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A Short History of the World

作者 H. G. Wells · 67 部分 · about 8 hours 43 minutes 阅读时间

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如何把整个世界历史装进一本你真正能读完的书里？H. G. Wells 尝试过，他从人类出现很久之前开始，从地球本身和最初的生命开始。然后他带你走过帝国、宗教、战争和发明，始终追问这一切意味着什么。Wells 写得清晰，想得宏大，所以即使是巨大的事件也让人觉得可以理解。读完后，你会以不同的眼光看待我们自己的时代。

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章节

Chapter I: The World in Space4 min Chapter II: The World in Time5 min Chapter III: The Beginnings of Life5 min Chapter IV: The Age of Fishes6 min Chapter V: The Age of the Coal Swamps6 min Chapter VI: The Age of Reptiles6 min Chapter VII: The First Birds and the First Mammals6 min Chapter VIII: The Age of Mammals6 min Chapter IX: Monkeys, Apes and Sub-men6 min Chapter X: The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man6 min Chapter XI: The First True Men7 min Chapter XII: Primitive Thought7 min Chapter XIII: The Beginnings of Cultivation7 min Chapter XIV: Primitive Neolithic Civilizations7 min Chapter XV: Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing6 min Chapter XVI: Primitive Nomadic Peoples6 min Chapter XVII: The First Seagoing Peoples7 min Chapter XVIII: Egypt, Babylon and Assyria9 min Chapter XIX: The Primitive Aryans7 min Chapter XX: The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I6 min Chapter XXI: The Early History of the Jews8 min Chapter XXII: Priests and Prophets in Judea6 min Chapter XXIII: The Greeks8 min Chapter XXIV: The Wars of the Greeks and Persians6 min Chapter XXV: The Splendour of Greece5 min Chapter XXVI: The Empire of Alexander the Great6 min Chapter XXVII: The Museum and Library at Alexandria8 min Chapter XXVIII: The Life of Gautama Buddha8 min Chapter XXIX: King Asoka3 min Chapter XXX: Confucius and Lao Tse8 min Chapter XXXI: Rome Comes Into History8 min Chapter XXXII: Rome and Carthage6 min Chapter XXXIII: The Growth of the Roman Empire17 min Chapter XXXIV: Between Rome and China7 min Chapter XXXV: The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire9 min Chapter XXXVI: Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire9 min Chapter XXXVII: The Teaching of Jesus10 min Chapter XXXVIII: The Development of Doctrinal Christianity5 min Chapter XXXIX: The Barbarians Break the Empire Into East and West7 min Chapter XL: The Huns and the End of the Western Empire8 min Chapter XLI: The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires6 min Chapter XLII: The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China3 min Chapter XLIII: Muhammad and Islam5 min Chapter XLIV: The Great Days of the Arabs5 min Chapter XLV: The Development of Latin Christendom12 min Chapter XLVI: The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion14 min Chapter XLVII: Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism14 min Chapter XLVIII: The Mongol Conquests7 min Chapter XLIX: The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans14 min Chapter L: The Reformation of the Latin Church6 min Chapter LI: The Emperor Charles V14 min Chapter LII: The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe15 min Chapter LIII: The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas7 min Chapter LIV: The American War of Independence8 min Chapter LV: The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France12 min Chapter LVI: The Uneasy Peace in Europe That Followed the Fall of Napoleon6 min Chapter LVII: The Development of Material Knowledge14 min Chapter LVIII: The Industrial Revolution7 min Chapter LIX: The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas18 min Chapter LX: The Expansion of the United States12 min Chapter LXI: The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe2 min Chapter LXII: The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway9 min Chapter LXIII: European Aggression in Asia and the Rise of Japan8 min Chapter LXIV: The British Empire in 19143 min Chapter LXV: The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-187 min Chapter LXVI: The Revolution and Famine in Russia8 min Chapter LXVII: The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World10 min