CHAPTER I.--THE PREHISTORIC AGE CHAPTER II.--THE FORMATION OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES PERIOD II. THE FLOURISHING ERA OF GREECE. CHAPTER I.--THE PERSIAN WARS CHAPTER II.--THE ASCENDENCY OF ATHENS CHAPTER III.--THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR CHAPTER IV.--RELATIONS WITH PERSIA: THE SPARTAN AND THEBAN HEGEMONY PERIOD III. THE MACEDONIAN ERA. CHAPTER I.--PHILIP AND ALEXANDER CHAPTER II.--THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER SECTION II. ROMAN HISTORY. INTRODUCTION PERIOD I. ROME UNDER THE KINGS AND THE PATRICIANS (753-304 B.C.). CHAPTER I.--ROME UNDER THE KINGS (753-509 B.C.) CHAPTER II.--ROME UNDER THE PATRICIANS (509-304 B.C.) PERIOD II. TO THE UNION OF ITALY (304-264 B.C.). CHAPTER I.--CONQUEST OF THE LATINS AND ITALIANS (304-282 B.C.) CHAPTER II.--WAR WITH PYRRHUS AND UNION WITH ITALY (282-264 B.C.) PERIOD III. THE PUNIC WARS. To the Conquest of Carthage and of the Greek States (264-146 B.C.) CHAPTER I.--THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WARS (264-202 B.C.) CHAPTER II.--CONQUEST OF MACEDONIA: THE THIRD PUNIC WAR: THE DESTRUCTION OF CORINTH (202-146 B.C.) PERIOD IV. THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND OF THE CIVIL WARS (146-3l B.C.). CHAPTER I.--THE GRACCHI: THE FIRST MITHRIDATIC WAR: MARIUS AND SULLA (146-78 B.C.) CHAPTER II.--POMPEIUS AND THE EAST: TO THE DEATH OF CRASSUS (78-53 B.C.) CHAPTER III.--POMPEIUS AND CAESAR: THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE. PERIOD V. THE IMPERIAL MONARCHY. To the Migrations of the Teutonic Tribes (375 A.D.) CHAPTER I.--THE REIGN OF AUGUSTUS CHAPTER II.--THE EMPERORS OF THE AUGUSTAN HOUSE CHAPTER III.--THE FLAVIANS AND THE ANTONINES CHAPTER IV.--THE EMPERORS MADE BY THE SOLDIERS: THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY: THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY PART II. MEDIAEVAL HISTORY. _From the Migrations of the Teutonic Tribes to the Fall of Constantinople (A.D. 375-1453)._ INTRODUCTION PERIOD I. TO THE CARLOVINGIAN LINE OF FRANK RULERS (A.D. 375-751). CHAPTER I.--CAUSES OF THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE: THE TEUTONIC CONFEDERACIES CHAPTER II.--THE TEUTONIC MIGRATIONS AND KINGDOMS CHAPTER III.--THE EASTERN EMPIRE CHAPTER IV.--MOHAMMEDANISM AND THE ARABIC CONQUESTS PERIOD II. FROM THE CARLOVINGIAN LINE OF FRANK KINGS TO THE ROMANO-GERMANIC EMPIRE (A.D. 751-962). CHAPTER I.--THE CARLOVINGIAN EMPIRE TO THE DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE (A.D. 814) CHAPTER II.--DISSOLUTION OF CHARLEMAGNE'S EMPIRE: RISE OF THE KINGDOMS OF FRANCE, GERMANY, AND ITALY CHAPTER III.--INVASIONS OF THE NORTHMEN AND OTHERS: THE FEUDAL SYSTEM PERIOD III. FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ROMANO-GERMANIC EMPIRE TO THE END OF THE CRUSADES (A.D. 962-1270). CHAPTER I.--THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF THE EMPIRE: TO THE CRUSADES (A.D. 1096) CHAPTER II.--THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF THE CHURCH: TO THE END OF THE CRUSADES (A.D. 1270) CHAPTER III.--ENGLAND AND FRANCE: THE FIRST PERIOD OF THEIR RIVALSHIP (A.D. 1066-1217) CHAPTER IV.--RISE OF THE BURGHER CLASS: SOCIETY IN THE ERA OF THE CRUSADES