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A Short History of the World — H.G. Wells
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The World in Space
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The World in Time
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The Beginnings of Life
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The Age of Fishes
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The Age of the Coal Swamps
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The Age of Reptiles
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The First Birds and the First Mammals
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The Age of Mammals
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Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men
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The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man
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The First True Men
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Primitive Thought
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The Beginnings of Cultivation
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Primitive Neolithic Civilizations
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Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing
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Primitive Nomadic Peoples
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The First Sea-Going Peoples
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Egypt, Babylon And Assyria
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The Primitive Aryans
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The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I
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The Early History of the Jews
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Priests and Prophets in Judea
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The Greeks
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The Wars of the Greeks and Persians
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The Splendour of Greece
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The Empire of Alexander the Great
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The Museum and Library at Alexandria
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The Life of Gautama Buddha
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King Asoka
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Confucius and Lao Tse
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Rome Comes into History
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Rome and Carthage
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The Growth of the Roman Empire
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Between Rome and China
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The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire
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Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire
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The Teaching of Jesus
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The Development of Doctrinal Christianity
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The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West
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The Huns and the End of the Western Empire
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The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
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The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China
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Muhammad and Islam
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The Great Days of the Arabs
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The Development of Latin Christendom
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The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion
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Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism
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The Mongol Conquests
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The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans
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The Reformation of the Latin Church
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The Emperor Charles V
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The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe
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The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas
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The American War of Independence
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The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France
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The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon
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The Development of Material Knowledge
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The Industrial Revolution
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The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas
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The Expansion of the United States
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The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe
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The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway
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European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan
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The British Empire in 1914
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The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18
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The Revolution and Famine in Russia
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The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World
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