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The Story of Mankind

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

Read by Michelle Crandall and Kara Shallenberg · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Chapters

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00 Foreword (8:25)
01 The Setting of the Stage (9:08)
02 Our Earliest Ancestors (5:06)
03 Prehistoric Man (5:24)
04 Hieroglyphics (10:19)
05 The Nile Valley (7:10)
06 The Story of Egypt (4:28)
07 Mesopotamia (2:28)
08 The Sumerians (7:19)
09 Moses (5:10)
10 The Phoenicians (3:13)
11 The Indo-Europeans (4:07)
12 The Aegean Sea (6:35)
13 The Greeks (3:50)
14 The Greek Cities (6:07)
15 Greek Self-Government (5:51)
16 Greek Life (7:41)
17 The Greek Theatre (6:15)
18 The Persian Wars (8:51)
19 Athens vs. Sparta (4:40)
20 Alexander the Great (4:07)
21 A Summary (5:27)
22 Rome and Carthage (23:42)
23 The Rise of Rome (5:27)
24 The Roman Empire (19:19)
25 Joshua of Nazareth (9:07)
26 The Fall of Rome (10:27)
27 Rise of the Church (13:36)
28 Mohammed (11:22)
29 Charlemagne (10:04)
30 The Norsemen (4:30)
31 Feudalism (6:58)
32 Chivalry (5:01)
33 Pope vs. Emperor (12:06)
34 The Crusades (8:54)
35 The Mediaeval City (19:25)
36 Mediaeval Self-Government (9:28)
37 The Mediaeval World (15:03)
38 Mediaeval Trade (12:02)
39 The Renaissance (27:27)
40 The Age of Expression (9:04)
41 The Great Discoveries (27:03)
42 Buddha and Confucius (17:06)
43 The Reformation (22:47)
44 Religious Warfare (28:41)
45 The English Revolution (33:12)
46 The Balance of Power (9:15)
47 The Rise of Russia (13:47)
48 Russia vs Sweden (7:55)
49 The Rise of Prussia (8:46)
50 The Mercantile System (7:15)
51 The American Revolution (13:30)
52 The French Revolution (28:12)
53 Napoleon (24:04)
54 The Holy Alliance (21:45)
55 The Great Reaction (16:30)
56 National Independence (41:24)
57 The Age of the Engine (19:35)
58 The Social Revolution (10:00)
59 Emancipation (15:50)
60 The Age of Science (10:17)
61 Art (28:53)
62 Colonial Expansion and War (18:09)
63 A New World (20:00)
64 As It Shall Ever Be (1:32)

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