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Short History of the World

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

Year of Publication: 1922Genres: History , *Non-fiction

Running Time: 13 hours 51 minutes 48 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	The World in Space Kristine Bekere	6:11
2	The World in Time Kristine Bekere	6:14
3	The Beginnings of Life Kristine Bekere	6:12
4	The Age of Fishes Kristine Bekere	9:07
5	The Age of the Coal Swamps Kristine Bekere	9:39
6	The Age of Reptiles Kristine Bekere	8:59
7	The First Birds and the First Mammals Kristine Bekere	10:08
8	The Age of Mammals Kristine Bekere	9:17
9	Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men Kristine Bekere	9:13
10	The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man Kristine Bekere	9:11
11	The First True Men Kristine Bekere	9:51
12	Primitive Thought Kristine Bekere	10:18
13	The Beginnings of Cultivation Kristine Bekere	10:21
14	Primitive Neolithic Civilizations Kristine Bekere	10:56
15	Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing Kristine Bekere	10:01
16	Primitive Nomadic Peoples Kristine Bekere	9:21
17	The First Sea-Going Peoples Kristine Bekere	11:07
18	Egypt, Babylon And Assyria Kristine Bekere	14:50
19	The Primitive Aryans Kristine Bekere	10:37
20	The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I Kristine Bekere	9:11
21	The Early History of the Jews Kristine Bekere	12:08
22	Priests and Prophets in Judea Kristine Bekere	9:58
23	The Greeks Kristine Bekere	12:24
24	The Wars of the Greeks and Persians Kristine Bekere	9:24
25	The Splendour of Greece Kristine Bekere	8:16
26	The Empire of Alexander the Great Kristine Bekere	9:47
27	The Museum and Library at Alexandria Kristine Bekere	12:16
28	The Life of Gautama Buddha Kristine Bekere	12:15
29	King Asoka Kristine Bekere	4:45
30	Confucius and Lao Tse Kristine Bekere	12:10
31	Rome Comes into History Kristine Bekere	11:53
32	Rome and Carthage Kristine Bekere	9:39
33	The Growth of the Roman Empire Kristine Bekere	25:10
34	Between Rome and China Kristine Bekere	10:30
35	The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire Kristine Bekere	13:56
36	Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire Kristine Bekere	14:39
37	The Teaching of Jesus Kristine Bekere	13:42
38	The Development of Doctrinal Christianity Kristine Bekere	8:35
39	The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West Kristine Bekere	10:24
40	The Huns and the End of the Western Empire Kristine Bekere	12:38
41	The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires Kristine Bekere	10:05
42	The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China Kristine Bekere	4:46
43	Muhammad and Islam Kristine Bekere	8:14
44	The Great Days of the Arabs Kristine Bekere	8:02
45	The Development of Latin Christendom Kristine Bekere	17:38
46	The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion Kristine Bekere	20:38
47	Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism Kristine Bekere	20:32
48	The Mongol Conquests Kristine Bekere	10:57
49	The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans Kristine Bekere	21:06
50	The Reformation of the Latin Church Kristine Bekere	9:11
51	The Emperor Charles V Kristine Bekere	20:03
52	The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe Kristine Bekere	24:41
53	The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas Kristine Bekere	11:23
54	The American War of Independence Kristine Bekere	12:04
55	The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France Kristine Bekere	18:22
56	The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon Kristine Bekere	10:11
57	The Development of Material Knowledge Kristine Bekere	20:57
58	The Industrial Revolution Kristine Bekere	10:25
59	The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas Kristine Bekere	27:47
60	The Expansion of the United States Kristine Bekere	18:37
61	The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe Kristine Bekere	4:14
62	The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway Kristine Bekere	13:22
63	European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan Kristine Bekere	11:58
64	The British Empire in 1914 Kristine Bekere	4:58
65	The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18 Kristine Bekere	10:43
66	The Revolution and Famine in Russia Kristine Bekere	11:28
67	The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World Kristine Bekere	14:37
68	Chronological table Kristine Bekere	29:36