viii Outlines of European History CHAPTER PAGE 25. The Industrial and Commercial Revolution .... 148 26. Rise of the Democracy and the Age of the Tyrants . 153 27. Civilization in the Age of the Tyrants 159 VII. The Repulse of Persia and the Athenian Empire 28. The Struggle with Persia 166 29. The Rise of the Athenian Empire 178 30. Civilization of Imperial Athens in the Age of Pericles . 184 VIII. The Destruction of the Athenian Empire and the End of Greek Power 3 1 . The Second Peloponnesian War and the Fall of Athens 196 32. The Higher Life of Athens after Pericles 203 33. The Age of Spartan Leadership 208 34. The Leadership of Thebes 212 IX. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age 35. The Rise of Macedonia 215 36. Campaigns of Alexander the Great 217 37. International Policy of Alexander: its Personal Con- sequences 224 38. The Heirs of Alexander's Empire 229 39. The Civilization of the Hellenistic Age ' 232 X. The Western World and Rome to the Fall of the Republic 40. The Western Mediterranean World and Early Italy . 241 41. Earliest Rome 247 42. The Expansion of the Roman Republic 254 43. The Carthaginian Wars 258 44. World Dominion and Civil War 261 XL The Roman Empire to the Triumph of Christianity 45. The Reign of Augustus 271 46. Civilization after Augustus and its Decline 282 47. Popularity of Oriental Religions and the Spread of Early Christianity 296 48. Internal Revolution and the Collapse of Ancient Civi- lization 301 49. The Triumph of Christianity 306 50. Retrospect , , , , , 31Q