A comprehensive and readable account of the world’s history- emphasizing the more important events- and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians.
Includes:
INSTITUTION AND FALL OF THE DECEMVIRATE IN ROME B.C. 450
PERICLES RULES IN ATHENS B.C. 444
GREAT PLAGUE AT ATHENS B.C. 430
DEFEAT OF THE ATHENIANS AT SYRACUSE B.C. 413
RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS B.C. 401-399
CONDEMNATION AND DEATH OF SOCRATES B.C. 399
BRENNUS BURNS ROME B.C. 388
TARTAR INVASION OF CHINA BY MEHA B.C. 341
ALEXANDER REDUCES TYRE: LATER FOUNDS ALEXANDRIA B.C. 332
THE BATTLE OF ARBELA B.C. 331
FIRST BATTLE BETWEEN GREEKS AND ROMANS B.C. 280-279
THE PUNIC WARS B.C. 264-219-149
BATTLE OF THE METAURUS B.C. 207
SCIPIO AFRICANUS CRUSHES HANNIBAL AT ZAMA AND SUBJUGATES CARTHAGE B.C. 202
JUDAS MACCABÆUS LIBERATES JUDEA B.C. 165
THE GRACCHI AND THEIR REFORMS B.C. 133
CAESAR CONQUERS GAUL B.C. 58-50
ROMAN INVASION AND CONQUEST OF BRITAIN B.C. 55 - A.D. 79
CLEOPATRA'S CONQUEST OF CÆSAR AND ANTONY B.C. 51-30
ASSASSINATION OF CÆSAR B.C. 44
ROME BECOMES A MONARCHY; DEATH OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA B.C. 44-30
GERMANS UNDER ARMINIUS REVOLT AGAINST ROME A.D. 9
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