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OUTLINES OF HISTORY;

ILL JSTRATED BY NUMEROUS

EOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES AND MAPS

EMBRACING

PART I. ANCIENT HISTORY.

PART II. MODERN HISTORY.

BY MARCIUS WILLSON,

AUTHOR OF "AMERICAN HISTORY," "HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,"

SCHOOL EDITION.

NEW YORK:

IVISON, PHINNEY, BLAKEMAN & CO.,
CHICAGO S. C. GRIGGS & CO.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
BEQUEST OF

DR. WILLIAM L. RICHARDSON
FEBRUARY 24, 1933

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
MARCIUS WILLSON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.

ANCIENT HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.

THE EARLY AGES OF THE WORLD PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF GRECIAN HISTORY.

L. The Creation-Antediluvian History.-II. Egyptian History.-III Asiatic History. Page 11-20

CHAPTER II.

FABULOUS AND LEGENDARY PERIOD OF GRECIAN HISTORY; ENDING WITH THE

CLOSE OF THE TROJAN WAR,-1183 B. C.

L. Geography of Greece.-II. Grecian Mythology.-III. Earliest inhabitants of Greece.-IV.

Foreign settlers in Greece.-V. The Hellenes.-VI. The Heroic Age........... Page 20-43.

CHAPTER III.

THE UNCERTAIAN PERIOD OF GRECIAN HISTORY: FROM THE CLOSE OF THE TROJAN

WAR TO THE FIRST WAR WITH PERSIA: 1183 TO 490 B. C.-693 YEARS.

J Thessalian conquest.-II. Boeotian conquest.-III. Æolian migration.-IV. Return of the

Heraclidae.-V. Institutions of Lycurgus.-VI. First Messenian War.-VII. Second Messe-

nian War.-VIII. Draco.-IX. Legislation of Solon.-X. Expulsion of the Pisistratids.—

XI. Ionic Revolt........
Page 43-58.

CHTEMPORARY HISTORY. I. Phoenician History.-II. Jewish History.-III. Roman History.-

IV. Persian History...
Page 58-73.

CHAPTER IV.

THE AUTHENTIC PERIOD OF GRECIAN HISTORY.

SECTION I.-FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST WAR WITH PERSIA, TO THE ESTABLISH

MENT OF PHILIP ON THE THRONE OF MACEDON: 490 to 360 B. c.-130 YEARS.

I. First Persian War.-II. Second Persian War.-III. Third Messenian War.-IV. First Pelo-

ponnesian War.-V. The Sicilian Expedition.-VI. Second Peloponnesian War.-VII. Third

Peloponnesian War.-VIII. Second Sacred War...
Page 73-92

SECTION IL-FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PHILIP ON THE THRONE OF MACEDON, TO THE

REDUCTION OF GREECE TO A ROMAN PROVINCE: 360 To 146 B. C.-214 YEARS.

L. Philip of Macedon.-II. Alexander the Great-his conquests, and death.-III. Achæan

League, and conquest of Greece by the Romans....
Page 92-111.

COTEMPORARY HISTORY.-I. History of the Jews.-II. Grecian Colonies.-III. Magna Græcia.

-IV. Cyrenaica...........
Page 111-123.

CHAPTER V.

ROMAN HISTORY, FROM THE FOUNDING OF ROME, 753 B. C., TO THE CONQUESTS

OF GREECE AND CARTHAGE, 146 B. C.-607 YEARS.

SECTION I. EARLY ITALY: ROME UNDER THE KINGS: ENDING 510 B. C.-243 YEARS.

L Italy.-II. Founding of Rome.-III. War with the Sabines.-IV. Numa.-V. Tullus Hos-

tilius.-VI. Ancus Martius.-VII. Tarquin the Elder.-VIII. Servius Tullius.-IX. Tarquin

the Proud.....

Page 123-134

SECTION II.-THE ROMAN REPUBLIC, FROM THE ABOLITION OF ROYALTY, 510 B. C., TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE WARS WITH CARTHAGE, 263 B. C.-247 YEARS.

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L Consuls.-II. Etruscan War.-III. Office of Dictator.--IV. Plebeian Insurrection.-V. Tri-

bunes of the People.-VI. Volscian and Equian wars.-VII. The Decemvirs.-VIII. Office

of Censors.-IX. War with Veii.-X. Gallic Invasion.-XI. Plebeian and Patrician con

tests.-XII. Office of Prætor.-XIII. First Samnite War.-XIV. Second Samnite War.-XV,

Third Samnite War.- XVI. War with the Tarentines and Pyrrhus......... Page 134-150,