قراءة كتاب The Story of Mankind
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silver line of the endless sea and as a contrast, immediately below us, the patchwork of roofs and chimneys and houses and gardens and hospitals and schools and railways, which we called our home. But the tower showed us the old home in a new light. The confused commotion of the streets and the market-place, of the factories and the workshop, became the well-ordered expression of human energy and purpose. Best of all, the wide view of the glorious past, which surrounded us on all sides, gave us new courage to face the problems of the future when we had gone back to our daily tasks.
History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young feet are strong and it can be done.
Here I give you the key that will open the door.
When you return, you too will understand the reason for my enthusiasm.
Hendrik Willem van Loon.
CONTENTS
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| 1. | The Setting of the Stage | 3 |
| 2. | Our Earliest Ancestors | 9 |
| 3. | Prehistoric Man Begins to Make Things for Himself | 13 |
| 4. | The Egyptians Invent the Art of Writing and the Record of History Begins | 17 |
| 5. | The Beginning of Civilisation in the Valley of the Nile | 22 |
| 6. | The Rise and Fall of Egypt | 27 |
| 7. | Mesopotamia, the Second Centre of Eastern Civilisation | 29 |
| 8. | The Sumerian Nail Writers, Whose Clay Tablets Tell Us the Story of Assyria and Babylonia, the Great Semitic Melting-Pot | 32 |
| 9. | The Story of Moses, the Leader of the Jewish People | 38 |
| 10. | The Phœnicians, Who Gave Us Our Alphabet | 42 |
| 11. | The Indo-European Persians Conquer the Semitic and the Egyptian World | 44 |
| 12. | The People of the Ægean Sea Carried the Civilisation of Old Asia Into the Wilderness of Europe | 48 |
| 13. | Meanwhile the Indo-European Tribe of the Hellenes Was Taking Possession of Greece | 54 |
| 14. | The Greek Cities That Were Really States | 59 |
| 15. | The Greeks Were the First People to Try the Difficult Experiment of Self-Government | 62 |
| 16. | How the Greeks Lived | 66 |
| 17. | The Origins of the Theatre, the First Form of Public Amusement | 71 |
| 18. | How the Greeks Defended Europe Against an Asiatic Invasion and Drove the Persians Back Across the Ægean Sea | 74 |
| 19. | How Athens and Sparta Fought a Long and Disastrous War for the Leadership of Greece | 81 |
| 20. | Alexander the Macedonian Establishes a Greek World-Empire, and What Became of This High Ambition | 83 |
| 21. | A Short Summary of Chapters 1 to 20 | 85 |
| 22. | 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 |
| 23. | How Rome Happened | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@46399@[email protected]#ch23" |