It is designed to provide scholars and their teachers with an outline of the most important facts in the history of mankind up to the date of the firm establishment of the Roman Empire and the final destruction of Jerusalem—a date at which the various threads of the story come together to a point. In order to avoid confusing the learner, and to enable him to get a clear view of the most important facts, all less important facts and names and dates have been omitted.
With such an outline in his mind, the scholar, coming to the study of a particular nation or period, should be able to fit that nation or period into its proper place. In the absence of any such outline, he must necessarily be at a loss to know the bearing of this or that episode on the whole great story.
I have to record, very gratefully, my deep obligation to Mr. R. B. Lattimer for reading this book in MS., and for many valuable suggestions and emendations.
H. G. H.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. [Before History was Written]
II. [Egypt down to 1500 B.C.]
III. [Egyptian Religions, Sacred Writings, Etc.]
IV. [Babylonia]
V. [The Minoans in Crete]
VI. [The Meeting of the Empires]
VII. [The Jews and Israelites]
VIII. [The Persians and the Greeks]
IX. [The Glorious Days of Greece]
X. [The Meeting of the Nations round Sicily]
XI. [Macedon]
XII. [Rome and Carthage]
XIII. [Rome at Home and in the East]
XIV. [Rome Mistress of the World]
XV. [Troubles in the East]
XVI. [The Dispersal of the Jews]
XVII. [How the Threads draw Together]
[Index]