| PAGE | ||
| The Saurian Age | [Frontispiece, Vol.] | [1] |
| Scene from the Prehistoric World: Early Ice Age | Facing | [96] |
| Prehistoric Men Attacking the Great Cave Bears | “ | [114] |
| The Beginnings of Commerce | “ | [192] |
| Carrying Off an Emperor | Frontispiece, Vol. | 2 |
| Buddha, “The Light of Asia” | Facing | 562 |
| Four Famous Figures in Chinese History | “ | 754 |
| The Colour of India | Frontispiece, Vol. | 3 |
| Gems of Indian Architecture | Facing | 1154 |
| Indian Temples | “ | 1196 |
| Nineveh in the Days of Assyria’s Ascendancy | Frontispiece, Vol. | 4 |
| Two Indian Scenes | Facing | 1364 |
| Spring Carnival at a Tibetan Monastery | “ | 1436 |
| The Pyramids of Abusir | Frontispiece, Vol. | 5 |
| Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans | Facing | 1860 |
| Palace of an Assyrian King | “ | 1956 |
| The Sphinx | “ | 1996 |
| Alexander, the World Conqueror | Frontispiece, Vol. | 6 |
| The Acropolis of Athens | Facing | 2504 |
| An Arab Storyteller | Frontispiece, Vol. | 7 |
| Theodora, the Byzantine Empress | Facing | 2906 |
| Glimpse of the Life in a Turkish Harem | “ | 2994 |
| Primitive Justice | Frontispiece, Vol. | 8 |
| Thaddeus Reyten at the Diet of Warsaw | Facing | 3282 |
| Roland | “ | 3484 |
| Prince Arthur and Hubert | Frontispiece, Vol. | 9 |
| Venerable Bede Dictating His Translation of the Gospel of St. John | Facing | 3716 |
| “The Vigil”: A Knight of the Middle Ages | “ | 3788 |
| Alfred, the Hero King of England | “ | 3834 |
| King John Granting Magna Charta | “ | 3865 |
| Crusaders Sighting Jerusalem | Frontispiece, Vol. | 10 |
| Wolsey’s Last Interview with Henry VIII | Facing | 4168 |
| Charles I on His Way to Execution | “ | 4340 |
| Charles II Visiting Wren | Frontispiece, Vol. | 11 |
| Napoleon the Great | Facing | 4636 |
| “Peace with Honour” | Frontispiece, Vol. | 12 |
| The French Soldiers’ Unrealised Dream of Victory | Facing | 5104 |
| Recessional | Frontispiece, Vol. | 13 |
| The Conqueror’s Gift to London | Facing | 5464 |
| King Edward VII | “ | 5614 |
| Clio, “The Muse of History” | Frontispiece, Vol. | 14 |
| Flags that Fly in the Four Winds of Heaven | Facing | 5874 |
| Statue of Liberty | Frontispiece, Vol. | 15 |
| Hope | Facing | Index |
LIST OF MAPS
APPEARING IN THE BOOK OF HISTORY
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| The World as Known to its First Historian | [8] |
| Shifting of the Centre of the World’s Commerce | [28] |
| How the Mediterranean has Given Place to the Atlantic | [29] |
| The First Maps | [51] |
| Modern Representation of the World | [52] |
| The Europeanisation of the World | [55] |
| The Shaping of the Face of the Earth | [85] |
| How Mountain Ranges were formed | [87] |
| Europe Before the British Isles were Formed | [118] |
| The Submerged Lands of Europe | [119] |
| Europe in the Ice Age | [155] |
| Egypt in Three Periods | [243] |
| Babylonia | [260] |
| Sea Routes of Ancient Civilisation | [283] |
| Land Routes of Ancient Civilisation | [284] |
| How Civilisation Spread through Europe | [359] |
| The Expansion of White Races | [361] |
| The Island that Rules the Sea | [378] |
| Oceans of the World | [383] |
| Effect of Climate on the Course of History | [391] |
| Political Expansion | [396] |
| Relation of Rivers and Sea to the Civilisation of Countries | [397] |
| [South America] | |
| [Africa] | |
| [Europe] | |
| The Far East, and Australia, Oceania and Malaysia | [406] |
| The Island Empire of Japan | [432] |
| Japan in the Fifth Century | 457 |
| Siberia | 634 |
| Movement of the Peoples of Siberia | 656 |
| Russia’s Advance in Western Asia | 676 |
| Growth of Russia in the Far East | 677 |
| The Trans-Siberian Line | 692 |
| The Chinese Empire | 708 |
| Korea and its Surroundings | 858 |
| The Malay Archipelago | 886 |
| Islands of Oceania | 947 |
| New Zealand | 986 |
| Australia and Tasmania | 1010 |
| Britain Contrasted with Australia | 1012 |
| South-east Australia, Indicating Products | 1013 |
| Bed of the Pacific Ocean | 1102 |
| The Middle East | 1120 |
| Modern India | 1161 |
| India in 1801 | 1266 |
| Bed of the Indian Ocean and China Sea | 1419 |
| Suez Canal | 1434 |
| Mountain Systems In and Around Tibet | 1457 |
| The Approach of Lhasa | 1505 |
| Early Empires of the Ancient Near East | 1562 |
| Later Empires of the Ancient Near East | 1563 |
| Ancient Empires of Western Asia | 1582 |
| Modern Africa | 2001 |
| Races and Religions of Africa | 2005 |
| Natural Products of Africa | 2009 |
| Basin of the River Nile | 2022 |
| Delta of the River Nile | 2024 |
| Utica as it Was | 2188 |
| The Remains of Utica | 2189 |
| Ancient States of Mediterranean North Africa | 2191 |
| Niger River and Guinea Coast | 2229 |
| Great Britain in South Africa | 2322 |
| Basin of the Zambesi | 2332 |
| Basin of the Congo | 2347 |
| General Map of Europe | 2356 |
| Geographical Connection of the Mediterranean Coasts | 2373 |
| Ancient Greece | 2482 |
| World Empire of Alexander the Great | 2561 |
| Italy in the First Century B.C. | 2621 |
| The Roman Empire | 2738 |
| Origin of the Barbaric Nations | 2797 |
| Principal Countries of Eastern Europe | 2894 |
| World’s Great Empires Between 777 and 814 A.D. | 2934 |
| Turkey and Surrounding Countries in the 14th and 17th Centuries | 3082 |
| Historical Maps of Poland and Western Russia | 3220 |
| Western Europe in the Middle Ages | 4138 |
| Europe During the Revolutionary Era | 4636 |
| Modern Europe | 4788 |
| Britain’s Maritime Enterprise | 5440 |
| The British Empire in 1702 | 5462 |
| The British Empire in 1909 | 5463 |
| The Atlantic Ocean | 5656 |
| South America in the Sixteenth Century | 5915 |
| South America as it is To-day | 5983 |
| North Pole, with routes of Explorers | 6014 |
| South Pole | 6045 |
| North America | 6431 |
This is the story of the earth from the first thing we know of it to the time in which we live. It is the story of man from the first thing we know of him to the last thought that the vision of modern science can suggest.
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THERE is no need here to discuss the question how far it is possible to write a universal history, or on what lines such a history should proceed. These points may well be left where Lord Bryce leaves them in his introduction to this book. Nor need we consider what history is; the plain man may be left to make up his own mind as to that while the philosophers are making up theirs. A word may be said, however, of the plan and purpose of this work, especially of that distinction of it which is at once the ground of its appeal and its justification.
A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE