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INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS.
PART I.
ANCIENT HISTORY.
From the Beginning of Authentic History to the Migrations of the Teutonic
Tribes (A.D. 375).
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PERIOD I.
GREECE PRIOR TO THE PERSIAN WARS.
CHAPTER I.-THE PREHISTORIC AGE
CHAPTER II.-THE FORMATION OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES
PERIOD II.
CHAPTER IV.- RELATIONS WITH PERSIA: THE SPARTAN AND THEBAN
HEGEMONY
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ROME UNDER THE KINGS AND THE PATRICIANS (753-304 B.C.).
CHAPTER I. - ROME UNDER THE KINGS (753-509 B.C.).
CHAPTER II. ROME UNDER THE PATRICIANS (509-304 B.C.)
TO THE UNION OF ITALY (304 264 B.C.).
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CHAPTER I.-CONQUEST OF THE LATINS AND ITALIANS (304-282 B.C.), 138
CHAPTER II.-WAR WITH PYRRHUS AND UNION WITH ITALY (282-
264 B.C.)
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PERIOD III.
THE PUNIC WARS.
To the Conquest of Carthage and of the Greek States (264-146 B.C.)
CHAPTER I.- THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WARS (264-202 B.C.).
CHAPTER II.-CONQUEST OF MACEDONIA: THE THIRD PUNIC WAR:
THE DESTRUCTION OF CORINTH (202-146 B.C.)
PERIOD IV.
THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND OF THE CIVIL WARS (146-31 B.C.).
CHAPTER I.—THE GRACCHI: THE FIRST MITHRIDATIC WAR: MARIUS
AND SULLA (146-78 B.C.)
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CHAPTER II. POMPEIUS AND THE EAST: TO THE DEATH OF CRAS-
SUS (78-53 B.C.)
CHAPTER III. POMPEIUS AND CÆSAR: THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE
PERIOD V.
THE IMPERIAL MONARCHY.
To the Migrations of the Teutonic Tribes (375 A.D.)
CHAPTER I.-THE REign of AUGUSTUS
CHAPTER II.- THE EMPERORs of the AUGUSTAN HOUSE
CHAPTER III. THE FLAVIANS AND THE ANTONINES
CHAPTER IV. THE EMPERORS MADE BY THE SOLDIERS: THE ABSO-
LUTE MONARCHY: THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY.
From the Migrations of the Teutonic Tribes to the Fall of Constantinople
TO THE CARLOVINGIAN LINE OF FRANK RULERS (A.D. 375-751).
CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE: THE
TEUTONIC CONFEDERACIES
CHAPTER IV. - MOHAMMEDANISM AND THE ARABIC Conquests.
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FROM THE CARLOVINGIAN LINE OF FRANK KINGS TO THE
ROMANO-GERMANIC EMPIRE (A.D. 751-962).
CHAPTER I.-THE CARLOVINGIAN EMPIRE TO THE DEATH OF CHAR-
LEMAGNE (A.D. 814)
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CHAPTER II. DISSOLUTION OF CHARLEMAGNE'S EMPIRE: RISE of
THE KINGDOMS OF FRANCE, GERMANY, AND ITALY.
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CHAPTER III. -INVASIONS OF THE NORTHMEN AND OTHERS: THE
FEUDAL SYSTEM
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FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ROMANO-GERMANIC EMPIRE TO
THE END OF THE CRUSADES (A.D. 962-1270).
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CHAPTER I.-THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF Tthe
EMPIRE: TO THE CRUSADES (A.D. 1096)
CHAPTER II. THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF
THE CHURCH TO THE END OF THE CRUSADES (A.D. 1270) . . 269
CHAPTER III.- ENGLAND AND FRANCE: THE FIRST PERIOD OF THEIR
RIVALSHIP (A.D. 1066-1217) ..
CHAPTER IV.-RISE OF THE BURGHER CLASS: SOCIETY IN THE ERA
OF THE CRUSADES
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FROM THE END OF THE CRUSADES TO THE FALL OF CONSTAN-
TINOPLE (A.D. 1270-1453): THE DECLINE OF ECCLESIASTICAL
AUTHORITY: THE GROWTH OF THE NATIONAL SPIRIT AND OF
MONARCHY.
CHAPTER I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE: SECOND PERIOD OF RIVAL-
SHIP THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR (A.D. 1339-1453)
CHAPTER II.-GERMANY: ITALY: SPAIN: THE SCANDINAVIAN COUN-
TRIES: POLAND AND RUSSIA: HUNGARY: OTTOMAN TURKS: THE
GREEK EMPIRE
CHAPTER III.- -THE COUNTRIES OF EASTERN ASIA
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PART III.
MODERN HISTORY.
From the Fall of Constantinople (1453) to the Present Time
FROM THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE TO THE REFORMA-
TION (1453-1517).
CHAPTER I.-FRANCE: ENGLAND: SPAIN: GERMANY: ITALY: THE
OTTOMAN TURKS: RUSSIA: THE INVASIONS OF ITALY
CHAPTER II.-INVENTION AND DISCOVERY: THE RENAISSANCE.