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The Outline of History¶
Contents:
- Preface to the Mindvessel Edition
- Copyright
- 1.0 The Earth in Space and Time
- 2.0 The Record of the Rocks
- 3.0 Natural Selection and Changes of Species
- 4.0 The Invasion of the Dry Land by Life
- 5.0 The Age of Reptiles
- 6.0 The Age of Mammals
- 7.0 The Ancestry of Man
- 8.0 The Neanderthal Man, an Extinct Race
- 9.0 The Later Postglacial Paleolithic Men, the First True Men
- 10.0 Neolithic Man in Europe
- 11.0 Early Thought
- 12.0 The Races of Mankind
- 13.0 The Languages of Mankind
- 14.0 The First Civilizations
- 15.0 Sea Peoples and Trading Peoples
- 16.0 Writing
- 17.0 Gods and Stars, Priests and Kings
- 18.0 Serfs, Slaves, Social Classes and Free Individuals
- 19.0 The Hebrew Scriptures and the Prophets
- 20.0 The Aryan-speaking Peoples in Prehistoric Times
- 21.0 The Greeks and the Persians
- 21.1 The Hellenic Peoples
- 21.2 Distinctive Features of Hellenic Civilization
- 21.3 Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy in Greece
- 21.4 The Kingdom of Lydia
- 21.5 The Rise of the Persians in the East
- 21.6 The Story of Croesus
- 21.7 Darius Invades Russia
- 21.8 The Battle of Marathon
- 21.9 Thermopylae and Salamis
- 21.10 Plataea and Mycale
- 22.0 Greek Thought in Relation to Human Society
- 23.0 The Career of Alexander the Great
- 24.0 Science and Religion at Alexandria
- 25.0 The Rise and Spread of Buddhism
- 26.0 The Two Western Republics
- 26.1 The Beginnings of the Latins
- 26.2 A New Sort of State
- 26.3 The Carthaginian Republic of Rich Men
- 26.4 The First Punic War
- 26.5 Cato the Elder and the Spirit of Cato
- 26.6 The Second Punic War
- 26.7 The Third Punic War
- 26.8 How the Punic War Undermined Roman Liberty
- 26.9 Comparison of the Roman Republic with a Modern State
- 27.0 From Tiberius Gracchus to the God-Emperor in Rome
- 28.0 The Caesars between the Sea and the Great Plains of the Old World
- 29.0 The Beginnings, the Rise and the Divisions of Christianity
- 29.1 Judea at the Christian Era
- 29.2 The Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
- 29.3 The Universal Religions
- 29.4 The Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
- 29.5 Doctrines Added to the Teachings of Jesus
- 29.6 The Struggles and Persecutions of Christianity
- 29.7 Constantine the Great
- 29.8 The Establishment of Official Christianity
- 29.9 The Map of Europe, A.D. 500
- 29.10 The Salvation of Learning by Christianity
- 30.0 Seven Centuries in Asia (Circa 50 B.C. to A.D. 650)
- 30.1 Justinian the Great
- 30.2 The Sassanid Empire in Persia
- 30.3 The Decay of Syria under the Sassanids
- 30.4 The First Message from Islam
- 30.5 Zoroaster and Mani
- 30.6 Hunnish Peoples in Central Asia and India
- 30.7 The Great Age of China
- 30.8 Intellectual Fetters of China
- 30.9 The Travels of Yuan Chwang
- 31.0 Muhammad and Islam
- 32.0 Christendom and the Crusades
- 32.1 The Western World at its Lowest Ebb
- 32.2 The Feudal System
- 32.3 The Frankish Kingdom of the Merovingians
- 32.4 The Christianization of the Western Barbarians
- 32.5 Charlemagne becomes Emperor of the West
- 32.6 The Personality of Charlemagne
- 32.7 The French and the Germans Become Distinct
- 32.8 The Normans, the Saracens, the Hungarians and the Seljuk Turks
- 32.9 How Constantinople Appealed to Rome
- 32.10 The Crusades
- 32.11 The Crusades, a Test of Christianity
- 32.12 The Emperor Frederick II
- 32.13 Defects and Limitations of the Papacy
- 32.14 A List of Leading Popes
- 33.0 The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and Its Successors
- 33.1 Asia at the End of the Twelfth Century
- 33.2 The Rise and Victories of the Mongols
