A General History for Colleges and High Schools

Philip Van Ness Myers

Ginn, 1890 - 759 pages

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PART I	8

Political History	40

The Hebrews	63

The Phoenicians	70

GRECIAN HISTORY	87

CHAPTER PAGE XI Religion of the Greeks ΙΟΙ	101

the Early Growth of Sparta and of Athens 1 Age of the Tyrants and of Colonization	109

The Growth of Sparta	112

The Third Crusade	444

The Fourth Crusade	446

Their Results	447

Decline of its Temporal Power	452

Conquests of the Turanian Tribes	460

The Italian CityRepublics	464

The Revival of Learning	471

Formation of National Governments and Literatures	478

The Growth of Athens	117

The GræcoPersian Wars	125

Period of Athenian Supremacy	136

the Spartan and the Theban Supremacy 1 The Peloponnesian War	147

The Spartan and the Theban Supremacy	155

Empire of Alexander	159

States formed from the Empire of Alexander	170

Greek Architecture Sculpture and Painting 1 Architecture	176

Sculpture and Painting	182

Greek Literature 1 Epic and Lyric Poetry	190

The Drama and Dramatists	193

History and Historians	196

Oratory	198

Greek Philosophy and Science	203

Social Life of the Greeks	215

ROMAN HISTORY XXII The Roman Kingdom	221

CONTENTS vii	230

Conquest of Italy	232

The First Punic War	247

The Second Punic War	254

The Third Punic War	267

The Last Century of the Roman Republic	273

The Last Century of the Roman Republic concluded	285

The Roman Empire from 31 B C to A D 180	305

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the West A D	324

Roman Civilization	329

Architecture	350

Literature Philosophy and Law	354

Social Life	359

PART II	366

FIRST PERIOD THE DARK AGES From the Fall of Rome A D 476 to the Eleventh Century CHAPTER XXXII Migrations and Settlements of the T...	371

The Conversion of the Barbarians	377

Fusion of the Latin and Teutonic Peoples	385

The Roman Empire in the East	389

Mohammed and the Saracens	392

Charlemagne and the Restoration of the Empire in the West	403

The Northmen	410

Rise of the Papal Power	414

SECOND PERIOD THE AGE OF REVIVAL From the opening of the Eleventh Century to the Discovery of America by Columbus in 1492	421

Chivalry	429

The Norman Conquest of England	433

Causes of the Crusades	438

The First Crusade	441

The Second Crusade	443

England	479

France	491

Spain	498

Germany	501

Russia	508

Italy	509

The Northern Countries	512

MODERN HISTORY INTRODUCTION	513

THIRD PERIOD THE ERA OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION From the Discovery of America to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648	519

The Ascendency of Spain 1 Reign of the Emperor Charles V	530

Spain under Philip II	535

The Tudors and the English Reformation I Introductory	539

The Reign of Henry VII	541

England severed from the Papacy by Henry VIII	543

Changes in the Creed and Ritual under Edward VI	550

Reaction under Mary	552

Final Establishment of Protestantism under Elizabeth	554

Rise of the Dutch Republic	563

The Huguenot Wars in France	572

The Thirty Years War	582

FOURTH PERIOD THE ERA OF THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION From the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the present time LIV The Ascendency...	590

The English Revolution 1 The First Two Stuarts	601

The Commonwealth	613

CHAPTER PAGE 3 The Restored Stuarts	618

The OrangeStuarts	626

England under the Earlier Hanoverians	630

Peter the Great	633

Frederick the Great	642

The StatesGeneral of 1789	647

The National or Constituent Assembly 55550	651

The Legislative Assembly	655

The National Convention	657

The Directory	667

France since the Second Restoration I The Consulate and the Empire	673

France since the Second Restoration	688

Russia since the Congress of Vienna	692

German Freedom and Unity	700

Liberation and Unification of Italy	708

England since the Congress of Vienna 1 Progress towards Democracy	715

Expansion of the Principle of Religious Equality	720

Growth of the British Empire in the East	723

THE NEW AGE	729

INDEX PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY AND GLOSSARY	733

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Title	A General History for Colleges and High Schools
Author	Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher	Ginn, 1890
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	21 Nov 2007
Length	759 pages

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