General History in Outline and Story

    TIME MAPS

    a . Earliest Man

    ICE AGES with WARM TIMES between them.
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    1st Ice Age1st Warm Time2nd Ice Age2nd Warm Time3rd Ice Age3rd Warm Time4th Ice Age4th Warm timeWarm now
    ErectusOldest ManNeanderthalPresent Man

    b . From Stone to Iron
    50,00030,00010,0002,0001,00001,000today
    End 3rd Ice AgeEnd of 3rd WarmEnd 4th Ice Age4th Warm Time goes on now
    Old Stone AgeNew StoneBronzeIron Age

    c . The 5000 Years B.C.
    50004000300020001000 B.C.01000 A.D.
    EgyptiansBabyonians
    Assyrians
    JewsGreeksRomansMiddle Ages

    d . The Romans
    700600500400300200100 B.C.0
    Build RomeCity-StateKingsRepublic
      Carthage
      Empire

    e . The Roman Empire and the Church
    100 B.C.<- 0 ->100 A.D.200300400500
      Caesar
    JesusNeroConstantineBarbariansFall of Rome

    f . The Middle Ages
    500600700800900100011001200130014001500
    Fall of Rome
    Clovis
    Jostinian
    Constantinople
    Benedict
    Augustine
    Mohammed
    Islam CharlemagneNorthmen
      Hastings
    Canossa
    Clermont
    Francis
    Dominic
    Kublai KhanTamerlaneConstaninople Falls to Turks

    g . The Age of Renaissance.
    12501300135014001450 15001550160016501700
    Science   Bacon 1250 Copernicus
    Galalieo
    Newton
    Letters Dante 1265-1321Shakespeare 1564-1616
    DiscoveryMarco Polo da Gama
    Columbus
    Magellan
    Cortes
    Pizarro
    Cartier
    Drake
    ArtMichael Angelo
    da Vinci
    Raphael
    Titian
    Religion Wycliffe -1384 Huss -1415The Reformation Erasmus -1536
    Luther 1483-15??
    Ignatius -1556
    Calvin -1564
    Political Armada 1588Thirty Years War 1618-1648

    h . The Great Kings and the Growth of Colonies
    1500155016001650 17001750 1800
    Kings :
    Akbar
    Louis XIV 1643-1715
    Peter 1689-1725
    Frederick 1740-86
    Central AmericaSouth AmericaCanada
    East India
    Mayflower

    i . The Present Age (1).
    17751800182518501875190019251950
    American Rev
    Lincoln
    US Civil War
    French RevNapoleonEnglish?Bismarck
    Italy
    Crimean War
    Franco-Prussian
    WWILeague Nations
    New JapanRussian RevSoviet Union

    j . To The End of the 20th Century.
    1940195019601970 198019902000
    WW2Cold War
    Korea
    Soviet FallTerror
      UN


    DIVISIONS OF THE BOOK
    I . -- THE FIRST STAGE
    II . -- THE EARLY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EAST
    III. -- THE GREAT DAYS OF GREECE
    IV . -- THE GREAT DAYS OF ROME
    V . -- THE MIDDLE AGES
    VI . -- THE 'NEW BIRTH' OF EUROPE
    VII. -- NEW FORCES IN RELIGION AND THE GROWTH OF A NEW OUTLOOK
    VIII -- THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE OVERSEAS
    IX . -- THE 'GREAT KINGS' OF EUROPE
    X . -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    XI . -- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON
    XII. -- THE BIRTH OF NEW NATIONS
    XIII -- THE WORLD OF THE PRESENT DAY
    XIII -- TO THE END OF THE 20th CENTURY
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