Volume 1 — VOLUME I

General Introduction An Outline Narrative of the Great Events CHARLES F. HORNE Dawn of Civilization (B.C. 5867) G.C.C. MASPERO Compilation of the Earliest Code (B.C. 2250) HAMMURABI Theseus Founds Athens (B.C. 1235) PLUTARCH The Formation of the Castes in India (B.C. 1200) GUSTAVE LE BON W.W. HUNTER Fall of Troy (B.C. 1184) GEORGE GROTE Accession of Solomon Building of the Temple at Jerusalem (B.C. 1017) HENRY HART MILMAN Rise and Fall of Assyria Destruction of Nineveh (B.C. 789) F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER The Foundation of Rome (B.C. 753) BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR Prince Jimmu Founds Japan's Capital (B.C. 660) SIR EDWARD REED THE "NEHONGI" The Foundation of Buddhism (B.C. 623) THOMAS W. RHYS-DAVIDS Pythian Games at Delphi (B.C. 585) GEORGE GROTE Solon's Early Greek Legislation (B.C. 594) GEORGE GROTE Conquests of Cyrus the Great (B.C. 550) GEORGE GROTE Rise of Confucius, the Chinese Sage (B.C. 550) R.K. DOUGLAS Rome Established as a Republic Institution of Tribunes (B.C. 510-494) HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL The Battle of Marathon (B.C. 490) SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY Invasion of Greece by Persians under Xerxes Defence of Thermopylæ (B.C. 480) HERODOTUS Universal Chronology (B.C. 5867-451) JOHN RUDD The Rosetta Stone