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| 1. | The Setting of the Stage | 3 |
| 2. | Our Earliest Ancestors | 9 |
| 3. | Prehistoric Man Begins to Make Things for Himself | 13 |
| 4. | The Egyptians Invent the Art of Writing and the Record of History Begins | 17 |
| 5. | The Beginning of Civilisation in the Valley of the Nile | 22 |
| 6. | The Rise and Fall of Egypt | 27 |
| 7. | Mesopotamia, the Second Centre of Eastern Civilisation | 29 |
| 8. | The Sumerian Nail Writers, Whose Clay Tablets Tell Us the Story of Assyria and Babylonia, the Great Semitic Melting-Pot | 32 |
| 9. | The Story of Moses, the Leader of the Jewish People | 38 |
| 10. | The Phoenicians, Who Gave Us Our Alphabet | 42 |
| 11. | The Indo-European Persians Conquer the Semitic and the Egyptian World | 44 |
| 12. | The People of the Ægean Sea Carried the Civilisation of Old Asia Into the Wilderness of Europe | 48 |
| 13. | Meanwhile the Indo-European Tribe of the Hellenes Was Taking Possession of Greece | 54 |
| 14. | The Greek Cities That Were Really States | 59 |
| 15. | The Greeks Were the First People to Try the Difficult Experiment of Self-Government | 62 |
| 16. | How the Greeks Lived | 66 |
| 17. | The Origins of the Theatre, the First Form of Public Amusement | 71 |
| 18. | How the Greeks Defended Europe Against an Asiatic Invasion and Drove the Persians Back Across the Ægean Sea | 74 |
| 19. | How Athens and Sparta Fought a Long and Disastrous War for the Leadership of Greece | 81 |
| 20. | Alexander the Macedonian Establishes a Greek World-Empire, and What Became of This High Ambition | 83 |
| 21. | A Short Summary of Chapters 1 to 20 | 85 |
| 22. | The Semitic Colony of Carthage on the Northern Coast of Africa and the Indo-European City of Rome on the West Coast of Italy Fought Each Other for the Possession of the Western Mediterranean and Carthage Was Destroyed | 88 |
| 23. | How Rome Happened | 105 |
| 24. | How the Republic of Rome, After Centuries of Unrest and Revolution, Became an Empire | 109 |
| 25. | The Story of Joshua of Nazareth, Whom the Greeks Called Jesus | 119 |
| 26. | The Twilight of Rome | 124 |
| 27. | How Rome Became the Centre of the Christian World | 131 |
| 28. | Ahmed, the Camel Driver, Who Became the Prophet of the Arabian Desert, and Whose Followers Almost Conquered the Entire Known World for the Greater Glory of Allah, the “Only True God” | 138 |
| 29. | How Charlemagne, the King of the Franks, Came to Bear the Title of Emperor and Tried to Revive the Old Ideal of World-Empire | 144 |
| 30. | Why the People of the Tenth Century Prayed the Lord to Protect Them from the Fury of the Norsemen | 150 |
| 31. | How Central Europe, Attacked from Three Sides, Became an Armed Camp and Why Europe Would Have Perished Without Those Professional Soldiers and Administrators Who Were Part of the Feudal System | 155 |
| 32. | Chivalry | 159 |
| 33. | The Strange Double Loyalty of the People of the Middle Ages, and How It Led to Endless Quarrels Between the Popes and the Holy Roman Emperors | [xviii]
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