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