CONTENTS

PART Ⅰ The Beginnings of European Civilisation

1 The Greatness of Athens

2 The Greatness of Sparta

3 Greek Thought and Art

4 The Source of Rome's Greatness

5 Rome's Great Rival

6 Julius C？sar

7 The Roman Emperors

PART Ⅱ The Middle Ages and the Rise of European Nationali-ties8 Constantine and the Triumph of Christianity

9 The Coming of the Barbarians and Charles the Hammer

10 Charles the Great

11 Hildebrand：Pope Gregory Ⅶ．

12 Frederick Barbarossa

13 Saladin and the Crusades

14 SFrancis and the Revival of Religion

15 S．Louis

16 Russia and the Tartar Invasion

17 The Growth of the Towns

18 The Hundred Years'War and Jeanne Darc

PART Ⅲ Modern History

Introduction

19 The Greatness of Spain and Isabella of Castile

20 Christopher Columbus

21 Luther and the Reformation

22 The Revolt of the Netherlands and William the Silent，Prince of Orange

23 Henry Ⅳ．of France

24 The Thirty Years'War and Gustavus Adolphus

25 Louis ⅩⅣ．of Francev

26 Peter the Great

27 Frederick the Great，King of Prussiav

28 The French Revolutionv

29 Napoleon Bonaparte

30 Victor Emmanuel

31 Bismarck and German Unity