Story Of The World: A Simple History For Boys And Girls

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - History

Authors: Elizabeth O'Neill In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

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The Coming of Man
The Jews and the Phoenicians
The Greeks
The Athens of Pericles and Socrates
The Greek Colonies in the West
The Peloponnesian War
The Last Days of Greek Independence
Greece and Macedonia
The Rise of Rome
Rome and the Celts
Rome Mistress of Italy
Rome and Carthage
Rome and the East
Last Days of the Roman Republic
Early Days of the Roman Empire
The Barbarians and the Empire
The New Nations
The Beginnings of Mohammedanism
Charles the Great and the Holy Roman Empire
The Days of the Northmen
The Great Pope Hildebrand
The Crusades
The Monks and the People in the Time of the Crusades
The Thirteenth Century
St. Dominic and St. Francis
The Black Death
The End of the Middle Ages
The Beginnings of Modern Times
A New World
Christopher Columbus
The Reformation
The Counter-Reformation
England and Spain
The Seventeenth Century
The Pilgrim Fathers
The Age of Louis XIV
The East of Europe in the Seventeenth Century
The Eighteenth Century
The Story of India
The Story of Canada
American Independence
Australasia
The French Revolution
The Story of Napoleon
The Remaking of Europe
Africa--The Land of Mystery
The Story of China and Japan
Our World Today

Dedicatory Letter. Dear Doris, I could not tell you all the things which have ever happened in the world, but I have tried to tell you shortly about all the most important things from the very beginning, even before people had come into the World at all, right down to our own wonderful times. I have chosen the greatest men and women to tell you about, and in reading their stories I hope you will understand better something of what the times were like in which they lived, and what the other people too were like who were not so great and the kind of lives they led. The pictures in the book are not like those in most of the books you see and read, because most of them are not pictures made by people who are alive now, but they are copies of pictures, and statues, and buildings made by the very people you are reading about in the book. When you are reading about the Egyptians you get a picture of a pyramid made by the Egyptians themselves 6000 years ago. When you read about the Greeks you find pictures of statues of great Greek statesmen made by great Greek artists long ago, and so on. In the Middle Ages you are given pictures from the beautiful stained glass windows and the wonderful manuscripts which the people of the Middle Ages knew so well how to make. Sometimes the drawing may seem a little curious to you, but it is much more interesting for you to have these pictures than imaginative pictures made by people who are living now. Just as all the pictures are true so all the stories are true too. Indeed, there were many tales I could have told you which are often told to children as history, but are not true at all. I hope you will like those I have told just as well, for after all history should be true. Very affectionately I dedicate the book to you. - Summary by Elizabeth ONeill