THE OUTLINE OFHISTORY

BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKIND

By H. G. WellsWRITTEN ORIGINALLY WITH THE ADVICE ANDEDITORIAL HELP OF MR. ERNEST BARKER,SIR H. H. JOHSTON, SIR E. RAY. LAN-KESTER, AND PROFESSOR GILBERTMURRAY, AND ILLUSTRATEDBY J. F. HORRABINCOMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

Containing all maps, charts, illustrations, diagrams, etc. 1200 pages

Table of Contents

ContentsPage

1.0The Earth in Space and Time12.0The Record of the Rocks2.1The First Living Things52.2How Old is the World103.0Natural Selection and Changes of Species134.0The Invasion of the Dry Land by Life4.1Life and Water194.2The Earliest Animals215.0The Age of Reptiles5.1The Age of Lowland Life255.2Flying Dragons29

5.3The First Birds305.4An Age of Hardship and Death325.5The First Appearance of Fur and Feathers346.0The Age of Mammals6.1A New Age of Life376.2Tradition Comes Into the World386.3An Age of Brain Growth426.4The World Grows Hard Again447.0The Ancestry of Man7.1Man Descended From a Walking Ape467.2First Traces of Man-like Creatures517.3The Heidelberg Sub-Man527.4The Piltdown Sub-Man538.0The Neanderthal Man, an Extinct Race8.1The World 50,000 Years Ago558.2The Daily Life of the First Men599.0The Later Postglacial Paleolithic Men, the First True Men (Later Paleolithic Age) 9.1The Coming of Men Like Ourselves659.2Hunters Give Place to Herdsmen749.3No Sub-men in America7510.0Neolithic Man in Europe10.1The Age of Cultivation Begins7710.2Where did the Neolithic Culture Arise8110.3Everyday Neolithic Life8110.4Primitive Trade8710.5The Flooding of the Mediterranean Valley8811.0Early Thought11.1Primitive Philosophy9211.2The Old Man in Religion9411.3Fear and Hope in Religion9611.4Stars and Seasons9711.5Story-telling and Myth-making9911.6Complex Origins of Religion10012.0The Races of Mankind12.1Is Mankind Still Differentiating?106

12.2The Main Races of Mankind11012.3The Heliolithic Culture of Brunet Peoples11113.0The Languages of Mankind13.1No One Primitive Language11713.2The Aryan Languages11813.3The Semitic Languages12013.4The Hamitic Languages12113.5The Ural-Altaic Languages12313.6The Chinese Languages12313.7Other Language Groups12413.8A Possible Primitive Language Group12713.9Some Isolated Languages12914.0The First Civilizations14.1Early Cities and Early Nomads13114.2Early Civilizations13514.2.1The Sumerians13714.2.2The Empire of Sargon the First13714.2.3The Empire of Hammurabi13814.2.4The Assyrians and their Empire14014.2.5The Chaldean Empire14014.3The Early History of Egypt14114.4The Early Civilization of India14714.5The Early History of China14714.6While the Civilizations were Growing15215.0Sea Peoples and Trading Peoples15.1The Earliest Ships and Sailors15515.2The Aegean Cities before History15815.3The First Voyages of Exploration16215.4Early Traders16415.5Early Travellers16616.0Writing16.1Picture Writing16816.2Syllable Writing17116.3Alphabet Writing17216.4The Place of Writing in Human Life17317.0Gods and Stars, Priests and Kings