Ancient times, a history of the early world : an introduction to the study of ancient history and the career of early man

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xx, 742 pages, 33 unnumbered leaves of plates : 20 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-731) and index Includes marginal notes pt. I. The earliest Europeans -- Early mankind in Europe -- pt. II. The Orient -- The story of Egypt: the earliest Nile-dwellers -- The story of Egypt: the feudal age and the Empire -- Western Asia: Babylonia -- The Assyrians and Chaldeans -- The Medo-Persian Empire -- The Hebrews and the decline of the Orient -- pt. III. The Greeks -- The dawn of European civilization and the rise of the eastern Mediterranean world -- The Greek conquest of the Aegean world -- Greek civilization in the age of the kings -- The age of the nobles and Greek expansion in the Mediterranean -- The industrial revolution and the Age of Tyrants -- The repulse of Persia -- The growing rivalry between Athens and Sparta, and the rise of the Athenian Empire -- Athens in the age of Pericles -- The struggle between Athens and Sparta and the fall of the Athenian Empire -- The final conflicts among the Greek states -- The higher life of the Greeks from the death of Pericles to the fall of the Greek states -- Alexander the Great -- pt. IV. The Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic Age and the Roman Republic -- The heirs of Alexander -- The civilization of the Hellenistic Age -- The western Mediterranean world and the Roman conquest of Italy -- The supremacy of the Roman Republic in Italy and the rivalry with Carthage -- The Roman conquest of the western Mediterranean world -- World dominion and degeneracy -- A century of revolution and the end of the Republic -- pt. V. The Roman Empire -- The first of two centuries of peace: the age of Augustus and the succession of his line -- The second century of peace and the civilization of the early Roman Empire -- A century of revolution and the division of the Empire -- The triumph of the barbari