TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells,H.G.(Hubert George)
TI  - An illustrated short history of the world
SN  - 0881622869
U1  - 909.19 
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Topsfield, Massachusetts
PB  - Salem House Publishers
KW  - World history
N1  - The world in space; The world in time; The beginnings of life; The age of fishes; The age of the coal swamps; The age of reptiles; The first birds and the first mammals; The age of mammals; Monkeys, apes, and sub-men; The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian man; The first true men; Primitive thought; The beginnings of cultivation; The first Americans; Sumeria, early Egypt and writing; Primitive nomadic peoples; The first sea-going peoples; Egypt, Babylon, Assyria; The primitive Aryans; The last Babylonian empire and the empire of Darius I; The early history of the Jews; Priests and prophets in Judea; The Greeks; The wars of the Greeks and Persians; The splendour of Greece; The empire of Alexander the Great; The museum and library of Alexandria; The life of Gautama Buddha; King Asoka; Confucius and Lao Tse; Rome comes into history; Rome and carthage; The growth of the Roman Empire; Between Rome and China; The common man's life under the early Roman empire; Religious developments under the Roman empire; The teaching of Jesus; The development of doctrinal Christianity; The Barbarians break the empire into East and West; The huns and the end of the Western empire; The Byzantine and Sassanid empires; The  dynasties of Sui and Tang in China; Muhammad and Islam; The great days of the Arabs; The development of Latin Christendom; The crusades and the age of papal dominion; The recalcitrant princes and the great schism; The Mongol conquests; The intellectual revival of the Europeans; The reformation of the Latin church; The emperor Charles V; The age of political experiments, of grand monarchy and parliaments and republicanism in Europe; The new empires of the Europeans in Asia and overseas; The American war of independence; The French revolution and the restoration of monarchy in France; The uneasy peace in Europe that followed the fall of Napoleon; The development of material knowledge; The industrial revolution; The development of modern political and social ideas; The expansion of the United States; The rise of Germany to predominance in Europe; The new overseas empires of steamship and railway; European aggression in Asia and the rise of Japan; The British empire in 1914; The age of Armament in Europe and the great war of 1914-18; The Russian revolution; Post-war Euphoria; Disillusion; The second world war; Post-war Euphoria again; The divided world
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