Short History of the World by Herbert Wells
Table of Content
7 The First Birds and the First Mammals
10 The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man
13 The Beginnings of Cultivation
14 Primitive Neolithic Civilizations
15 Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing
17 The First Sea-going Peoples
20 The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I
21 The Early History of the Jews
22 Priests and Prophets in Judea
24 The Wars of the Greeks and Persians
26 The Empire of Alexander the Great
27 The Museum and Library at Alexandria
33 The Growth of the Roman Empire
35 The Common Man's Life under the Early Roman Empire
36 Religious Developments under the Roman Empire
38 The Development of Doctrinal Christianity
39 The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West
40 The Huns and the End of the Western Empire
41 The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
42 The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China
44 The Great Days of the Arabs
45 The Development of Latin Christendom
46 The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion
47 Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism
49 The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans
50 The Reformation of the Latin Church
52 The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe
53 The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas
54 The American War of Independence
55 The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France
56 The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon
57 The Development of Material Knowledge
59 The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas
60 The Expansion of the United States
61 The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe
62 The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway
63 European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan
65 The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914–18
66 The Revolution and Famine in Russia