1. THE SETTING OF THE STAGE
2. OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS
3. PREHlSTORIC MAN BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS FOR HIMSELF
4. THE EGYPTIANS INVENT THE ART OF WRITlNG AND THE RECORD OF
HISTORY BEGINS
5. THE BEGINNlNG OF ClVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE
6. THE RISE AND FALL OF EGYPT
7. MESOPOTAMIA-THE SECOND CENTRE OF EASTERN CIVILlSATION
8. THE SUMERlAN NAIL WRITERS,WHOSE CLAY TANLETS TELL US THE STORY OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA,THE GREAT SEMlTIC MELTlNG-POT
9. THE STORY OF MOSES,THE LEADER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
10. THE PHCENICIANS,WHO GAVE US OUR ALPHANET
11. THE INDO-EUROPEAN PERSIANS CONQUER THE SEMITEC AND THE EGYPTlAN WORLD
l2. THE PEOPLE OF THE EGEAN SEA CARRIED THE CIVILISATION OF OLD ASlA INTO THE WILDERNESS OF EUROPE
l3. MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE OF THE HELLENES WAS TAKlNG POSSESSION OF GREECE
14. THE GREEK CITlES THAT WERE REALLY STATES
l5. THE GREEKS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO TRY THE DIFFICULT EXPERI MENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
l6. HOW THE GREEKS LIVED
l7. THE ORIGlNS OF THE THEATRE,THE FlRST FORM OF PUBLlC AMUSEMENT
18. HOW THE GREEKS DEFENDED EUROPE AGAlNST AN ASIATIC INVASlON AND DROVE THE PERSIANS BACK ACROSS THE AEGEAN SEA
l9. HOW ATHENS AND SPARTA FOUGHT A LONG AND DISASTROUS WAR FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF GREECE
20. ALEXANDER THE MACEDONlAN ESTANLISHES A GREEK WORLD-EMPIRE,AND WHAT BECAME OF THIS HIGH AMBITION
2l. A SHORT SUMMANY OF CHAPTERS 1 TO 20
22. THE SEMITIC COLONY OF CANTHAGE ON THE NORTHERN COAST OF AFRICA AND THE IDO-EUROPEAN CITY OF ROME ON THE WEET COAST OF ITALY FOUGHT EACH OTHER FOR THE POSSESSION OF THE WESTERN MEDlTERANEAN AND CARTHAGE WAS DESTROYED
23. HOW ROME HAPENED
24. How THE REPUBLIC OF ROME, AFTER CENTURIES OF UNREST AND REVOLUTION,BECME AN EMPIRE
25. THE STORY OF JOSHUA OF NAZANETH,WHOM THE GREEKS CALLED JESUS
26. THE TWlLIGHT 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, AND WHOSE FOLLOWERS ALMOST CONQUERED THE ENTIRE KNOWN WORLD FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF ALLAH, THE "ONLY TRUE GOD
29. HOW CHARLEMAGNE,THE KING OF THE FRANKS,CAME TO BEAR THE TITLE OF EMPEROR AND TRIED TO REVIVE THE OLD IDEAL OF WORLDEMPlRE
30. WHY THE PEOPLE OF THE TENTH CENTURY PRAYED THE LORD TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE FURY OF THE NORSEMEN
3l. HOW CENTRAL EUROPE, ATTACKED FROM THREE SIDES, BECAME AN ARMED CAMP AND WHY EUROPE WOULD HAVE PERISHED WITHOUT THOSE PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO WERE PART OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
32. CHIVALRY
33. Trm STRANGE DOUBLE LOYALTY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES.AND HOW IT LED ro ENDLESS QUANRELS BETWEEN THE POPES AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS
34. BUT ALL TtESE DIFFERENT QUANRELS WERE FORGOTTEN WHEN THE TURKS TooK THE HOLY LAND, DESECRAfED THE HOLY PLACES AND lNTERFERED SERlOUSLY WlTH THE TRADE FROM EAST TO WEST. EUROPE WENT CRUSADING
35. WHY THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES SAID THAT"CITY AlR IS FREE AlR"
36. HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE ClTIES ASSRTED THEIR RIGHT TO BE HEARD IN THE ROYAL COUNCILS OF THElR COUNTRY
37. WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES THOUGHT OF THE WORLD IN WHlCH THEY HAPPENED TO LIVE
38. HOW THE CRUSADES ONCE MORE MADE THE MEDITERRANEAN A BUSY CENTRE OF TRADE AND HOW Tffe CITIES OF THE ITALIAN PENlNSULA BECAME THE GREAT DISTRIBUTING CENTRE FOR THE COMMERCE WlTH ASIA AND AFRICA
39. PEOPLE ONCE MORE DARD TO BE HAPPY JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE ALIVE. THEY TRlED TO SAVE THE REMAlNS OF THE OLDER AND MORE AGREEABLE CIVILISATION OF ROME AND GREECE AND THEY WERE SO PROUD OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS THAT THEY SPOKE OF A " RENAESSANCE" OR RE-BIRTH OF CIVILISATloN.
40. THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO FEEL THE NEED OF GIVlNG EXPRESSION TO THEIR NEWLY DISCOVERED JOY OF LIVlNG. THEY EXPRESSED THElR HAPPINESS IN POETRY AND IN SCULPTURE AND IN ARCHlTECTURE AND PAINT1NG,AND IN THE BOOKS THEY PRINTED
41. BUT NOW THAT PEOPLE HAD BROKEN THROUGH THE BONDS OF THEIR NANROW MEDIAEVAL LIMlTATIONS,THEY HAD TO HAVE MORE ROOM FOR THEIR WANDERINGS. THE EUROPEAN WORLD HAD GRON TOO SMALL FOR THElR AMBITIONS. IT WAS THE TIME OF THE GREAT VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
42. CONCERNING BUDDHA AND CONFUCIUS
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