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1. High Up in the North 1
2. It Rained Incessantly 4
3. The Ascent of Man 5
4. The Plants Leave the Sea 6
5. The Growth of the Human Skull 9
6. Pre-history and History 11
7. Prehistoric Europe 15
8. The Valley of Egypt 23
9. The Building of the Pyramids 25
10. Mesopotamia, the Melting-pot of the Ancient World 30
11. A Tower of Babel 34
12. Nineveh 35
13. The Holy City of Babylon 36
14. The Wanderings of the Jews 39
15. Moses Sees the Holy Land 41
16. The Phœnician Trader 42
17. The Story of a Word 45
18. The Indo-Europeans and Their Neighbours 46
19. The Trojan Horse 48
20. Schliemann Digs for Troy 49
21. Mycenæ in Argolis 50
22. The Ægean Sea 51
23. The Island-Bridges Between Asia and Europe 52
24. An Ægean City on the Greek Mainland 54
25. The Achæans Take an Ægean City 55
26. The Fall of Cnossus 56
27. Mount Olympus, Where the Gods Lived 59
28. A Greek City-State 63
29. Greek Society 67
30. The Persian Fleet is Destroyed Near Mount Athos 75
31. The Battle of Marathon 76
32. Thermopylæ 78
33. The Battle of Thermopylæ 78
34. The Persians Burn Athens 79
35. Carthage 89
36. Spheres of Influence 90
37. How the City of Rome Happened 92
38. A Fast Roman Warship 97
39. Hannibal Crosses the Alps 99
40. Hannibal and the CEF 101
41. The Death of Hannibal 103
42. How Rome Happened 105
43. Civilisation Goes Westward 107
44. Cæsar Goes West 114
45. The Great Roman Empire 117
46. The Holy Land 121
47. When the Barbarians Got Through With a Roman City 126
48. The Invasions of the Barbarians 128
49. A Cloister 133
50. The Goths Are Coming! 134
51. The Flight of Mohammed 139
52. The Struggle Between the Cross and the Crescent 143
53. The Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality 147
54. The Home of the Norsemen 151
55. The Norsemen Go to Russia 152
56. The Normans Look Across the Channel 152
57. The World of the Norsemen 153
58. Henry IV at Canossa 165
59. The First Crusade 170
60. The World of the Crusaders 171
61. The Crusaders Take Jerusalem 172
62. The Crusader’s Grave 173
63. The Castle and the City 179
64. The Belfry 182
65. Gunpowder 183
66. The Spreading of the Idea of Popular Sovereignty 185
67. The Home of Swiss Liberty 188
68. The Abjuration of Philip II 189
69. Mediæval Trade 199
70. Great Nowgorod 202
71. The Hansa Ship 204
72. The Mediæval Laboratory 209
73. The Renaissance 210
74. Dante 212
75. John Huss 220
76. The Manuscript and the Printed Book 222
77. Marco Polo 225
78. How the World Grew Larger 227
79. The World of Columbus 230
80. The Great Discoveries. Western Hemisphere 233
81. The Great Discoveries. Eastern Hemisphere 234
82. Magellan 237
83. The Three Great Religions 243
84. The Great Moral Leaders 249
85. Luther Translates the Bible 257
86. The Inquisition 263
87. The Night of St. Bartholomew 268
88. Leyden Delivered by the Cutting of the Dikes 269
89. The Murder of William the Silent 270
90. The Armada is Coming! 271
91. The Death of Hudson 273
92. The Thirty Years War 275
93. Amsterdam in 1648 277
94. The English Nation 280
95. The Hundred Years War 281
96. John and Sebastian Cabot See the Coast of Newfoundland 284
97. The Elizabethan Stage 285
98. The Balance of Power 299
99. The Origin of Russia 303
100. Peter the Great in the Dutch Shipyard 308
101. Peter the Great Builds His New Capital 310
102. The Voyage of the Pilgrims 318
103. How Europe Conquered the World 321
104. Sea Power 322
105. The Fight for Liberty 323
106. The Pilgrims 324
107. How the White Man Settled in North America 325
108. In the Cabin of the _Mayflower_ 327
109. The French Explore the West 328
110. The First Winter in New England 329
111. George Washington 331
112. The Great American Revolution 332
113. The Guillotine 337
114. Louis XVI 339
115. The Bastille 342
116. The French Revolution Invades Holland 347
117. The Retreat from Moscow 355
118. The Battle of Waterloo 358
119. Napoleon Goes Into Exile 359
120. The Spectre Which Frightened the Holy Alliance 364
121. The Real Congress of Vienna 367
122. The Monroe Doctrine 385
123. Giuseppe Mazzini 395
124. The First Steamboat 407
125. The Origin of the Steamboat 408
126. The Origin of the Automobile 409
127. Man-power and Machine-power 414
128. The Factory 416
129. The Philosopher 427
130. Galileo 429
131. Gothic Architecture 437
132. The Troubadour 442
133. The Pioneer 447
134. The Conquest of the West 451
135. War 457
137. Animated Chronology 467
142. The End 472