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OLD EUROPE and YOUNG AMERICA Full page illustrations. The Preface Extracts from the Report of the Committee of Eight INTRODUCTION Why Americans Should Know about Europe How Europe Looks To-Day America Unknown to the People of Ancient Times; Early Ideas of Geography Why the First European Colonists Came to America How America Receives European Immigrants To-day WHAT THE EASTERN NATIONS GAVE How the Earliest Men in Europe Lived Civilization Begins in Egypt Asia, Too; Has Early Civilized Peoples How the Hebrews and Phoenicians Helped Civilization WHAT THE GREEKS GAVE IN STORIES AND MYTHS What We Owe to the Greeks Where the Greeks Lived The Religion of the Greeks; Gods and Goddesses The Deeds of the Heroes The Siege of Troy HOW THE GREEKS TAUGHT MEN TO BE FREE How the Greeks Governed Themselves Athenians and Spartans Things Which Brought the Greeks Together Greece Attacked by the Persians The Battle of Marathon How the Spartans Held the Pass at Thermopylae How Greece was Saved SOME THINGS THE CITY OF ATHENS TAUGHT THE WORLD The Age of Pericles Begins How Athens Looked in the Age of Pericles Socrates, the Philosopher HOW THE GREEKS FAILED The Decline of Greece How Philip of Macedon Gained Power The Youth of Alexander the Great How Alexander Carried Greek Ideas into Asia The End of Alexander's Empire The Spread of Hellenistic Civilization; Wonders of Alexandria THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME The Early Days of Rome What the Roman Myths Tell The Plebeians Struggle for Their Rights The Gauls Take Rome WHAT ROME GAINED BY CONQUEST Hannibal Threatens Rome Roman Conquer All Nations Conquest Does Not Make Rome Better HOW THE ROMAN REPUBLIC BECAME THE ROMAN EMPIRE Caesar Appears Ceasar Conquers Gaul and Quarrels with Pompey Caesar Makes Himself Master of Rome The Death of Caesar Caesar Augustus Rules What the Roman Empire Was HOW THE ROMANS LIVED How the City of Rome Looked What A Roman Triumph Meant Amusements of the Romans The Destruction of Pompeii Roman Houses How the Romans Lived NEW THOUGHTS IN ROME Great Roman Writers The Coming of Christianity How the Early Christains Were Treated Christianity Triumphs THE DOWNFALL OF ROME The Decline of the Roman Empire The Downfall of Rome THE COMING OF THE TEUTONS What Kind of People the Early Germans Were Conquests of the German Tribes Britain Conquered by the Angles and Saxons HOW THE TEUTONS LEARNED FROM ROME The Germans Become Christians How Missionaries Taught the Teutons Who the Monks Were Charles the Great Revives Civilization The Coming of the Northmen HOW ENGLAND WAS MADE Alfred the Great Withstands the Danes Alfred's Works of Peace The Normans Conquer England How Henry II Kept Order in England King John and Magna Carta How Parliament Grew THE NOBLES OF THE MIDDLE AGES Classes of People in the Middle Ages How the Nobles Lived Warfare in the Middle Ages Warlike Games of the Nobles; the Tournament What Feudalism Was Chivalry and Knighthood THE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES How the People Lived How the Towns Grew Industry in the Towns The Beginnings of Commerce THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES The Churches of the Middle Ages The Clergy and the Pope THE PILGRIMS AND THE CRUSADERS People Who Were Called Pilgrims The Cultured Arabs and the Fierce Turks How the Crusades Began The First Trained Army The Wonderful Spear How the Crusaders Acted The Second Crusade The Third Crusade Richard and Saladin Good Friends The Story of the King's Friend Later Crusades What the Crusades Did MARCO POLO'S GREAT JOURNEY AND HIS BOOK The Polos' Visit to China INVENTIONS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY Early Inventions Invention of Printing The Compass Discovery of Gunpowder and Invention of Cannon THE RACE FOR INDIA BEGINS BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN Prince Henry, the Navigator, Seeks an All-Water Route to India Christopher Columbus, Seeking India, Finds America Columbus Seeks Aid The Discovery of America The Return to Spain Other Voyages to America Voyage of the Northmen SPANISH EXPLORERS OF THE NEW WORLD Why America Was Named for Americus Vespucius Balboa Discovers the Pacific Magellan Begins His Great Voyage Cortés Invades Mexico A Wonderful Indian City The Conquest of the Aztecs The Richest City in the World Pizarro Captures the Inca The Spaniards Find Untold Wealth De Soto's Expedition Discovery of the Mississippi Coronado and the Seven Cities of Cibolo Discovery of the Grand Cañon Discover Great Herds of Crooked-Back Oxen Meaning of Coronado's Expedition OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY; THE FOUNDING OF MISSIONS Las Casas, the Enemy of Human Slavery Missions from Peru to California FRANCE AGAINST SPAIN IN EUROPE AND AMERICA French Explorations The Story of Chevalier Bayard The French Claim to North America Huguenot Colony in Florida Champlain Founds New France Trying to Make New France Stronger ENGLAND THE RIVAL OF SPAIN IN EUROPE AND AMERICA John Cabot Seeks a Shorter Route to India and Finds North America The Quarrel Between the King of England and the King of Spain The Great Leaders in the Conflict Henry VII Becomes Head of the English Church Elizabeth's Plans, and the Puritans Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots The Revolt of the Netherlands William the Silent Close of the Thirty Years' War HOW THE ENGLISH SEA DOGS FOUGHT THE SPANISH SAILORS AND ROBBED THE SPANISH TREASURE SHIPS The Beginnings of Trouble Sir Francis Drake The First Englishman to Circumnavigate the Globe "Singeing the Spanish King's Beard" The Coming of the Great Armada A Great Sea Fight A Crushing Defeat How Sir Walter Raleigh Won the Queen's Favor Raleigh Tries to Plant Colonies in America The Meaning of the Battle with Spain France and England Fight for Control HOW OLD EUROPE DISTURBED YOUNG AMERICA The American Colonies and Europe The American Colonies and England France in the Revolution Washington and Neutrality Efforts to Maintain Neutrality The Second War with England The Monroe Doctrine Immigration to the United States--the "Old Immigration" The New Immigration The United States Keeps Out of European Troubles Causes of the Spanish-American War The Spanish-American War Results of the War with Spain The United States in the Orient Our Problems in America THE GREAT WORLD WAR: HOW YOUNG AMERICA WENT TO FIGHT IN OLD EUROPE An Old Debt We Owed The Balkan States and Their Neighbors The Great World War Begins The British Navy Victorious America Declares She Will Take No Part in the War Sinking of the "Lusitania" America Declares War How Our Government Got Ready How the "Stay-at-Homes" Helped Win the War First Americans Arrive in Europe The Last German Drive (1918) The Americans to the Rescue Foch's Great Counter Blow The Downfall of Germany. The Kaiser Runs Away New Things Used in This War © 2000 by Lynn Waterman |