The age of the coal swamps
The first birds and the first mammals
Monkeys, apes and sub-men
The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man
The beginnings of cultivation
Primitive Neolithic civilizations
Sumeria, early Egypt and writing
Primitive nomadic peoples
The first sea-going peoples
Egypt, Babylon and Assyria
The last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I
The early history of the Jews
Priests and prophets in Judea
The wars of the Greeks and Persians
The empire of Alexander the Great
The Museum and Library at Alexandria
The life of Gautama Buddha
The growth of the Roman Empire
The common man's life under the early Roman Empire
Religious developments under the Roman Empire.
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 Suy and Tang in China
The great days of the Arabs
The development of Latin Christendom
The Crusades and the age of papal dominion
Recalcitrant princes and the Great Schism
The intellectual revival of the Europeans
The reformation of the Latin Church
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 revolution and famine in Russia
The political and social reconstruction of the world.