- 33.3 The Travels of Marco Polo
- 33.4 The Ottoman Turks and Constantinople
- 33.5 Why the Mongols were not Christianized
- 33.5.1 Kublai Khan Founds the Yuan Dynasty
- 33.5.2 The Mongols Revert to Tribalism
- 33.5.3 The Kipchak Empire and the Tsar of Muscovy
- 33.5.4 Timurlane
- 33.5.5 The Mongol Empire of India
- 33.5.6 The Mongols and the Gypsies
- 34.0 Renascence of Western Civilization
- 34.1 Christianity and Popular Education
- 34.2 Europe Begins to Think for Itself
- 34.3 The Great Plague and the Dawn of Communism
- 34.4 How Paper Liberated the Human Mind
- 34.5 Protestantism of the Princes and Protestantism of the Peoples
- 34.6 The Reawakening of Science
- 34.7 The New Growth of European Towns
- 34.8 America Comes into History
- 34.9 What Machiavelli Thought of the World
- 34.10 The Republic of Switzerland
- 34.11 Protestants
- 34.11.1 The Life of Emperor Charles V
- 34.11.2 Protestants if the Prince Wills it
- 34.11.3 The Intellectual Undertow
- 35.0 Princes, Parliaments, and Powers
- 35.1 Princes and Foreign Policy
- 35.2 The Dutch Republic
- 35.3 The English Republic
- 35.4 The Break-up and Disorder of Germany
- 35.5 The Splendours of Grand Monarchy in Europe
- 35.6 The Growth of the Idea of Great Powers
- 35.7 The Crowned Republic of Poland and its Fate
- 35.8 The First Scramble for Empire Overseas
- 35.9 Britain Dominates India
- 35.10 Russia’s Ride to the Pacific
- 35.11 What Gibbon Thought of the World in 1780
- 35.12 The Social Truce Draws to an End
- 36.0 The New Democratic Republics of America and France
- 36.1 Inconveniences of the Great Power System
- 36.2 The Thirteen Colonies Before their Revolt
- 36.3 Civil War is Forced Upon the Colonies
- 36.4 The War of Independence
- 36.5 The Constitution of the United States
- 36.6 Primitive Features of the United States Constitution
- 36.7 Revolutionary Ideas in France
- 36.8 The Revolution of the Year 1789
- 36.9 The French Crowned Republic of 1789-1791
- 36.10 The Revolution of the Jacobins
- 36.11 The Jacobin Republic 1792-1794
- 36.12 The Directory
- 36.13 The Pause in Reconstruction and the Dawn of Modern Socialism
- 37.0 The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 38.0 The Realities and Imaginations of the Nineteenth Century
- 38.1 The Mechanical Revolution
- 38.2 Relation of the Mechanical to the Industrial Revolution
- 38.3 The Fermentation of Ideas, 1848
- 38.4 The Development of the Idea of Socialism
- 38.5 Shortcoming of Socialism as a Scheme of Human Society
- 38.6 How Darwinism Affected Religious and Policial Ideas
- 38.7 The Idea of Nationalism
- 38.8 Europe Between 1848 and 1878
- 38.9 The (Second) Scramble for Overseas Empires
- 38.10 The Indian Precedent in Asia
- 38.11 The History of Japan
- 38.12 Close of the Period of Overseas Expansion
- 38.13 The British Empire in 1914
- 39.0 The International Catastrophe of 1914
- 39.1 The Armed Peace before the Great War
- 39.2 Imperial Germany
- 39.3 The Spirit of Imperialism in Britain and Ireland
- 39.4 Imperialism in France, Italy and the Balkans
- 39.5 Russia Still a Grand Monarchy in 1914
- 39.6 The United States and the Imperial Idea
- 39.7 The Immediate Causes of the great War
- 39.8 A Summary of the Great War up to 1917
- 39.9 The Great War from the Russian Collapse to the Armistice
- 39.10 The Political, Economic, and Social Disorganization Caused by the Great War
- 39.11 President Wilson and the problems of Versailles
- 39.12 Summary of the First Covenant of the League of Nations
- 39.13 A General Outline of the Treaties of 1919 and 1920
- 39.14 A Forecast of the Next War
- 40.0 The Next Stage of History
- 41.0 Chronological Table
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