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THE GREAT EVENTS
BY
FAMOUS HISTORIANS
A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS
NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL
ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
With a staff of specialists
VOLUME 1
The National Alumni
COPYRIGHT, 1905,
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME I
THE GREAT EVENTS
BY
FAMOUS HISTORIANS
General Introduction
AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE
TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF
THE GREAT EVENTS
A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE PROGRESS OF THE HUMAN RACE, ITS ADVANCE IN KNOWLEDGE AND CIVILIZATION, AND THE BROAD WORLD MOVEMENTS WHICH HAVE SHAPED ITS DESTINY
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
CONTINUED THROUGH THE SUCCESSIVE VOLUMES AND COVERING THE SUCCESSIVE PERIODS OF
THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS
AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE
TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF
THE GREAT EVENTS
(FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE OVERTHROW OF THE PERSIANS)
CHARLES F. HORNE
DAWN OF CIVILIZATION
B.C. 5867[20]
G.C.C. MASPERO
COMPILATION OF THE EARLIEST CODE
B.C. 2250
HAMMURABI
THESEUS FOUNDS ATHENS
B.C. 1235
PLUTARCH
THE FORMATION OF THE CASTES IN INDIA
B.C. 1200
GUSTAVE LE BON[23] W.W. HUNTER
FALL OF TROY
B.C. 1184
GEORGE GROTE
ACCESSION OF SOLOMON
BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM
B.C. 1017
HENRY HART MILMAN
RISE AND FALL OF ASSYRIA
DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEH
B.C. 789
F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER
THE FOUNDATION OF ROME
B.C. 753
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR
PRINCE JIMMU FOUNDS JAPAN'S CAPITAL
B.C. 660
SIR EDWARD REED THE "NEHONGI"
THE FOUNDATION OF BUDDHISM
B.C. 623
THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS-DAVIDS
PYTHIAN GAMES AT DELPHI
B.C. 585
GEORGE GROTE
SOLON'S EARLY GREEK LEGISLATION
B.C. 594
GEORGE GROTE
CONQUESTS OF CYRUS THE GREAT
B.C. 538
GEORGE GROTE
RISE OF CONFUCIUS, THE CHINESE SAGE
B.C. 550
R.K. DOUGLAS
ROME ESTABLISHED AS A REPUBLIC
INSTITUTION OF TRIBUNES
B.C. 510-494
HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL
THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
B.C. 490
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
INVASION OF GREECE BY PERSIANS UNDER XERXES
DEFENCE OF THERMOPYLÆ
B.C. 480
HERODOTUS
CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
EMBRACING THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS VOLUME
B.C. 5867—B.C. 451
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
EMBRACING THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS VOLUME
B.C. 5867—B.C. 451
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
END OF VOLUME I
THE ROSETTA STONE
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