Short History of the World

by H. G. Wells

68 chapters13h 51mEnglish1922

About this book

A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on Earth, reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation.The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and the League of Nations in 1922. In 1934 Albert Einstein recommended the book for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilisation. - Summary adopted from Wikipedia

Chapters (68)

1The World in Space

371

2The World in Time

374

3The Beginnings of Life

372

4The Age of Fishes

547

5The Age of the Coal Swamps

579

6The Age of Reptiles

539

7The First Birds and the First Mammals

608

8The Age of Mammals

557

9Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men

553

10The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man

551

11The First True Men

591

12Primitive Thought

618

13The Beginnings of Cultivation

621

14Primitive Neolithic Civilizations

656

15Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing

601

16Primitive Nomadic Peoples

561

17The First Sea-Going Peoples

667

18Egypt, Babylon And Assyria

890

19The Primitive Aryans

637

20The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I

551

21The Early History of the Jews

728

22Priests and Prophets in Judea

598

23The Greeks

744

24The Wars of the Greeks and Persians

564

25The Splendour of Greece

496

26The Empire of Alexander the Great

587

27The Museum and Library at Alexandria

736

28The Life of Gautama Buddha

735

29King Asoka

285

30Confucius and Lao Tse

730

31Rome Comes into History

713

32Rome and Carthage

579

33The Growth of the Roman Empire

1510

34Between Rome and China

630

35The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire

836

36Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire

879

37The Teaching of Jesus

822

38The Development of Doctrinal Christianity

515

39The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West

624

40The Huns and the End of the Western Empire

758

41The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires

605

42The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China

286

43Muhammad and Islam

494

44The Great Days of the Arabs

482

45The Development of Latin Christendom

1058

46The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion

1238

47Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism

1232

48The Mongol Conquests

657

49The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans

1266

50The Reformation of the Latin Church

551

51The Emperor Charles V

1203

52The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe

1481

53The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas

683

54The American War of Independence

724

55The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France

1102

56The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon

611

57The Development of Material Knowledge

1257

58The Industrial Revolution

625

59The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas

1667

60The Expansion of the United States

1117

61The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe

254

62The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway

802

63European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan

718

64The British Empire in 1914

298

65The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18

643

66The Revolution and Famine in Russia

688

67The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World

877

68Chronological table

1776

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