The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Volum 1

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Macmillan, 1921 - 1171 pàgines
 

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THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE
18
THE AGE OF REPTILES
25
CHAPTER X
34
THE AGE OF MAMMALS
37
Some Oligocene Mammals
39
THE ANCESTRY OF
46
Time Diagram of the Glacial Ages
47
Bushwoman
54
THE NEANDERTHAL MEN AN EXTINCT RACE
55
Early Stone Implements
60
Australia and the Western Pacific in the Glacial
67
WRITING
74
The age of cultivation begins
77
Reindeer Age Engravings and Carvings
79
EARLY THOUGHT
92
A Menhir of the Neolithic Period
101
THE RACES OF MANKIND
106
Negro Types
112
THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
117
American Indian PictureWriting
122
THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
131
SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES
155
A Votary of the Snake Goddess
161
Picture writing 2 Syllable writing 3 Alphabet writing 4 The place of writing in human life
168
GODS AND STARS PRIESTS AND KINGS 1 The priest comes into history 2 Priests and the stars
177
Pharaoh Akhnaton
192
The common man in ancient times 2 The earliest slaves 3 The first independent persons 4 Social classes three thousand years ago 5 Classes hardenin...
196
Brawl among Egyptian Boatmen Pyramid Age
201
THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS 1 The place of the Israelites in history 2 Saul David and Solomon 3 The Jews a people of mix...
217
The Land of the Hebrews
219
THE ARYANSPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES 1 The spreading of the Aryanspeakers 2 Primitive Aryan life 3 Early Aryan daily li...
236
Aryanspeaking Peoples 1000500 B C Map
237
CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES
241
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252
Greek Sea Fight 550 B C
253
Median and Second Babylonian Empires in Nebuchadnezzars Reign
270
Wars of the Greeks and Persians Map
280
Persian Bodyguard from Frieze at Susa
287
Athene of the Parthenon
296
Philip of Macedon
302
THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
310
Growth of Macedonia under Philip
313
Breakup of Alexanders Empire
339
SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA
342
THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM
354

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Pàgina 491 - While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Pàgina 491 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven : and come take up the cross, and follow me.
Pàgina 492 - And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
Pàgina 1015 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Pàgina 223 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Pàgina 220 - Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
Pàgina 493 - And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man : for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 15 Shall we give, or shall we not give?
Pàgina 223 - And it came to pass on the morrow when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.
Pàgina 228 - And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
Pàgina 221 - And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel : because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

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