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H. G. Wells, Short History of the World, A — 68 episodes

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1

The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion

2

The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France

3

The Mongol Conquests

4

The Reformation of the Latin Church

5

The Development of Latin Christendom

6

The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West

7

The Huns and the End of the Western Empire

8

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

9

The Emperor Charles V

10

The Expansion of the United States

11

The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe

12

The Industrial Revolution

13

The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China

14

Chronological table

15

The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas

16

The Great Days of the Arabs

17

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

18

The American War of Independence

19

European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan

20

Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism

21

The Development of Material Knowledge

22

The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans

23

The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon

24

The Revolution and Famine in Russia

25

The British Empire in 1914

26

The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas

27

The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World

28

The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires

29

The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway

30

Muhammad and Islam

31

The World in Space

32

The Age of Fishes

33

The World in Time

34

Primitive Neolithic Civilizations

35

The Beginnings of Life

36

The Age of Reptiles

37

Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men

38

The Age of the Coal Swamps

39

Primitive Nomadic Peoples

40

Egypt, Babylon And Assyria

41

The Primitive Aryans

42

The Age of Mammals

43

The Greeks

44

The First Birds and the First Mammals

45

The First True Men

46

The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man

47

The Early History of the Jews

48

The Splendour of Greece

49

The Museum and Library at Alexandria

50

The First Sea-Going Peoples

51

Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire

52

The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I

53

Confucius and Lao Tse

54

Primitive Thought

55

Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing

56

King Asoka

57

The Wars of the Greeks and Persians

58

The Life of Gautama Buddha

59

Rome and Carthage

60

Rome Comes into History

61

The Beginnings of Cultivation

62

Between Rome and China

63

Priests and Prophets in Judea

64

The Empire of Alexander the Great

65

The Teaching of Jesus

66

The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire

67

The Development of Doctrinal Christianity

68

The Growth of the Roman Empire