GHURID DYNASTIES 203
CHAPTER ⅩⅤ THE MONGOL CATACLYSM 218
CHAPTER ⅩⅥ THE IL-KHANS 234
CHAPTER ⅩⅦ TAMERLANE 252
CHAPTER ⅩⅧ THE RENAISSANCE OF ART UNDER THE TIMURID PRINCES 267
CHAPTER ⅩⅨ BABER FOUNDS THE MOGHUL EMPIRE OF INDIA 276
CHAPTER ⅩⅩ AFGHANISTAN AND THE EMPERORS HUMAYUN AND AKBAR 296
CHAPTER ⅩⅪ AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE LATER MOGHUL EMPERORS 311
CHAPTER ⅩⅫ NADIR SHAH RECOVERS THE LOST PROVINCES OF PERSIA 325
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅢ NADIR SHAH-HIS CONQUESTS AND DEATH 339
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅣ AHMAD SHAH FOUNDS THE KINGDOM OF AFGHANISTAN 351
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅤ TIMUR SHAH AND ZAMAN SHAH 368
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅥ THE DOWNFALL OF THE SADOZAI DYNASTY 383
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅦ DOST MUHAMMAD BECOMES AMIR OF KABUL 392
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅧ THE MISSION OF BURNES AND THE SIEGE OF HERAT 400