A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on Earth, reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation.The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and the League of Nations in 1922. In 1934 Albert Einstein recommended the book for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilisation. - Summary adopted from Wikipedia
The World in SpaceThe World in TimeThe Beginnings of LifeThe Age of FishesThe Age of the Coal SwampsThe Age of ReptilesThe First Birds and the First MammalsThe Age of MammalsMonkeys, Apes and Sub-MenThe Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian ManThe First True MenPrimitive ThoughtThe Beginnings of CultivationPrimitive Neolithic CivilizationsSumeria, Early Egypt And WritingPrimitive Nomadic PeoplesThe First Sea-Going PeoplesEgypt, Babylon And AssyriaThe Primitive AryansThe Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius IThe Early History of the JewsPriests and Prophets in JudeaThe GreeksThe Wars of the Greeks and PersiansThe Splendour of GreeceThe Empire of Alexander the GreatThe Museum and Library at AlexandriaThe Life of Gautama BuddhaKing AsokaConfucius and Lao TseRome Comes into HistoryRome and CarthageThe Growth of the Roman EmpireBetween Rome and ChinaThe Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman EmpireReligious Developments Under the Roman EmpireThe Teaching of JesusThe Development of Doctrinal ChristianityThe Barbarians Break the Empire into East and WestThe Huns and the End of the Western EmpireThe Byzantine and Sassanid EmpiresThe Dynasties of Suy And Tang in ChinaMuhammad and IslamThe Great Days of the ArabsThe Development of Latin ChristendomThe Crusades and the Age of Papal DominionRecalcitrant Princes and the Great SchismThe Mongol ConquestsThe Intellectual Revival of the EuropeansThe Reformation of the Latin ChurchThe Emperor Charles VThe Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in EuropeThe New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and OverseasThe American War of IndependenceThe French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in FranceThe Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of NapoleonThe Development of Material KnowledgeThe Industrial RevolutionThe Development of Modern Political and Social IdeasThe Expansion of the United StatesThe Rise of Germany to Predominance in EuropeThe New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and RailwayEuropean Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of JapanThe British Empire in 1914The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18The Revolution and Famine in RussiaThe Political and Social Reconstruction of the WorldChronological table
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