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Forward

very short chapters:
01 The Setting of the Stage - evolutionary beginnings of earth
02 Our Earliest Ancestors - cave men
03 Prehistoric Man
04 Hieroglyphics 3000BC-50 AD?
05 The Nile Valley - 2000's BC
06 The Story of Egypt - 1700 BC-30 BC
07 Mesopotamia - 3500 BC?-?
08 The Sumerians - 2000 BC?-1750 BC-538 BC
09 Moses - 1440 BC?
10 The Phoenicians - 1050 BC
11 The Indo-Europeans - 500 BC
12 The Aegean Sea - 1180 BC?
13 The Greeks - 1500 BC?
14 The Greek Cities - up to 300BC
15 Greek Self-Government - 600 BC?
16 Greek Life - 500 BC
17 The Greek Theatre - 400 BC
18 The Persian Wars - 480-490 BC
19 Athens vs. Sparta - 404 BC
20 Alexander the Great - 356-323 BC
21 A Summary of chapters 1-20

Longer chapters:
22 Rome and Carthage - 200 BC
23 The Rise of Rome - 190 BC
24 The Roman Empire - 100 BC-9 AD
25 Joshua of Nazareth - 62 AD
26 The Fall of Rome - 300's-400's AD
27 Rise of the Church - 33AD-600 AD
28 Mohammed - 600's-732 AD
29 Charlemagne - 742-814 AD
30 The Norsemen - 700's-1066 AD
31 Feudalism - 1000 AD
32 Chivalry - 1000-1400
33 Pope vs. Emperor 1000's-1200's
34 The Crusades - 1100-1200's
35 The Mediaeval City - 1066-1485
36 Mediaeval Self-Government - 1066-1485
37 The Mediaeval World - 1066-1485
38 Mediaeval Trade - 1066-1485
39 The Renaissance - 1300's-1400's
40 The Age of Expression - 1471-1500's
41 The Great Discoveries - 1400's-1500's
42 Buddha and Confucius - 400's BC-500 BC
43 The Reformation - 1400's-1500's
44 Religious Warfare - (reformation and inquisition) 1600's
45 The English Revolution - 14-1700
46 The Balance of Power - 16-1700's
47 The Rise of Russia - 15-1600's
48 Russia vs Sweden 16-1700's
49 The Rise of Prussia - 1740
50 The Mercantile System - 1700's
51 The American Revolution - 16-1700's
52 The French Revolution late 1700's
53 Napoleon - 1769-1815
54 The Holy Alliance - 1815
55 The Great Reaction 1815-1860
56 National Independence - 1821-1871
57 The Age of the Engine - 1777-1831
58 The Social Revolution - 1777-1848
59 Emancipation - 1831-1867
60 The Age of Science - 1400's1846
61 A Chapter of Art - ancient Greece to modern art
62 Colonial Expansion and War - late 1800's
63 A New World - speculative: who will lead us into the future?
64 As It Shall Ever Be (half a page)

Chapters added to recent (1984/1994) editions:
65 After Seven Years - 1914-1919
66 The United States Comes of Age - 1922-1929
67 The "Axis" Partners - 1917-1937
68 Isolationism and Appeasement - 1932-1939
69 The Atlantic Charter - 1939-1941
70 Global War - 1941-1945
71 The United Nations - 1944-1950
72 A Turbulent Peace - 1951-1972
73 An Old Order Gives Way - 1960's
74 Spaceship Earth - 1961-1972
75 The Earth as a Global Village - what's our future?
76 Approaching the Year 2000 - computers, environmentalism, oil, terrorism