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General History for Colleges and High Schools

General History for Colleges and High Schools

by P. V. N. Myers

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Author
Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Credits
Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
Subject
World history
Category
Text
eBook-No.
6804
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6804
Release Date
November 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.A GENERAL HISTORY FOR COLLEGES AND HIGH SCHOOLS. — PREFACE.
  3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS. — PREFACE LIST OF MAPS GENERAL INTRODUCTION: THE RACES AND THEIR EARLY MIGRATIONS — PART I. — PART II. — MEDIÆVAL AND MODERN HISTORY.
  4. 4.LIST OF COLORED MAPS.
  5. 5.GENERAL HISTORY. — GENERAL INTRODUCTION: THE RACES AND THEIR EARLY MIGRATIONS. — RACES OF MANKIND, WITH CHIEF FAMILIES AND PEOPLES.
  6. 6.PART I. — SECTION I.—THE EASTERN NATIONS. — CHAPTER I. — 1. INDIA. — 2. CHINA.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. — 1. POLITICAL HISTORY. — 2. RELIGION, ARTS, AND GENERAL CULTURE.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. — 1. POLITICAL HISTORY. — 2. ARTS AND GENERAL CULTURE.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — 1. POLITICAL HISTORY. — 2. RELIGION, ARTS, AND GENERAL CULTURE.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — HEBREW RELIGION AND LITERATURE.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — 1. POLITICAL HISTORY. — 2. GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, AND ARTS. — TABLE OF KINGS OF MEDIA AND PERSIA.
  14. 14.SECTION II.—GRECIAN HISTORY — CHAPTER IX.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — 1. AGE OF THE TYRANTS AND OF COLONIZATION. — 2. THE GROWTH OF SPARTA. — 3. THE GROWTH OF ATHENS.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — THE AGE OF PERICLES (459-431 B.C.).
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — 1. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR (431-404 B.C.). — 2. THE SPARTAN AND THE THEBAN SUPREMACY.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF GRECIAN HISTORY TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. — CHAPTER XVII.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — 1. ARCHITECTURE. — 2. SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. — 1. EPIC AND LYRIC POETRY. — 2. THE DRAMA AND DRAMATISTS. — 3. HISTORY AND HISTORIANS. — 4. ORATORY. — 5. THE ALEXANDRIAN AGE.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XX. — SCIENCE AMONG THE GREEKS.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXI.
  26. 26.SECTION III. ROMAN HISTORY. — CHAPTER XXII. — THE ROMAN RELIGION.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. — SECESSION OF THE PLEBEIANS. — WARS FOR THE MASTERY OF ITALY.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. — ROME BETWEEN THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PUNIC WAR. — CARTHAGE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PUNIC WAR. — THE SECOND PUNIC WAR.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. — EVENTS BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THE THIRD PUNIC WAR. — THE THIRD PUNIC WAR. — WAR IN SPAIN.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXX. — LAST DAYS OF THE EMPIRE IN THE WEST. — FINAL PARTITION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. (A.D. 395.)
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI. — 1. ARCHITECTURE. — 2. LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND LAW. — 3. SOCIAL LIFE.
  36. 36.PART II. — INTRODUCTION.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI.
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII.
  43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII.
  44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX.
  45. 45.CHAPTER XL. — 1. FEUDALISM. — 2. CHIVALRY.
  46. 46.CHAPTER XLI.
  47. 47.CHAPTER XLII. — 1. INTRODUCTORY: CAUSES OF THE CRUSADES. — 2. THE FIRST CRUSADE (1096-1099). — 3. THE SECOND CRUSADE (1147-1149). — 4. THE THIRD CRUSADE (1189-1192). — 5. THE FOURTH CRUSADE (1202-1204). — 6. CLOSE OF THE CRUSADES: THEIR RESULTS.
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLIII.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLIV. — THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLV.
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLVI.
  52. 52.CHAPTER XLVII. — 1. ENGLAND. — 2. FRANCE. — 3. SPAIN. — 4. GERMANY. — 5. RUSSIA. — 6. ITALY. — 7. THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES.
  53. 53.SECTION II.—MODERN HISTORY.
  54. 54.CHAPTER XLVIII.
  55. 55.CHAPTER XLIX. — 1. REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. (1519-1556). — 2. SPAIN UNDER PHILIP II. (1556-1598).
  56. 56.CHAPTER L. — 1. INTRODUCTORY. — 2. THE REIGN OF HENRY VII. (1485-1509). — 3. ENGLAND SEVERED FROM THE PAPACY BY HENRY VIII. (1509-1547). — 4. CHANGES IN THE CREED AND RITUAL UNDER EDWARD VI. (1547-1553). — 5. REACTION UNDER MARY (1553-1558). — 6. FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTESTANTISM UNDER ELIZABETH (1558-1603).
  57. 57.CHAPTER LI.
  58. 58.CHAPTER LII.
  59. 59.CHAPTER LIII.
  60. 60.CHAPTER LIV.
  61. 61.CHAPTER LV. — I. THE FIRST TWO STUARTS. — II. THE COMMONWEALTH (1649-1660). — III. THE RESTORED STUARTS. — IV. THE ORANGE-STUARTS.
  62. 62.CHAPTER LVI.
  63. 63.CHAPTER LVII.
  64. 64.CHAPTER LVIII. — 1. CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION: THE STATES-GENERAL OF 1789.
  65. 65.CHAPTER LIX. — 1. THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE (1799-1815). — 2. FRANCE SINCE THE SECOND RESTORATION (1815-).
  66. 66.CHAPTER LX.
  67. 67.CHAPTER LXI.
  68. 68.CHAPTER LXII.
  69. 69.CHAPTER LXIII. — 1. PROGRESS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY. — 2. EXPANSION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF RELIGIOUS EQUALITY. — 3. GROWTH OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE EAST.
  70. 70.CONCLUSION: THE NEW AGE.

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