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OF CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE 6.
THE RISE AND FALL OF EGYPT 7. MESOPOTAMIA, THE
SECOND CENTRE OF EASTERN CIVILISATION 8. THE
SUMERIAN NAIL WRITERS, WHOSE CLAY TABLETS TELL US
THE STORY OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA, THE GREAT
SEMITIC MELTING-POT 9. THE STORY OF MOSES, THE
LEADER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE 10. THE PHOENICIANS,

WHO GAVE US OUR ALPHABET 11. THE INDO-EUROPEAN
PERSIANS CONQUER THE SEMITIC AND THE EGYPTIAN
WORLD 12. THE PEOPLE OF THE AEGEAN SEA CARRIED THE
CIVILISATION OF OLD ASIA INTO THE WILDERNESS OF
EUROPE 13. MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE OF
THE HELLENES WAS TAKING POSSESSION OF GREECE 14.
THE GREEK CITIES THAT WERE REALLY STATES 15. THE
GREEKS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO TRY THE DIFFICULT
EXPERIMENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT 16. HOW THE GREEKS
LIVED 17. THE ORIGINS OF THE THEATRE, THE FIRST FORM
OF PUBLIC AMUSEMENT 18. HOW THE GREEKS DEFENDED
EUROPE AGAINST AN ASIATIC INVASION AND DROVE THE
PERSIANS BACK ACROSS THE AEGEAN SEA 19. HOW
ATHENS AND SPARTA FOUGHT A LONG AND DISASTROUS
WAR FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF GREECE 20. ALEXANDER
THE MACEDONIAN ESTABLISHES A GREEK WORLD EMPIRE,
AND WHAT BECAME OF THIS HIGH AMBITION 21. A SHORT
SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS 1 TO 20 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 23. HOW ROME HAPPENED 24. HOW THE
REPUBLIC OF ROME, AFTER CENTURIES OF UNREST AND
REVOLUTION, BECAME AN EMPIRE 25. THE STORY OF
JOSHUA OF NAZARETH, WHOM THE GREEKS CALLED JESUS
26. THE TWILIGHT OF ROME 27. HOW ROME BECAME THE
CENTRE OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD 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'' 29. HOW CHARLEMAGNE,
THE KING OF THE ~ RANKS, CAME TO BEAR THE TITLE OF
EMPEROR AND TRIED TO REVIVE THE OLD IDEAL OF
WORLD-EMPIRE 30. WHY THE PEOPLE OF THE TENTH
CENTURY PRAYED THE LORD TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE
FURY OF THE NORSEMEN 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 32. CHIVALRY 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 34.
BUT ALL THESE DIFFERENT QUARRELS WERE FORGOTTEN
WHEN THE TURKS TOOK THE HOLY LAND, DESECRATED
THE HOLY PLACES AND INTERFERED SERIOUSLY WITH THE
TRADE FROM EAST TO WEST. EUROPE WENT CRUSADING 35.
WHY THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES SAID THAT CITY
AIR IS FREE AIR 36. HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE CITIES
ASSERTED THEIR RIGHT TO BE HEARD IN THE ROYAL
COUNCILS OF THEIR COUNTRY 37. WHAT THE PEOPLE OF
THE MIDDLE AGES THOUGHT OF THE WORLD IN WHICH
THEY HAPPENED TO LIVE 38. HOW THE CRUSADES ONCE
MORE MADE THE MEDITERRANEAN A BUSY CENTRE OF
TBADE AND HOW THE CITIES OF THE ITALIAN PENINSULA
BECAME THE GREAT DISTRIBUTING CENTRE FOR THE
COMMERCE WITH ASIA AND AFRICA 39. PEOPLE ONCE
MORE DARED TO BE HAPPY JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE
ALIVE. THEY TRIED TO SAVE THE REMAINS OF THE OLDER
AND MORE AGREEABLE CIVILISATION OF ROME AND
GREECE AND THEY WERE 80 PROUD OF THEIR
ACHIEVEMENTS THAT THEY SPOKE OF A RENAISSANCE OR
RE-BIRTH OF CIVILISATION 40. THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO FEEL
THE NEED OF GIVING EXPRESSION TO THEIR NEWLY
DISCOVERED JOY OF LIVING. THEY EXPRESSED THEIR
HAPPINES9 IN POETRY AND IN SCULPTURE AND IN
ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING, AND IN THE BOOKS THEY
PRINTED 41. BUT NOW THAT PEOPLE HAD BROKEN
THROUGH THE BONDS OF THEIR NARROW ~IEDIIEVAL
LIMITATIONS, THEY HAD TO HAVE MORE ROOM FOR THEIR
WANDERINGS. THE EUROPEAN WORLD HAD GROWN TOO
SMALL FOR THEIR AMBITIONS. IT WAS THE TIME OF THE
GREAT VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 42. CONCERNING BUDDHA

AND CONFUCIUS 43. THE PROGRESS OF THE HUMAN RACE
IS BEST COMPARED TO A GIGANTIC PENDULUM WHICH
FOREVER SWINGS FORWARD AND BACKWARD. THE
RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE AND THE ARTISTIC AND
LITERARY ENTHUSIASM OF THE RENAISSANCE WERE
FOLLOWED BY THE ARTISTIC AND LITERARY
INDIFFERENCE AND THE RELIGIOITS ENTHUSIASM OF THE
REFORMATION 44. THE AGE OF THE GREAT RELIGIOUS
CONTROVERSIES 45. HOW THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE
DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS AND THE LESS DIVINE BUT MORE
REASONABLE RIGHT OF PARLIAMENT ENDED
DISASTROUSLY FOR KING CHARLES II 46. IN FRANCE, ON
THE OTHER HAND, THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS
CONTINUED WITH GREATER POMP AND SPLENDOR THAN
EVER BEFORE AND THE AMBITION OF THE RULER WAS
ONLY TEMPERED BY THE NEWLY INVENTED LAW OF THE
BALANCE OF POWER 47. THE STORY OF