The story of world progress

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Foreword

This volume seeks to present the essentials of both Ancient and Modern Progress in compact form suited to the compre¬ hension of young students.

My aim has been to select topics that make the past live again and that at the same time form a continuous story and prepare best for an understanding of the problems of modern life.

Willis M. West y;C'

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Contents

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List of Illustrations . .ix

List of Maps .xviii

Part I —the World Before The Greeks Chapter

I. Men before Writing.1

II. Bronze-Age Men in Egypt. 9

III. Men of the Euphrates and Tigris .... 29

IV. The Persian Empire. 41

V. Middle States — Phoenicians and Hebrews . . 46

Part II — The Greeks VI

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XII.

XIII.

Aegean Civilization, 3500-1200 b.c.

The Greeks of Homer .

From the Trojan to the Persian War, 1000-500

Greeks and Persians .

Athenian Leadership, 478-431 b.c .

The Athenian Empire in Peace .

Everyday Life in the Age of Pericles .

The Peloponnesian War and the Fall of Hellas

Part III —the Graeco-oriental World

XIV. Alexander Joins East and West .... 135

XV. The Hellenistic World, 323-150 b.c. . . . 140

Part IV —rome

XVI. Land and People. 148

XVII. The Early Republic, 226 b.c. 157

XVIII. United Italy under Roman Rule after 266 b.c. . 164

XIX. The Winning of the World, 264-164 b.c. . . 174

XX. Strife between Rich and Poor, 146-49 b.c. . . 183

XXI. The Gracchi, 133-121 b.c. 192

XXII. The Senate and Military Chiefs .... 197

Marius and Sulla; Pompey and Caesar vi

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Part V —the Roman Empire Chapter Page

XXIII. Founding the Empire, 49-31 b.c. . . . 204

XXIV. The Emperors of the First Two Centuries,

XXV. The Early Empire to 180 a.d. . . ' . . 219

XXVI. The Later Empire : Decline and Fall . . 229

XXVII. The Victory of Christianity .... 237

Part VI — Romano-teutonic Europe

XXVIII. Merging of Roman and Teuton, 378-800 a.d. . 244

XXIX. Charlemagne’s Empire.259

XXX. The Feudal Age, 800-1300 . 265

New Barbarian Attacks; Britain Becomes England; Feudalism; The Church; England in the Feudal Age; Other Lands

XXXI. Age of the Crusades, 1100-1300 . . . 294

The Crusades; Rise of Towns; Learning and Art

Part VII —age Of The Renaissance

XXXII. England and France, 1300-1500 . . . 305

XXXIII. Other European States.313

XXXIV. The Renaissance.321

Part VIII —the Protestant Reformation

XXXV. The Reformation upon the Continent . . 329

Lutheranism; Calvinism; Counter-Reformation

XXXVI. England and the Protestant Movement . . 339

XXXVII. A Century of Religious Wars .... 348

Spain and Holland; The French Huguenots; The Thirty Years’ War in Germany

Part IX —from The Peace Of Westphalia To The French Revolution

XXXVIII. Science and Trade.357

XXXIX. Puritanism and Politics in England . . 368

The First Stuarts; The Great Rebellion and the Commonwealth; the Restoration and the “Glo¬ rious” Revolution of 1688; the development of parties and of Cabinet government

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XL. Expansion of Europe into New Worlds . . 386

XLI. Despots and Wars.392

Age of Louis XIV and of Frederick II; the Rise of Russia; the American Revolution

Part X —the French Revolution

XLII. France (and Europe) Before the Revolution . 404 XLIII. The Revolution in Peace (1789-1791) . . 4 412

XLIV. The Revolution in War Time .... 420 XLV. Bonaparte and the Consulate .... 432

XLVI. Napoleon and the Empire.438

Part XI —reaction, 1815-1848

XLVII. Reaction in the Saddle, 1815-1820 . . . 448

The Congress of Vienna; the Rule of Metternich XLVIII. Unsuccessful Revolutions, 1820-1830 . . . 457

XLIX. England and the Industrial Revolution . . 465

L. The Revolution in the Lives of the Workers . 473

Part XII — Continental Europe Rearranged, 1848-1871

LI. “The Year of Revolutions,” 1848 . . . 480

In France; In Central Europe — Austrian Empire and Germany; In Italy

LII. From the Year of Revolutions to the Franco-

Prussian War.492

The “Second Empire” in France; “Italy Is Made”; Making of Germany

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LXI. Science and Social Progress .595

LXII. World Politics to 1914 .601

Encroachments upon Africa and Asia; Japan; China; European Alliances; International Arbi¬ tration