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A Short History of the World

H. G. Wells

A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells. 68 sections, 13 hr 51 min. Public domain recording (LibriVox).

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Length
13 hr 51 min
Sections
68
Language
English
Level
Secondary
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Kristine Bekere A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H
Source
LibriVox
Internet Archive
short_history_2005_librivox
Rights
Public domain — LibriVox recording of a public-domain text

Chapters

  1. 01 - The World in Space 6:10
  2. 02 - The World in Time 6:14
  3. 03 - The Beginnings of Life 6:11
  4. 04 - The Age of Fishes 9:07
  5. 05 - The Age of the Coal Swamps 9:38
  6. 06 - The Age of Reptiles 8:59
  7. 07 - The First Birds and the First Mammals 10:07
  8. 08 - The Age of Mammals 9:17
  9. 09 - Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men 9:12
  10. 10 - The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man 9:10
  11. 11 - The First True Men 9:51
  12. 12 - Primitive Thought 10:18
  13. 13 - The Beginnings of Cultivation 10:21
  14. 14 - Primitive Neolithic Civilizations 10:56
  15. 15 - Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing 10:00
  16. 16 - Primitive Nomadic Peoples 9:21
  17. 17 - The First Sea-Going Peoples 11:07
  18. 18 - Egypt, Babylon And Assyria 14:49
  19. 19 - The Primitive Aryans 10:36
  20. 20 - The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I 9:11
  21. 21 - The Early History of the Jews 12:07
  22. 22 - Priests and Prophets in Judea 9:57
  23. 23 - The Greeks 12:23
  24. 24 - The Wars of the Greeks and Persians 9:24
  25. 25 - The Splendour of Greece 8:16
  26. 26 - The Empire of Alexander the Great 9:46
  27. 27 - The Museum and Library at Alexandria 12:16
  28. 28 - The Life of Gautama Buddha 12:15
  29. 29 - King Asoka 4:44
  30. 30 - Confucius and Lao Tse 12:10
  31. 31 - Rome Comes into History 11:52
  32. 32 - Rome and Carthage 9:38
  33. 33 - The Growth of the Roman Empire 25:09
  34. 34 - Between Rome and China 10:29
  35. 35 - The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire 13:55
  36. 36 - Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire 14:39
  37. 37 - The Teaching of Jesus 13:42
  38. 38 - The Development of Doctrinal Christianity 8:34
  39. 39 - The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West 10:23
  40. 40 - The Huns and the End of the Western Empire 12:38
  41. 41 - The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires 10:05
  42. 42 - The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China 4:45
  43. 43 - Muhammad and Islam 8:14
  44. 44 - The Great Days of the Arabs 8:02
  45. 45 - The Development of Latin Christendom 17:37
  46. 46 - The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion 20:38
  47. 47 - Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism 20:32
  48. 48 - The Mongol Conquests 10:57
  49. 49 - The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans 21:06
  50. 50 - The Reformation of the Latin Church 9:11
  51. 51 - The Emperor Charles V 20:03
  52. 52 - The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe 24:41
  53. 53 - The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas 11:23
  54. 54 - The American War of Independence 12:04
  55. 55 - The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France 18:22
  56. 56 - The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon 10:10
  57. 57 - The Development of Material Knowledge 20:56
  58. 58 - The Industrial Revolution 10:25
  59. 59 - The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas 27:47
  60. 60 - The Expansion of the United States 18:36
  61. 61 - The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe 4:13
  62. 62 - The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway 13:21
  63. 63 - European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan 11:57
  64. 64 - The British Empire in 1914 4:57
  65. 65 - The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18 10:42
  66. 66 - The Revolution and Famine in Russia 11:28
  67. 67 - The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World 14:36
  68. 68 - Chronological table 29:36