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Introduction
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE - THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME
CHAPTER TWO - THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS
§ 1. The First Living Things. § 2. How Old Is the World?
CHAPTER THREE - NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES
CHAPTER FOUR - THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE
§ 1. Life and Water. § 2. The Earliest Animals.
CHAPTER FIVE - THE AGE OF REPTILES
§ 1. The Age of Lowland Life. § 2. Flying Dragons. § 3. The First Birds. § 4. ...
CHAPTER SIX - THE AGE OF MAMMALS
§ 1. A New Age of Life. § 2. Tradition Comes into the World. § 3. An Age of ...
CHAPTER SEVEN - THE ANCESTRY OF MAN
§ 1. Man Descended from a Walking Ape. § 2. First Traces of Manlike Creatures. ...
CHAPTER EIGHT - THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE
§ 1. The World 50,000 Years Ago. § 2. The Daily Life of the First Men.§ 3. The ...
CHAPTER NINE - THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN
(Later Palæolithic Age)
CHAPTER TEN - NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE
§ 1. The Age of Cultivation Begins. § 2. Where Did the Neolithic Culture Arise? ...
CHAPTER ELEVEN - EARLY THOUGHT
§ 1. Primitive Philosophy. § 2. The Old Man in Religion. § 3. Fear and Hope in ...
CHAPTER TWELVE - THE RACES OF MANKIND
§ 1. Is Mankind Still Differentiating? § 2. The Main Races of Mankind. § 3. The ...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
§ 1. No One Primitive Language. § 2. The Aryan Languages. § 3. The Semitic ...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
§ 1. Early Cities and Early Nomads. § 2A. The Sumerians. § 2B. The Empire of ...
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES
§ 1. The Earliest Ships and Sailors. § 2. The Ægean Cities before History. § 3. ...
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - WRITING
§ 1. Picture-Writing. § 2. Syllable-Writing. § 3. Alphabet-Writing. § 4. The ...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS
§ 1. The Priest Comes into History. § 2. Priests and the Stars. § 3. Priests ...
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS
§ 1. The Common Man in Ancient Times. § 2. The Earliest Slaves. § 3. The First ...
CHAPTER NINETEEN - THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS
§ 1. The Place of the Israelites in History. § 2. Saul, David, and Solomon. § ...
CHAPTER TWENTY - THE ARYAN - SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES
§ 1. The Spreading of the Aryan-Speakers. § 2. Primitive Aryan Life. § 3. Early ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS
§ 1. The Hellenic Peoples. § 2. Distinctive Features of Hellenic Civilization. ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - GREEK THOUGHT IN RELATION TO HUMAN SOCIETY
§ 1. The Athens of Pericles. § 2. Socrates. § 3. Plato and the Academy. § 4. ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
§ 1. Philip of Macedonia. § 2. The Murder of King Philip. § 3. Alexander’s ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA
§ 1. The Science of Alexandria. § 2. Philosophy of Alexandria. § 3. Alexandria ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM
§ 1. The Story of Gautama. § 2. Teaching and Legend in Conflict. § 3. The ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS
§ 1. The Beginnings of the Latins. § 2. A New Sort of State. § 3. The ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD EMPEROR IN ROME
§ 1. The Science of Thwarting the Common Man. § 2. Finance in the Roman State. ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - THE CÆSARS BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE ...
§ 1. A Short Catalogue of Emperors. § 2. Roman Civilization at its Zenith. § 3. ...
ENDNOTES
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