CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]

Indo-European Migrations—Divisions of the Aryan Family into European Races—Laying the Foundations of the German Empire

[CHAPTER II.]

Hermann—Subdivisions of the Teutonic Race

[CHAPTER III.]

Ulfila—Migrations of Teutonic Races—Fall of Rome before Alaric—Hunnish Invasion—Modern Europe foreshadowed

[CHAPTER IV.]

Anglo-Saxon Occupation of Britain

[CHAPTER V.]

Teuton Occupation of Gaul—Final Severing of Connection with Roman Empire—Clovis, King of France—Merovingian Kings—Pippin—Beginning of Carlovingian Line

[CHAPTER VI.]

Charlemagne—Separation of France and Germany—Growth of Spiritual Power—Conflict between Pope Gregory VII. and Henry IV.—Entire Supremacy of the Church

[CHAPTER VII.]

Europe in the Hands of Three Men—Charles V., Francis I., and Henry VIII.—Indulgences sold by Leo X.—Birth of Protestantism

[CHAPTER VIII.]

Thirty Years' War—Decay of the German Empire

[CHAPTER IX.]

Napoleon Bonaparte—German Empire Extinct—Waterloo—German States confederated, with Austria at the Head

[CHAPTER X.]

Schleswig-Holstein—Bismarck—War with Austria—Königgrätz

[CHAPTER XI.]

Napoleon III.—War with France—Germans in Paris—William crowned German Emperor at Versailles

[CHAPTER XII.]

Death of Emperor William—Death of Frederick—William II. Emperor—His Policy—Situation in Europe