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A Short History of the World

by H. G. Wells

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  1. 1I — The World in Space
  2. 2II — The World in Time
  3. 3III — The Beginnings of Life
  4. 4IV — The Age of Fishes
  5. 5V — The Age of the Coal Swamps
  6. 6VI — The Age of Reptiles
  7. 7VII — The First Birds and the First Mammals
  8. 8VIII — The Age of Mammals
  9. 9IX — Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men
  10. 10X — The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man
  11. 11XI — The First True Men
  12. 12XII — Primitive Thought
  13. 13XIII — The Beginnings of Cultivation
  14. 14XIV — Primitive Neolithic Civilizations
  15. 15XV — Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing
  16. 16XVI — Primitive Nomadic Peoples
  17. 17XVII — The First Seagoing Peoples
  18. 18XVIII — Egypt, Babylon and Assyria
  19. 19XIX — The Primitive Aryans
  20. 20XX — The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I
  21. 21XXI — The Early History of the Jews
  22. 22XXII — Priests and Prophets in Judea
  23. 23XXIII — The Greeks
  24. 24XXIV — The Wars of the Greeks and Persians
  25. 25XXV — The Splendour of Greece
  26. 26XXVI — The Empire of Alexander the Great
  27. 27XXVII — The Museum and Library at Alexandria
  28. 28XXVIII — The Life of Gautama Buddha
  29. 29XXIX — King Asoka
  30. 30XXX — Confucius and Lao Tse
  31. 31XXXI — Rome Comes Into History
  32. 32XXXII — Rome and Carthage
  33. 33XXXIII — The Growth of the Roman Empire
  34. 34XXXIV — Between Rome and China
  35. 35XXXV — The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire
  36. 36XXXVI — Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire
  37. 37XXXVII — The Teaching of Jesus
  38. 38XXXVIII — The Development of Doctrinal Christianity
  39. 39XXXIX — The Barbarians Break the Empire Into East and West
  40. 40XL — The Huns and the End of the Western Empire
  41. 41XLI — The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
  42. 42XLII — The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China
  43. 43XLIII — Muhammad and Islam
  44. 44XLIV — The Great Days of the Arabs
  45. 45XLV — The Development of Latin Christendom
  46. 46XLVI — The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion
  47. 47XLVII — Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism
  48. 48XLVIII — The Mongol Conquests
  49. 49XLIX — The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans
  50. 50L — The Reformation of the Latin Church
  51. 51Li — The Emperor Charles V
  52. 52LII — The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parli…
  53. 53LIII — The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas
  54. 54LIV — The American War of Independence
  55. 55LV — The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France
  56. 56LVI — The Uneasy Peace in Europe That Followed the Fall of Napoleon
  57. 57LVII — The Development of Material Knowledge
  58. 58LVIII — The Industrial Revolution
  59. 59LIX — The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas
  60. 60LX — The Expansion of the United States
  61. 61LXI — The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe
  62. 62LXII — The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway
  63. 63LXIII — European Aggression in Asia and the Rise of Japan
  64. 64LXIV — The British Empire in 1914
  65. 65LXV — The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18
  66. 66LXVI — The Revolution and Famine in Russia
  67. 67LXVII — The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World

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