INTRODUCTION 1
1．THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME 4
2．THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS 7
3．NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES 11
4．THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE 15
5．THE AGE OF REPTILES 19
6．THE AGE OF MAMMALS 26
7．THE ANCESTRY OF MAN 31
8．THE NEANDERTHAL MEN,AN EXTINCT RACE 36
9．THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PAL？OLITHIC MEN,THE FIRST TRUE MEN 42
10．NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE 48
11．EARLY THOUGHT 58
12．THE RACES OF MANKIND 67
13．THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND 73
14．THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS 83
15．SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES 99
16．WRITING 108
17．GODS AND STARS,PRIESTS AND KINGS 114
18．SERFS,SLAVES,SOCIAL CLASSES,AND FREE INDIVIDUALS 126
19．THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS 141
20．THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES 155
21．THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS 167
22．GREEKTHOUGHT IN RELATION TO HUMAN SOCIETY 194
23．THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT 209
24．SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA 231
25．THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM 239
26．THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS 256
27．FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD-EMPEROR IN ROME 288
28．THE C？SARS BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE OLD WORLD 308
29．THE BEGINNINGS,THE RISE,AND THE DIⅥSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY 337
30．SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA 370
31．MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM 393
32．CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES 421
33．THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS 464
34．THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 486
35．PRINCES,PARLIAMENTS,AND POWERS 535
36．THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICAAND FR ANCE 579
37．THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 628
38．THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE ETEENTH CENTURY. 649
39．THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 1914 705
40．THE NEXT STAGE OF HISTORY 767
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 780