the Indies Westward: Columbus and Magellan 223.
The Indians 224. Spanish Explorations and Conquests in America 225.
The Spanish Colonial Empire 226. French and English Explorations in
America 227. The Old World and the New
XXVII. THE REFORMATION AND THE RELIGIOUS WARS,
1517-1648 A.D.
228. Decline of the Papacy 229. Heresies and Heretics 230. Martin
Luther and the Beginning of the Reformation in Germany, 1517-1522
A.D. 231. Charles V and the Spread of the German Reformation,
1519-1556 A.D. 232. The Reformation in Switzerland: Zwingli and
Calvin 233. The English Reformation, 1533-1558 A.D. 234. The
Protestant Sects 235. The Catholic Counter Reformation 236. Spain
under Philip II, 1556-1598 A.D. 237. Revolt of the Netherlands 238.
England under Elizabeth, 1558-1603 A.D. 239. The Huguenot Wars in
France 240. The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 A.D.
XXVIII. ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, 1603-1715
A.D.
241. The Divine Right of Kings 242. The Absolutism of Louis XIV,
1661-1715 A.D. 243. France under Louis XIV 244. The Wars of Louis
XIV 245. The Absolutism of the Stuarts, 1603-1642 A.D. 246. Oliver
Cromwell and the Civil War, 1642-1649 A.D. 247. The
Commonwealth and the Protectorate, 1649-1660 A.D. 248. The
Restoration and the "Glorious Revolution," 1660-1689 A.D. 249.
England in the Seventeenth Century
APPENDIX--Table of Events and Dates
INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Disk of Phaestus. A Papyrus Manuscript. A Prehistoric Egyptian Grave.
A Hatchet of the Early Stone Age. Arrowheads of the Later Stone Age.
Early Roman Bar Money. Various Signs of Symbolic Picture Writing.
Mexican Rebus. Chinese Picture Writing and Later Conventional
Characters. Cretan Writing. Egyptian and Babylonian Writing. The
Moabite Stone (Louvre, Paris). Head of a Girl (Musée S. Germain,
Paris). Sketch of Mammoth on a Tusk found in a Cave in France. Bison
painted on the Wall of a Cave. Cave Bear drawn on a Pebble. Wild
Horse on the Wall of a Cave in Spain. A Dolmen. Carved Menhir. Race
Portraiture of the Egyptians. The Great Wall of China. Philae. Top of
Monument containing the Code of Hammurabi (British Museum,
London). Khufu (Cheops), Builder of the Great Pyramid. Menephtah,
the supposed Pharaoh of the Exodus. Head of Mummy of Rameses II
(Museum of Gizeh). The Great Pyramid. The Great Sphinx. A
Phoenician War Galley. An Assyrian. An Assyrian Relief (British
Museum, London). The Ishtar Gate, Babylon. The Tomb of Cyrus the
Great. Darius with his Attendants. Rock Sepulchers of the Persian
Kings. A Royal Name in Hieroglyphics (Rosetta Stone). An Egyptian
Court Scene. Plowing and Sowing in Ancient Egypt. Transport of an
Assyrian Colossus. Egyptian weighing Cow Gold. Babylonian Contract
Tablet. An Egyptian Scarab. Amenhotep IV. Mummy and Cover of
Coffin (U.S. National Museum, Washington). The Judgment of the
Dead. The Deluge Tablet (British Museum, London). An Egyptian
Temple (Restored). An Egyptian Wooden Statue (Museum of Gizeh).
An Assyrian Palace (Restored). An Assyrian Winged Human headed
Bull. An Assyrian Hunting Scene (British Museum, London). A
Babylonian Map of the World. An Egyptian Scribe (Louvre, Paris).
Excavations at Nippur. Excavations at Troy. Lions' Gate, Mycenae.
Silver Fragment from Mycenae (National Museum, Athens). A Cretan
Girl (Museum of Candia, Crete). Aegean Snake Goddess (Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston). A Cretan Cupbearer (Museum of Candia, Crete).
The François Vase (Archaeological Museum, Florence). Consulting the
Oracle at Delphi. The Discus Thrower (Lancelotti Palace, Rome).
Athlete using the Strigil (Vatican Gallery, Rome). "Temple of
Neptune," Paestum. Croesus on the Pyre. Persian Archers (Louvre,
Paris). Gravestone of Aristion (National Museum, Athens). Greek
Soldiers in Arms. The Mound at Marathon. A Themistocles Ostrakon
(British Museum, London). An Athenian Trireme (Reconstruction).
"Theseum". Pericles (British Museum, London). An Athenian
Inscription. The "Mourning Athena" (Acropolis Museum, Athens). A
Silver Coin of Syracuse. Philip II. Demosthenes (Vatican Museum,
Rome). Alexander (Glyptothek, Munich). The Alexander Mosaic
(Naples Museum). A Greek Cameo (Museum, Vienna). The Dying
Gaul (Capitoline Museum, Rome). A Graeco-Etruscan Chariot
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). An Etruscan Arch.
Characters of the Etruscan Alphabet. An Early Roman Coin. A Roman
Farmer's Calendar. Cinerary Urns in Terra Cotta (Vatican Museum,
Rome). A Vestal Virgin. Suovetaurilia (Louvre, Paris). An Etruscan
Augur. Coop with Sacred Chickens. Curule Chair and Fasces. The
Appian Way. A Roman Legionary. A Roman Standard Bearer (Bonn
Museum). Column of Duilius (Restored). A Carthaginian or Roman
Helmet (British Museum, London). A Testudo. Storming a City
(Reconstruction). Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Spada Palace, Rome).
Marcus Tullius Cicero (Vatican Museum, Rome). Gaius Julius Caesar
(British Museum, London). A Roman Coin with the Head of Julius
Caesar. Augustus (Vatican Museum, Rome). Monumentum
Ancyranum. Pompeii. Nerva (Vatican Museum, Rome). Column of
Trajan. The Pantheon. The Tomb of Hadrian. Marcus Aurelius in his
Triumphal Car (Palace of the Conservatori, Rome). Wall of Hadrian in
Britain. Roman Baths, at Bath, England. A Roman Freight Ship. A
Roman Villa. A Roman Temple. The Amphitheater at Arles. A
Megalith at
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