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The Scene of Our History is Laid Upon a Little Planet, Lost in the
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PAGE Greece 84 Rome 126 The Norsemen Are Coming 156 The Castle 164 The Mediæval World 194 A New World 238 Buddha Goes into the Mountains 246 Moscow 306
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PAGE The Temple 68 The Mountain-pass 148 The Mediæval Town 180 The Cathedral 220 The Blockhouse in the Wilderness 328 Off for Trafalgar 362 The Modern City 404 The Dirigible 430
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PAGE 1. High Up in the North 1 2. It Rained Incessantly 4 3. The Ascent of Man 5 4. The Plants Leave the Sea 6 5. The Growth of the Human Skull 9 6. Pre-history and History 11 7. Prehistoric Europe 15 8. The Valley of Egypt 23 9. The Building of the Pyramids 25 10. Mesopotamia, the Melting-pot of the Ancient World 30 11. A Tower of Babel 34 12. Nineveh 35 13. The Holy City of Babylon 36 14. The Wanderings of the Jews 39 15. Moses Sees the Holy Land 41 16. The Phœnician Trader 42 17. The Story of a Word 45 18. The Indo-Europeans and Their Neighbours 46 19. The Trojan Horse 48 20. Schliemann Digs for Troy 49 21. Mycenæ in Argolis 50 22. The Ægean Sea 51 23. The Island-Bridges Between Asia and Europe 52 24. An Ægean City on the Greek Mainland 54 25. The Achæans Take an Ægean City 55 26. The Fall of Cnossus 56 27. Mount Olympus, Where the Gods Lived 59 28. A Greek City-State 63 29. Greek Society 67 30. The Persian Fleet is Destroyed Near Mount Athos 75 31. The Battle of Marathon 76 32. Thermopylæ 78 33. The Battle of Thermopylæ 78 34. The Persians Burn Athens 79 35. Carthage 89 36. Spheres of Influence 90 37. How the City of Rome Happened 92 38. A Fast Roman Warship 97 39. Hannibal Crosses the Alps 99 40. Hannibal and the CEF 101 41. The Death of Hannibal 103 42. How Rome Happened 105 43. Civilisation Goes Westward 107 44. Cæsar Goes West 114 45. The Great Roman Empire 117 46. The Holy Land 121 47. When the Barbarians Got Through With a Roman City 126 48. The Invasions of the Barbarians 128 49. A Cloister 133 50. The Goths Are Coming! 134 51. The Flight of Mohammed 139 52. The Struggle Between the Cross and the Crescent 143 53. The Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality 147 54. The Home of the Norsemen 151 55. The Norsemen Go to Russia 152 56. The Normans Look Across the Channel 152 57. The World of the Norsemen 153 58. Henry IV at Canossa 165 59. The First Crusade 170 60. The World of the Crusaders 171 61. The Crusaders Take Jerusalem 172 62. The Crusader’s Grave 173 63. The Castle and the City 179 64. The Belfry 182 65. Gunpowder 183 66. The Spreading of the Idea of Popular Sovereignty 185 67. The Home of Swiss Liberty 188 68. The Abjuration of Philip II 189 69. Mediæval Trade 199 70. Great Nowgorod 202 71. The Hansa Ship 204 72. The Mediæval Laboratory 209 73. The Renaissance 210 74. Dante 212 75. John Huss 220 76. The Manuscript and the Printed Book 222 77. Marco Polo 225 78. How the World Grew Larger 227 79. The World of Columbus 230 80. The Great Discoveries. Western Hemisphere 233 81. The Great Discoveries. Eastern Hemisphere 234 82. Magellan 237 83. The Three Great Religions 243 84. The Great Moral Leaders 249 85. Luther Translates the Bible 257 86. The Inquisition 263 87. The Night of St. Bartholomew 268 88. Leyden Delivered by the Cutting of the Dikes 269 89. The Murder of William the Silent 270 90. The Armada is Coming! 271 91. The Death of Hudson 273 92. The Thirty Years War 275 93. Amsterdam in 1648 277 94. The English Nation 280 95. The Hundred Years War 281 96. John and Sebastian Cabot See the Coast of Newfoundland 284 97. The Elizabethan Stage 285 98. The Balance of Power 299 99. The Origin of Russia 303 100. Peter the Great in the Dutch Shipyard 308 101. Peter the Great Builds His New Capital 310 102. The Voyage of the Pilgrims 318 103. How Europe Conquered the World 321 104. Sea Power 322 105. The Fight for Liberty 323 106. The Pilgrims 324 107. How the White Man Settled in North America 325 108. In the Cabin of the
Mayflower 327 109. The French Explore the West 328 110. The First Winter in New England 329 111. George Washington 331 112. The Great American Revolution 332 113. The Guillotine 337 114. Louis XVI 339 115. The Bastille 342 116. The French Revolution Invades Holland 347 117. The Retreat from Moscow 355 118. The Battle of Waterloo 358 119. Napoleon Goes Into Exile 359 120. The Spectre Which Frightened the Holy Alliance 364 121. The Real Congress of Vienna 367 122. The Monroe Doctrine 385 123. Giuseppe Mazzini 395 124. The First Steamboat 407 125. The Origin of the Steamboat 408 126. The Origin of the Automobile 409 127. Man-power and Machine-power 414 128. The Factory 416 129. The Philosopher 427 130. Galileo 429 131. Gothic Architecture 437 132. The Troubadour 442 133. The Pioneer 447 134. The Conquest of the West 451 135. War 457 137. Animated Chronology 467 142. The End 472