The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Volumen2

Macmillan, 1920

Arabia before Muhammad 2 Life of Muhammad to the Hegira 3 Muhammad becomes a fighting prophet 4 The teachings of Islam 5 The caliphs ...	1

The feudal system	2

The Frankish kingdom of the Merovingians	3

The Christianization of the western barbarians	4

Charlemagne becomes emperor of the West	5

The personality of Charlemagne PAGE	6

1	8

A D	24

Central Europe 1648	233

The Partitions of Poland	250

Britain France and Spain in America 1750	256

Civil war is forced upon the colonies	278

American Colonies 1760	279

THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 1 The Buonaparte family in Corsica	348

The mechanical revolution	384

3 The fermentation of ideas 1848	399

The French and the Germans become distinct 61 8 The Normans the Saracens the Hungarians and the Seljuk Turks 64 9 How Constantinople appeal...	40

Frankish Dominions in the Time of Charles Martel	44

Europe at the Death of Charlemagne	55

BOOK VII	56

France at the Close of the 10th Century	65

THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS 288	72

The First Crusade Map	77

Asia at the end of the twelfth century 2 The rise and victories of the Mongols 3 The travels of Marco Polo	105

The Ottoman Turks the Turkish Caliph and Constantinople	120

Empire of Timurlane	131

THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION	139

Europe at the Fall of Constantinople	141

We have the payne	155

Louis XIV	164

European Trade Routes in the 14th Century	190

Switzerland	198

Martin Luther	206

PRINCES PARLIAMENTS AND POWERS	215

The development of the idea of Socialism	401

Shortcomings of Socialism as a scheme of human society	411

How Darwinism affected religious and political ideas	416

Mr Gladstone and the idea of Nationalism	426

Europe between 1848 and 1878	436

The second scramble for overseas empires	449

The Indian precedent in Asia	461

The history of Japan	464

Close of the period of overseas expansion	469

The British Empire in 1914	470

The armed peace before the Great War	475

Russia still a Grand Monarchy in 1914	502

MANS COMING OF AGE THE PROBABLE STRUGGLE	579

FIVE TIME CHARTS OF THE WORLDS AFFAIRS FROM B C 1000 TO A D 1920	599

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE FROM 800 B C TO A d 1920	605

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Título	The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Volumen2 The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Herbert George Wells
Autor	Herbert George Wells
Editor	Macmillan, 1920
Procedencia del original	de la Universidad de Virginia
Digitalizado	27 Ene. 2009

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