A Little History of the WorldE.H.

Gombrich

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Title
Once Upon a Time
The Greatest Inventors of All Time
The Land By the Nile
Sunday, Monday
The One and Only God
I C-A-N R-E-A-D
Heroes and Their Weapons
An Unequal Struggle
Two Small Cities and One Small Land
The Enlightened One and His Land
A Great Teacher of a Great People
The Greatest Adventure of All
New Wars and New Warriors
An Enemy of History
Rulers of the Western World
The Good News
Life in the Empire and At Its Frontiers
The Storm
The Starry Night Begins
There Is No God But Allah
A Conqueror Who Knows How to Rule
A Struggle to Become Lord of Christendom
Chivalrous Knights
Emperors In the Age of Chivalry
Cities and Citizens
A New Age
A New World
A New Faith
The Church at War
Terrible Times
An Unlucky King and a Lucky King
Meanwhile, Looking Eastwards
A Truly New Age
A Very Violent Revolution
The Last Conqueror
Men and Machines
Across the Seas
Two New States in Europe
Dividing Up the World
Looking Back

1st Quarter

2nd Quarter

Topic
Dinosaurs
Neanderthals
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Jews
Phoenicians
Homer/Mycenaeans
Persians
Greece
India/Buddha
Confucius/China
Greek/Persian Wars
Rome/Italy
Great Wall of China
Caesar/Cleopatra
Jesus/Christianity
Decline of Roman Empire
Fall of Rome
Dark Ages
Islam
Charlemagne
Various Rulers of Middle ages
Knights/Crusades
Crusades, etc.
Hundred Years War
Renaissance
Exploration
Reformation
Counter-reformation
Scientific Revolution
Charles I/Louis XIV
Russia
Enlightenment/American Rev.
French Revolution
Napoleon
Industrial Revolution
China/American Civil war
Germany/Italy
WWI
WWI, WWII, Communism
3rd Quarter

4th Quarter