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The Story Of The World: A Simple History For Boys And Girls

The Story Of The World: A Simple History For Boys And Girls

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Number of Chapters: 48

Length: 18 hours and 01 minute

Language: English

Dedicatory Letter. Dear Doris, I could not tell you all the things which have ever happened in the world, but I have tried to tell you shortly about all the most important things from the very beginning, even before people had come into the World at all, right down to our own wonderful times. I have chosen the greatest men and women to tell you about, and in reading their stories I hope you will understand better something of what the times were like in which they lived, and what the other people too were like who were not so great and the kind of lives they led. The pictures in the book are not like those in most of the books you see and read, because most of them are not pictures made by people who are alive now, but they are copies of pictures, and statues, and buildings made by the very people you are reading about in the book. When you are reading about the Egyptians you get a picture of a pyramid made by the Egyptians themselves 6000 years ago. When you read about the Greeks you find pictures of statues of great Greek statesmen made by great Greek artists long ago, and so on. In the Middle Ages you are given pictures from the beautiful stained glass windows and the wonderful manuscripts which the people of the Middle Ages knew so well how to make. Sometimes the drawing may seem a little curious to you, but it is much more interesting for you to have these pictures than imaginative pictures made by people who are living now. Just as all the pictures are true so all the stories are true too. Indeed, there were many tales I could have told you which are often told to children as history, but are not true at all. I hope you will like those I have told just as well, for after all history should be true. Very affectionately I dedicate the book to you. - Summary by Elizabeth ONeill

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The Coming of Man (lisad)
The Jews and the Phoenicians (lisad)
The Greeks (Christine Rottger)
The Athens of Pericles and Socrates (Rita Boutros)
The Greek Colonies in the West (Rita Boutros)
The Peloponnesian War (Rita Boutros)
The Last Days of Greek Independence (Rita Boutros)
Greece and Macedonia (Christine Rottger)
The Rise of Rome (TR Love)
Rome and the Celts (TR Love)
Rome Mistress of Italy (TR Love)
Rome and Carthage (TR Love)
Rome and the East (TR Love)
Last Days of the Roman Republic (TR Love)
Early Days of the Roman Empire (TR Love)
The Barbarians and the Empire (Kerry Adams)
The New Nations (Kerry Adams)
The Beginnings of Mohammedanism (Kerry Adams)
Charles the Great and the Holy Roman Empire (Wayne Cooke)
The Days of the Northmen (Wayne Cooke)
The Great Pope Hildebrand (Andy Glover)
The Crusades (Tulustan)
The Monks and the People in the Time of the Crusades (andrewframe)
The Thirteenth Century (jenno)
St. Dominic and St. Francis (jenno)
The Black Death (jenno)
The End of the Middle Ages (andrewframe)
The Beginnings of Modern Times (Paul Lawley-Jones)
A New World (Andy Glover)
Christopher Columbus (Wayne Cooke)
The Reformation (fshort)
The Counter-Reformation (andrewframe)
England and Spain (andrewframe)
The Seventeenth Century (Andy Glover)
The Pilgrim Fathers (Ruth P.)
The Age of Louis XIV (Rita Boutros)
The East of Europe in the Seventeenth Century (Andy Glover)
The Eighteenth Century (Andy Glover)
The Story of India (Victor Seremet)
The Story of Canada (Rita Boutros)
American Independence (Wayne Cooke)
Australasia (Victor Seremet)
The French Revolution (TR Love)
The Story of Napoleon (TR Love)
The Remaking of Europe (ToddHW)
Africa--The Land of Mystery (docdlmartin)
The Story of China and Japan (Silvia Wolf)
Our World Today (Wayne Cooke)
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