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The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind

by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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Author
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944
Credits
Produced by eagkw, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
Subject
World history -- Juvenile literature
Category
Text
eBook-No.
46399
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46399
Release Date
July 24, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE STORY OF MANKIND
  2. 2.FOREWORD
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.LIST OF COLORED PICTURES
  5. 5.LIST OF HALF TONE PICTURES
  6. 6.LIST OF PICTURES AND ANIMATED MAPS
  7. 7.THE SETTING OF THE STAGE
  8. 8.OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS
  9. 9.PREHISTORIC MAN
  10. 10.HIEROGLYPHICS
  11. 11.THE NILE VALLEY
  12. 12.THE STORY OF EGYPT
  13. 13.MESOPOTAMIA
  14. 14.THE SUMERIANS
  15. 15.MOSES
  16. 16.THE PHŒNICIANS
  17. 17.THE INDO-EUROPEANS
  18. 18.THE ÆGEAN SEA
  19. 19.THE GREEKS
  20. 20.THE GREEK CITIES
  21. 21.GREEK SELF-GOVERNMENT
  22. 22.GREEK LIFE
  23. 23.THE GREEK THEATRE
  24. 24.THE PERSIAN WARS
  25. 25.ATHENS vs. SPARTA
  26. 26.ALEXANDER THE GREAT
  27. 27.A SUMMARY
  28. 28.ROME AND CARTHAGE
  29. 29.THE RISE OF ROME
  30. 30.THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  31. 31.JOSHUA OF NAZARETH
  32. 32.THE FALL OF ROME
  33. 33.RISE OF THE CHURCH
  34. 34.MOHAMMED
  35. 35.CHARLEMAGNE
  36. 36.THE NORSEMEN
  37. 37.FEUDALISM
  38. 38.CHIVALRY
  39. 39.POPE vs. EMPEROR
  40. 40.THE CRUSADES
  41. 41.THE MEDIÆVAL CITY
  42. 42.MEDIÆVAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
  43. 43.THE MEDIÆVAL WORLD
  44. 44.MEDIÆVAL TRADE
  45. 45.THE RENAISSANCE
  46. 46.THE AGE OF EXPRESSION
  47. 47.THE GREAT DISCOVERIES
  48. 48.BUDDHA AND CONFUCIUS
  49. 49.THE REFORMATION
  50. 50.RELIGIOUS WARFARE
  51. 51.THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
  52. 52.THE BALANCE OF POWER
  53. 53.THE RISE OF RUSSIA
  54. 54.RUSSIA vs. SWEDEN
  55. 55.THE RISE OF PRUSSIA
  56. 56.THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM
  57. 57.THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
  58. 58.THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  59. 59.NAPOLEON
  60. 60.THE HOLY ALLIANCE
  61. 61.THE GREAT REACTION
  62. 62.NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
  63. 63.THE AGE OF THE ENGINE
  64. 64.THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
  65. 65.EMANCIPATION
  66. 66.THE AGE OF SCIENCE
  67. 67.ART
  68. 68.COLONIAL EXPANSION AND WAR
  69. 69.A NEW WORLD
  70. 70.AS IT EVER SHALL BE
  71. 71.AN ANIMATED CHRONOLOGY
  72. 72.CONCERNING THE PICTURES
  73. 73.AN HISTORICAL READING LIST FOR CHILDREN — The Days Before History — The Dawn of History — Stories of Greece and Rome — Christianity — Stories of Legend and Chivalry — Adventurers in New Worlds — The World’s Progress in Invention—Art—Music. — The Democracy of To-Day. — Illustrated Histories in French.
  74. 74.INDEX

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