CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Early Mankind in Europe 1. Earliest Man's Ignorance and Progress i 2. The Early Stone Age 3 3. The Middle Stone Age 6 4. The Late Stone Age 10 5. Late Stone Age Europe and the Orient 14 IL The Story of Egypt 6. Egypt and its Earliest Inhabitants 17 7. The Pyramid Age 27 8^ The Feudal Age , . 42 9. The Empire ■ 44 III. Western Asia: Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea 10. The Lands and Races of Western Asia 56 • II. The Earliest Babylonians _ 61 12. The Age of Hammurapi and after 67 13. Early Assyria and her Rivals 70 14. The Assyrian Empire (about 750 to 606 B.C.) 71 15. The Chaldean Empire : the Last Semitic Empire ... 80 IV. Western Asia: the Medo-Persian Empire and the Hebrews 16. The Indo-European Peoples and their Dispersion ... 86 17. The Aryan Peoples and the Iranian Prophet Zoroaster 91 18. The Persian Empire 95 19. The Hebrews , loi V. The Mediterranean World and the Early Greeks 20. The ^gean Civilization m 21. The Early Greeks 123 22. The Greek City-States under Kings 127 VI. The Age of the Nobles and the Tyrants in Greece 23. Civilization in the Age of the Nobles 136 24. Gr^ek Expansion in the Age of the Nobles 146 vii
