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A Short History of the World

by H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)

The Age of the Coal Swamps

A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on Earth, reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation.The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and the League of Nations in 1922. In 1934 Albert Einstein recommended the book for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilisation. - Summary adopted from Wikipedia

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Listen next episodes of A Short History of the World:
Between Rome and China , Chronological table , Confucius and Lao Tse , Egypt, Babylon And Assyria , European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan , King Asoka , Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men , Muhammad and Islam , Priests and Prophets in Judea , Primitive Neolithic Civilizations , Primitive Nomadic Peoples , Primitive Thought , Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism , Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire , Rome and Carthage , Rome Comes into History , Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing , The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18 , The Age of Mammals , The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe , The Age of Reptiles , The American War of Independence , The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West , The Beginnings of Cultivation , The British Empire in 1914 , The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires , The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire , The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion , The Development of Doctrinal Christianity , The Development of Latin Christendom , The Development of Material Knowledge , The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas , The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China , The Early History of the Jews , The Emperor Charles V , The Empire of Alexander the Great , The Expansion of the United States , The First Birds and the First Mammals , The First Sea-Going Peoples , The First True Men , The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France , The Great Days of the Arabs , The Greeks , The Growth of the Roman Empire , The Huns and the End of the Western Empire , The Industrial Revolution , The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans , The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I , The Life of Gautama Buddha , The Mongol Conquests , The Museum and Library at Alexandria , The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man , The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas , The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway , The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World , The Primitive Aryans , The Reformation of the Latin Church , The Revolution and Famine in Russia , The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe , The Splendour of Greece , The Teaching of Jesus , The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon , The Wars of the Greeks and Persians