CHAPTER I. Before History was Written

II. Egypt down to 1500 B.C. III. Egyptian Religions, Sacred Writings, Etc. IV. Babylonia V. The Minoans in Crete VI. The Meeting of the Empires VII. The Jews and Israelites VIII. The Persians and the Greeks IX. The Glorious Days of Greece X. The Meeting of the Nations round Sicily XI. Macedon XII. Rome and Carthage XIII. Rome at Home and in the East XIV. Rome Mistress of the World XV. Troubles in the East XVI. The Dispersal of the Jews XVII. How the Threads draw together Index

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Great Pyramids, taken from an Aeroplane ... _Frontispiece_

A Baked Clay Tablet, inscribed with Babylonian Account of the Deluge _British Museum._

Cyperus Papyrus

Isis (with Horus) and Horus (with Symbols)

Bandaging a Mummy _Wilkinson._

Ancient Egyptian Machine for raising Water, identical with the "Shadoof" of the Present Day _Wilkinson._

Assyrian King in his Robes

Coin of Knossos

Battering-Ram

Sennacherib in his Chariot returning from Battle _Kouyurijik._

Greek Warrior, 7th-6th Century _Gerhard_, 207.

Corinthian Architecture _From Monument of Lysicrates._

Alexander the Great _From a Bust in the British Museum._

Gallic Warriors _From Bronzes in the British Museum._

Hannibal

Roman Legionaries

Slab from the Arch of Titus, representing the Spoils of Jerusalem borne in Triumph

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