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   How the Greeks Defended Europe Against an Asiatic Invasion and Drove the Persians Back Across the Ægean Sea ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   How Athens and Sparta Fought a Long and Disastrous War for the Leadership of Greece ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   Alexander the Macedonian Establishes a Greek World-Empire and What Became of This High Ambition ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   A Short Summary of Chapters 1 to 20 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   The Semitic Colony of Carthage on the Northern Coast of Africa and the Indo-European City of Rome on the West Coast of Italy Fought Each Other for the Possession of the Western Mediterranean and Carthage Was Destroyed ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   88

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   How Rome Happened ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   How the Republic of Rome, After Centuries of Unrest and Revolution, Became an Empire ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   The Story of Joshua of Nazareth, Whom the Greeks Called Jesus ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   119

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    The Twilight of Rome ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    How Rome Became the Centre of the Christian World ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    Ahmed, the Camel Driver, Who Became the Prophet of the Arabian Desert, and Whose Followers Almost Conquered the Entire Known World for the Greater Glory of Allah, the "Only True God" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    138

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    How Charlemagne, the King of the Franks, Came to Bear the Title of Emperor and Tried to Revive the Old Ideal of World-Empire ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    144

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    Why the People of the Tenth Century Prayed the Lord to Protect Them from the Fury of the Norsemen ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    How Central Europe, Attacked from Three Sides, Became an Armed Camp and Why Europe Would Have Perished Without Those Professional Soldiers and Administrators Who Were Part of the Feudal System ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    Chivalry ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Strange Double Loyalty of the People of the Middle Ages, and How It Led to Endless Quarrels Between the Popes and the Holy Roman Emperors ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    162