Description: After an examination of early man in Europe, the focus shifts to the Near East where the reader meets in turn the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, and Hebrews. Fuller treatment is given to the Greeks, including their repulse of Persia, the rivalry between Athens and Sparta, and Athens in the Age of Pericles. In dealing with each civilization a sufficient framework of political organization and of historical events is recorded, but the bulk of the space has been devoted to society, industry, commerce, religion, art, and literature.

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PART I - THE EARLIEST EUROPEANS
1. Early Mankind in Europe

PART II - THE ORIENT
2. The Story of Egypt: the Earliest Nile-Dwellers and the Pyramid Age
3. The Story of Egypt: the Feudal Age and the Empire
4. Western Asia: Babylonia
5. The Assyrians and Chaldeans
6. The Medo-Persian Empire
7. The Hebrews and the Decline of the Orient

PART III - THE GREEKS
8. The Dawn of' European Civilization and the Rise of the Eastern Mediterranean World
9. The Greek Conquest of the Aegean World

10. Greek Civilization in the Age of the Kings

11. The Age of the Nobles and Greek Expansion in the Mediterranean
12. The Industrial Revolution and the Age of the
Tyrants
13. The Repulse of Persia
14. The Growing Rivalry bp:tween Athens and Sparta,
and the Rise of the Athenian Empire
15. Athens in the Age of Pericles

The Ancient World 

by Albert Malet

The Story of the Greeks 

by H. A. Guerber

Streams of History: Early Civilizations 

by Ellwood Wadsworth Kemp

The Story of Greece 

by Mary MacGregor