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A Short History of the World

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

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

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The World in Space	Kristine Bekere	00:06:11
Play 02	The World in Time	Kristine Bekere	00:06:14
Play 03	The Beginnings of Life	Kristine Bekere	00:06:12
Play 04	The Age of Fishes	Kristine Bekere	00:09:07
Play 05	The Age of the Coal Swamps	Kristine Bekere	00:09:39
Play 06	The Age of Reptiles	Kristine Bekere	00:08:59
Play 07	The First Birds and the First Mammals	Kristine Bekere	00:10:08
Play 08	The Age of Mammals	Kristine Bekere	00:09:17
Play 09	Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men	Kristine Bekere	00:09:13
Play 10	The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man	Kristine Bekere	00:09:11
Play 11	The First True Men	Kristine Bekere	00:09:51
Play 12	Primitive Thought	Kristine Bekere	00:10:18
Play 13	The Beginnings of Cultivation	Kristine Bekere	00:10:21
Play 14	Primitive Neolithic Civilizations	Kristine Bekere	00:10:56
Play 15	Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing	Kristine Bekere	00:10:01
Play 16	Primitive Nomadic Peoples	Kristine Bekere	00:09:21
Play 17	The First Sea-Going Peoples	Kristine Bekere	00:11:07
Play 18	Egypt, Babylon And Assyria	Kristine Bekere	00:14:50
Play 19	The Primitive Aryans	Kristine Bekere	00:10:37
Play 20	The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I	Kristine Bekere	00:09:11
Play 21	The Early History of the Jews	Kristine Bekere	00:12:08
Play 22	Priests and Prophets in Judea	Kristine Bekere	00:09:58
Play 23	The Greeks	Kristine Bekere	00:12:24
Play 24	The Wars of the Greeks and Persians	Kristine Bekere	00:09:24
Play 25	The Splendour of Greece	Kristine Bekere	00:08:16
Play 26	The Empire of Alexander the Great	Kristine Bekere	00:09:47
Play 27	The Museum and Library at Alexandria	Kristine Bekere	00:12:16
Play 28	The Life of Gautama Buddha	Kristine Bekere	00:12:15
Play 29	King Asoka	Kristine Bekere	00:04:45
Play 30	Confucius and Lao Tse	Kristine Bekere	00:12:10
Play 31	Rome Comes into History	Kristine Bekere	00:11:53
Play 32	Rome and Carthage	Kristine Bekere	00:09:39
Play 33	The Growth of the Roman Empire	Kristine Bekere	00:25:10
Play 34	Between Rome and China	Kristine Bekere	00:10:30
Play 35	The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire	Kristine Bekere	00:13:56
Play 36	Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire	Kristine Bekere	00:14:39
Play 37	The Teaching of Jesus	Kristine Bekere	00:13:42
Play 38	The Development of Doctrinal Christianity	Kristine Bekere	00:08:35
Play 39	The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West	Kristine Bekere	00:10:24
Play 40	The Huns and the End of the Western Empire	Kristine Bekere	00:12:38
Play 41	The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires	Kristine Bekere	00:10:05
Play 42	The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China	Kristine Bekere	00:04:46
Play 43	Muhammad and Islam	Kristine Bekere	00:08:14
Play 44	The Great Days of the Arabs	Kristine Bekere	00:08:02
Play 45	The Development of Latin Christendom	Kristine Bekere	00:17:38
Play 46	The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion	Kristine Bekere	00:20:38
Play 47	Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism	Kristine Bekere	00:20:32
Play 48	The Mongol Conquests	Kristine Bekere	00:10:57
Play 49	The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans	Kristine Bekere	00:21:06
Play 50	The Reformation of the Latin Church	Kristine Bekere	00:09:11
Play 51	The Emperor Charles V	Kristine Bekere	00:20:03
Play 52	The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe	Kristine Bekere	00:24:41
Play 53	The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas	Kristine Bekere	00:11:23
Play 54	The American War of Independence	Kristine Bekere	00:12:04
Play 55	The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France	Kristine Bekere	00:18:22
Play 56	The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon	Kristine Bekere	00:10:11
Play 57	The Development of Material Knowledge	Kristine Bekere	00:20:57
Play 58	The Industrial Revolution	Kristine Bekere	00:10:25
Play 59	The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas	Kristine Bekere	00:27:47
Play 60	The Expansion of the United States	Kristine Bekere	00:18:37
Play 61	The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe	Kristine Bekere	00:04:14
Play 62	The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway	Kristine Bekere	00:13:22
Play 63	European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan	Kristine Bekere	00:11:58
Play 64	The British Empire in 1914	Kristine Bekere	00:04:58
Play 65	The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18	Kristine Bekere	00:10:43
Play 66	The Revolution and Famine in Russia	Kristine Bekere	00:11:28
Play 67	The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World	Kristine Bekere	00:14:37
Play 68	Chronological table	Kristine Bekere	00:29:36

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