The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

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INTRODUCTION

SCHEME OF CONTENTS

LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BOOK I THE MAKING OF OUR WORLD

BOOK II THE MAKING OF MEN VIII THE ANCESTRY OF MAN [20]

BOOK III THE DAWN OF HISTORY XV THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES

BOOK IV JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA XXI THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS [157]

BOOK V THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE XXVII THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS [224]

BOOK VI CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM XXX THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANITY

SCHEME OF CONTENTS (2)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BOOK VI ( Continued ) CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM ( Continued ) THE

BOOK VII THE MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS AND THE NEW

BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS XXXVI PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS

BOOK IX THE NEXT STAGE IN HISTORY XLI THE POSSIBLE UNIFICATION

TIME CHARTS AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

INDEX

FOOTNOTES:

THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY

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Introduction

VOLUME I.
Scheme of Contents, Volume I.
List of Maps and Illustrations

VOLUME II.
Scheme of Contents, Volume II.
List of Illustrations
Time Charts
Chronological Table
Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

(etext transcriber's note)

¶ Mr. WELLS has also written the following novels:
  LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM
KIPPS
MR. POLLY
THE WHEELS OF CHANCE
THE NEW MACHIAVELLI
ANN VERONICA
TONO BUNGAY
MARRIAGE
BEALBY
THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS
THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN
THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT
MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH
THE SOUL OF A BISHOP
JOAN AND PETER
THE UNDYING FIRE
¶ The following fantastic and imaginative romances:
  THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
THE TIME MACHINE
THE WONDERFUL VISIT
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
THE SEA LADY
THE SLEEPER AWAKES
THE FOOD OF THE GODS
THE WAR IN THE AIR
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET
THE WORLD SET FREE
And numerous Short Stories now collected in One Volume under the title of
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
¶ A Series of books on Social, Religious, and Political questions:
  ANTICIPATIONS (1900)
MANKIND IN THE MAKING
FIRST AND LAST THINGS
NEW WORLDS FOR OLD
A MODERN UTOPIA
THE FUTURE IN AMERICA
AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE
WORLD
WHAT IS COMING?
WAR AND THE FUTURE
IN THE FOURTH YEAR
GOD THE INVISIBLE KING
¶ And two little books about children’s play, called
FLOOR GAMES and LITTLE WARS

THE OUTLINE OF
HISTORY

Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

BY
H. G. WELLS

WRITTEN WITH THE ADVICE AND EDITORIAL HELP OF

MR. ERNEST BARKER,
SIR H. H. JOHNSTON, SIR E. RAY LANKESTER
AND PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY

AND ILLUSTRATED BY
J. F. HORRABIN

VOLUME I

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1920,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
By H. G. WELLS.
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1920.

NORWOOD PRESS
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


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