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Contents
M4Bs of Parts 1, 2 and 3 are available for separate downloads.
Foreward
Michelle Crandall
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01 The Setting of the Stage
Kara Shallenberg
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02 Our Earliest Ancestors
Michelle Crandall
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03 Prehistoric Man
Kara Shallenberg
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04 Hieroglyphics
Michelle Crandall
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05 The Nile Valley
Kara Shallenberg
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06 The Story of Egypt
Michelle Crandall
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07 Mesopotamia
Kara Shallenberg
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08 The Sumerians
Michelle Crandall
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09 Moses Kara Shallenberg
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10 The Phoenicians Michelle Crandall
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11 The Indo-Europeans Kara Shallenberg
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12 The Aegean Sea Michelle Crandall
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13 The Greeks Kara Shallenberg
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14 The Greek Cities Michelle Crandall
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15 Greek Self-Government Kara Shallenberg
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16 Greek Life Michelle Crandall
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17 The Greek Theatre Kara Shallenberg
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18 The Persian Wars Michelle Crandall
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19 Athens vs. Sparta Kara Shallenberg
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20 Alexander the Great Michelle Crandall
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21 A Summary Kara Shallenberg
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22 Rome and Carthage Michelle Crandall
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23 The Rise of Rome Kara Shallenberg
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24 The Roman Empire Michelle Crandall
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25 Joshua of Nazareth Kara Shallenberg
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26 The Fall of Rome Michelle Crandall
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27 The Rise of the Church Kara Shallenberg
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28 Mohammed Michelle Crandall
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29 Charlemagne Kara Shallenberg
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30 The Norsemen Michelle Crandall
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31 Feudalism Kara Shallenberg
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32 Chivalry Michelle Crandall
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33 Pope vs. Emperor Kara Shallenberg
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34 The Crusades Michelle Crandall
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35 The Mediaeval City Kara Shallenberg
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36 Mediaeval Self-Government Michelle Crandall
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37 The Mediaeval World Kara Shallenberg
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38 Mediaeval Trade Michelle Crandall
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39 The Renaissance Kara Shallenberg
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40 The Age of Expression Michelle Crandall
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41 The Great Discoveries Kara Shallenberg
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42 Buddha and Confucius Michelle Crandall
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43 The Reformation Kara Shallenberg
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44 Religious Warfare Michelle Crandall
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45 The English Revolution Kara Shallenberg
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46 The Balance of Power Michelle Crandall
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47 The Rise of Russia Kara Shallenberg
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48 Russia vs. Sweden Michelle Crandall
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49 The Rise of Prussia Kara Shallenberg
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50 The Mercantile System Michelle Crandall
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51 The American Revolution Kara Shallenberg
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52 The French Revolution Michelle Crandall
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53 Napoleon Kara Shallenberg
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54 The Holy Alliance Michelle Crandall
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55 The Great Reaction Kara Shallenberg
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56 National Independence Michelle Crandall
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57 The Age of the Engine Kara Shallenberg
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58 The Social Revolution Michelle Crandall
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59 Emancipation Kara Shallenberg
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60 The Age of Science Michelle Crandall
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61 Art Kara Shallenberg
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62 Colonial Expansion and War Michelle Crandall
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63 A New World Kara Shallenberg
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64 As It Ever Shall Be Michelle Crandall
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Description
History. Juvenile Nonfiction. HTML: The Story of Mankind revolutionized former methods of telling history. While it received the first Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, critics and public alike hailed it as a book for all ages. Van Loon recounts history as living news, relating everything in the past to the present. From Western civilization's earliest times through to the beginning of the twentieth century, he emphasizes the people and events that changed the course of history, writing informally to make world history wonderfully alive and exciting. Of this book the author writes, "The entrance of America upon the scene of international politics as the most important actor...convinced me that a proper and reasonable understanding of historical cause and effect was the most important factor in the lives of the rising generation. And so my book...treats the entire history of the human race as a single unit...It begins with the dim and hardly understood realm of the earliest past; it can be continued forever.".… (more)