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| Foreword | |
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| The Glory That Was Rome | |
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| Wandering Through the Roman Empire | |
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| The Fall of Rome | |
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| The Early Days of Britain | |
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| The Celts of Britain | |
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| Barbarians Come to Britain | |
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| Beowulf the Hero | |
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| Christianity Comes to Britain | |
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| Augustine Comes to England | |
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| Medieval Monasteries | |
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| Writing Books by Hand | |
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| The Byzantine Empire | |
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| The Beauty of Constantinople | |
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| Justinian, the Just Emperor | |
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| The Empress Theodora | |
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| The Church in the East | |
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| The Medieval Indian Empire | |
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| A King Named Skandagupta | |
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| Monks in Caves | |
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| The Rise of Islam | |
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| Muhammad's Vision | |
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| Muhammad Flees to Medina | |
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| The Koran: Islam's Holy Book | |
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| Islam Becomes an Empire | |
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| The Fight for Mecca | |
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| The Spread of Islam | |
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| The City of Baghdad | |
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| Sinbad in the Valley of Snakes | |
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| The Great Dynasties of China | |
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| Yang Chien Unites North and South | |
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| The Tang Dynasty | |
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| East of China | |
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| The Yamato Dynasty of Japan | |
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| A Tale of Three Countries; Korea, China, and Japan | |
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| The Bottom of the World | |
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| The First People of Australia | |
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| The Long Journey of the Maori | |
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| The Kingdom of the Franks | |
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| Clovis, The Ex-Barbarian | |
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| Four Tribes, One Empire | |
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| The Islamic Invasion | |
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| Islam in Spain and Africa | |
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| The Great Kings of France | |
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| Charles the Hammer | |
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| The Greatest King: Charlemagne | |
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| The Arrival of the Norsemen | |
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| The Viking Invasion | |
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| Eric the Red and "Eric's Son" | |
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| The Norse Gods | |
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| Thor and the Giant King | |
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| The First Kings of England | |
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| The Vikings Invade England | |
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| Alfred the Great | |
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| The Battle of Hastings | |
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| England After the Conquest | |
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| The English Language | |
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| Serfs and Noblemen | |
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| Stone Castles | |
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| Knights and Samurai | |
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| The English Code of Chivalry | |
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| The Samurai: Japanese Knights | |
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| The Age of Crusades | |
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| A Command from the Pope | |
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| Recapturing Jerusalem | |
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| Saladin of Jerusalem | |
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| El Cid and the "Reconquest of Spain" | |
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| A New Kind of King | |
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| Richard the Lionhearted | |
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| John Lackland and the Magna Carta | |
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| Robin Hood | |
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| Robin Hood and the Butcher | |
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| The Diaspora | |
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| The Scattering of the Jews | |
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| A Tale of the Diaspora | |
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| The Clever Rabbi of Cordova | |
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| The Mongols Devastate the East | |
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| Genghis Khan, Emperor of All Men | |
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| The Mongol Conquest of China | |
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| Exploring the Mysterious East | |
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| Marco Polo Goes to China | |
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| The Forbidden City of the Ming | |
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| The First Russians | |
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| The Rus Come to Constantinople | |
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| Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible | |
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| The Ottoman Empire | |
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| The Ottoman Turks Attack | |
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| The Sheep-Rocks | |
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| The Capture of Constantinople | |
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| Suleiman the Lawgiver | |
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| The End of the World | |
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| The Plague | |
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| A New Way of Living | |
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| France and England at War | |
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| Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt | |
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| Joan of Arc | |
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| War for the English Throne | |
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| The Wars of the Roses | |
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| The Princes in the Tower | |
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| The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal | |
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| Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain | |
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| Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal | |
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| African Kingdoms | |
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| Gold, Salt, and Ghana | |
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| Mansa Musa of Mali | |
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| The Songhay Empire | |
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| India Under the Moghuls | |
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| The Moghul Dynasty | |
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| Akbar of India | |
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| The Bad-Luck Servant | |
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| Exploring New Worlds | |
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| Christopher Columbus | |
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| Vespucci and Magellan | |
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| The American Kingdoms | |
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| The Mayans of Central America | |
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| The Marvelous City of Tenochtitlan | |
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| The Incas | |
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| Spain, Portugal, and the New World | |
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| The Slave Trade | |
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| Cortes and Montezuma | |
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| Martin Luther's New Ideas | |
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| Martin Luther's List | |
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| Henry VIII's Problem | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| A New Way of Thinking | |
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| Gutenberg's Great Invention | |
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| Reformation and Counter Reformation | |
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| The Spread of the Reformation | |
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| The Council of Trent | |
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| The New Universe | |
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| The Revolution of Copernicus | |
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| Galileo's Strange Notions | |
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| England's Greatest Queen | |
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| The Queen Who Almost Wasn't | |
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| Good Queen Bess | |
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| England's Greatest Playwright | |
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| William Shakespeare | |
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| Macbech | |
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| Macbeth's Decision | |
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| New Ventures to the Americas | |
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| Walter Raleigh and the New World | |
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| The Lost Colony | |
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| Explorations in the North | |
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| The New-Found Land | |
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| Jacques Cartier's Discoveries | |
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| Empires Collide | |
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| Spain and England's War | |
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| The World at the End of the Sixteenth Century | |
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| Chronology of The Middle Ages | |
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| Dates in Volume 2 | |
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| A Geography of The Middle Ages | |
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| A List of Maps in Volume 2 | |
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| Pronouncing the Names of The Middle Ages | |
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| A Pronunciation Guide for Reading Aloud | |
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| Index | |