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Title
The Outline of History Vol 2
Author
Herbert George Wells
Year
1920
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Location
New York
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SCHEME OF CONTENTS
BOOK VI (
Continued
)
PAGE
Chapter XXXII
. Muhammad and Arab Islam
§ 1.
Arabia before Muhammad
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
1
§ 2.
Life of Muhammad to the Hegira
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
4
§ 3.
Muhammad becomes a fighting prophet
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
8
§ 4.
The teachings of Islam
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
14
§ 5.
The caliphs Abu Bekr and Omar
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
16
§ 6.
The great days of the Omayyads
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
22
§ 7.
The decay of Islam under the Abbasids
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
31
§ 8.
The intellectual life of Arab Islam
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
34
Chapter XXXIII
. Christendom and the Crusades
§ 1.
The Western world at its lowest ebb
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
40
§ 2.
The feudal system
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
42
§ 3.
The Frankish kingdom of the Merovingians
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
46
§ 4.
The Christianization of the western barbarians
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
48
§ 5.
Charlemagne becomes emperor of the West
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
54
§ 6.
The personality of Charlemagne
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
59
§ 7.
The French and the Germans become distinct
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
61
§ 8.
The Normans, the Saracens, the Hungarians, and the Seljuk Turks
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
64
§ 9.
How Constantinople appealed to Rome
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
72
§ 10.
The Crusades
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
76
§ 11.
The Crusades a test of Christianity
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
84
§ 12.
The Emperor Frederick II
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
86
§ 13.
Defects and limitations of the papacy
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
90
§ 14.
A list of leading Popes
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
96
BOOK VII
THE GREAT MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS
AND THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE SEA WAYS
Chapter XXXIV
. The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and his Successors
§ 1.
Asia at the end of the twelfth century
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
105
§ 2.
The rise and victories of the Mongols
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
108
§ 3.
The travels of Marco Polo
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
114
§ 4.
The Ottoman Turks, the Turkish Caliph, and Constantinople
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
120
§ 5.
Why the Mongols were not Christianized
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
126
§ 5
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.
Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
127
§ 5
b
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The Mongols revert to tribalism
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
128
§ 5
c
.
The Kipchak empire and the Tsar of Muscovy
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
128
§ 5
d
.
Timurlane
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
130
§ 5
e
.
The Mongol empire of India
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
133
§ 5
f
.
The Mongols and the Gipsies
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
137
Chapter XXXV
. The Renascence of Western Civilization
§ 1.
Christianity and popular education
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
139
§ 2.
Europe begins to think for itself
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
148
§ 3.
The Great Plague and the dawn of communism
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
153
§ 4.
How paper liberated the human mind
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
158
§ 5.
Protestantism of the princes and Protestantism of the peoples
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
160
§ 6.
The reawakening of science
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§ 7.
The new growth of European towns
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
177
§ 8.
America comes into history
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184
§ 9.
What Machiavelli thought of the world
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194
§ 10.
The republic of Switzerland
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§ 11
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The life of the Emperor Charles V
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§ 11
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Protestants if the prince wills it
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§ 11
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The intellectual under-tow
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BOOK VIII
THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS
Chapter XXXVI
. Princes, Parliaments, and Powers
§ 1.
Princes and foreign policy
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213
§ 2.
The English republic
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
218
§ 3.
The Dutch republic
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
228
§ 4.
The break-up and disorder of Germany
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
232
§ 5.
The splendours of Grand Monarchy in Europe
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
236
§ 6.
The growth of the idea of Great Powers
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
243
§ 7.
The crowned republic of Poland and its fate
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
248
§ 8.
The first scramble for empire overseas
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251
§ 9.
Britain dominates India
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
254
§ 10.
Russia's ride to the Pacific
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259
§ 11.
What Gibbon thought of the world in 1780
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§ 12.
The social truce draws to an end
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
269
Chapter XXXVII
. The New Democratic Republics of America and France
§ 1.
Inconveniences of the Great Power system
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
278
§ 2.
The thirteen colonies before their revolt
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
280
§ 3.
Civil war is forced upon the colonies
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
286
§ 4.
The War of Independence
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
291
§ 5.
The constitution of the United States
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
294
§ 6.
Primitive features of the United States constitution
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
301
§ 7.
Revolutionary ideas in France
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
307
§ 8.
The Revolution of the year 1789
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
311
§ 9.
The French "crowned republic" of '89–'91
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
313
§ 10.
The Revolution of the Jacobins
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
321
§ 11.
The Jacobin republic, 1792–4
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
331
§ 12.
The Directory
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
337
§ 13.
The pause in reconstruction and the dawn of modern Socialism
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
339
Chapter XXXVIII
. The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte
§ 1.
The Buonaparte family in Corsica
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
348
§ 2.
Bonaparte as a republican general
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
349
§ 3.
Napoleon First Consul, 1799–1804
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
354
§ 4.
Napoleon I Emperor, 1804–1814
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
360
§ 5.
The Hundred Days
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
368
§ 6.
The cult of the Napoleonic
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
373
§ 7.
The map of Europe in 1815
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
377
Chapter XXXIX
. The Realities and Imagination of the Nineteenth Century. The Increase of Knowledge and Clear Thinking. The Nationalist Phase
§ 1.
The mechanical revolution
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
384
§ 2.
Relation of the mechanical to the industrial revolution
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
393
§ 3.
The fermentation of ideas, 1848
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
399
§ 4.
The development of the idea of Socialism
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
401
§ 5.
Shortcomings of Socialism as a scheme of human society
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
411
§ 6.
How Darwinism affected religious and political ideas
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
416
§ 7.
Mr. Gladstone and the idea of Nationalism
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
426
§ 8.
Europe between 1848 and 1878
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
436
§ 9.
The (second) scramble for overseas empires
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
449
§ 10.
The Indian precedent in Asia
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
461
§ 11.
The history of Japan
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
464
§ 12.
Close of the period of overseas expansion
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
469
§ 13.
The British Empire in 1914
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
470
Chapter XL
. The International Catastrophe of 1914 and the Close of the Great Power Period
§ 1.
The armed peace before the Great War
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
475
§ 2.
Imperial Germany
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
477
§ 3.
The spirit of Imperialism in Britain and Ireland
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
486
§ 4.
Imperialism in France, Italy, and the Balkans
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
499
§ 5.
Russia still a Grand Monarchy in 1914
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
502
§ 6.
The United States and the Imperial idea
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
503
§ 7.
The immediate causes of the Great War
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
508
§ 8.
A summary of the Great War up to 1917
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
513
§ 9.
The Great War from the Russian collapse to the armistice
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
524
§ 10.
The political, economic, and social disorganization caused by the Great War
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
532
§ 11.
President Wilson and the problems of Versailles
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
543
§ 12.
Summary Of the first Covenant of the League of Nations
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
558
§ 13.
A general outline of the treaties of 1919 and 1920
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
562
§ 14.
A forecast of the "next war"
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
567
§ 15.
The state of men's minds in 1920
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
572
BOOK IX
THE NEXT STAGE IN HISTORY
Chapter XLI
. Man's Coming of Age. The Probable Struggle for the Unification of the World into One Community of Knowledge and Will
§ 1.
The possible unification of men's wills in political matters
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
579
§ 2.
How a Federal World Government may come about
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
583
§ 3.
Some fundamental characteristics of a modern world state
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
586
§ 4.
What this world might be like, were men united in a common peace and justice
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
588
§ 5.
The stages beyond?
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
594
Five Time Charts of the World's Affairs from b.c. 1000 to a.d. 1920
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
599
A Chronological Table from 800 b.c. to a.d. 1920
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605
Index
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