A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells (top e book reader TXT) π
Before that vast period of separate existence, the sun and earth and the other planets that circulate round the sun may have been a great swirl of diffused matter in space. The telescope reveals to us in various parts of the heavens luminous spiral clouds of matter, the spiral nebulae, which appear to be in rotation about a centre. It is supposed by many astronomers that the sun and its planets were once such a spiral, and that their matter has undergone concentration into its present form. Through majestic aeons that concentration went on until in that vast remoteness of the past for which we have given figures, the world and its moon were distinguishable. They were spinning then much faster than they are spinning now; they were at a lesser distance from the sun; they travelled round it very much faster, and they were probably incandescent or molten at the surface. The sun itself was a much greater blaze in the heavens.
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Charles I, King of England, 308, 314, 433
Charles II, King of England, 324, 434
Charles V, Emperor, 309, 310, 314, 316, 433
Charles X, King of France, 350, 434
Charles the Great, (See Charlemagne)
Charlotte Dundas, steamboat, 357
Chelonia, 27
Chemists, Arab, 257. (Cf. Alchemists)
Cheops, 83
Chephren, 83
China, 76, 84, 103, 166, 167 et seq., 173, 174, 233, 245 et seq., 248, 287, 290, 297, 333, 399- 400, 402-03, 411, 429-31, 432, 433, 435. (See also Chow, Han, Kin, Ming, Shang, Sung, Suy, Tsβin, and Yuan dynasties)
China, culture and civilization in, 247
China, Empire of, 196 et seq.
China, Great Wall of, 173, 430
China, North, 173
Chinese picture writing, 79, 167
Chosroes I, 243, 431
Chosroes II, 243, 431
Chow dynasty, 168, 173, 429
Christ. (See Jesus)
Christian conception of Jesus, 214
Christianity (and Christians), 224, 255, 272, 295, 319, 400, 431
Christianity, doctrinal, development of, 222 et seq.
Christianity, spirit of, 224
Chronicles, book of, 116, 119
Chronology, primitive, 68
Chβu, 173
Church, the, 68
Cicero, 193
Cilicia, 299
Cimmerians, 100
Circumcision, 70
Circumnavigation, 302
Cities, Sumerian, 78
Citizenship, 187 et seq., 236, 237
City states, Greek, 129 et seq., Chinese, 168
Civilization, 100
Civilization, Hellenic, 139, 150 et seq.
Civilization, Japanese, 400
Civilization, pre-historic, 71
Civilization, primitive, 76, 167
Civilization, Roman, 185
Claudius, Emperor, 195, 430
Clay documents, 77, 80, 111
Clement V, Pope, 285
Clement VII, Pope, 285, 433
Cleopatra, 194
Clermont, 432
Clermont, steamboat, 358
Climate, changes of, 21, 37
Clive, 333
Clothing, 77
Clothing of Cretan women, 93
Clouds, 8
Clovis, 259
Clyde, Firth of, 357
Cnossos (Crete), 92, 94, 95, 101, 108, 127, 429
Coal, 26
Coal swamps, the age of, 21 et seq.
Coinage, 114, 176, 201, 319
Coke, 322
Collectivists, 375
Colonies, 394 et seq., 407
Columbus, Christopher, 300-01 et seq., 335, 433
Communism (and Communists), 374-75, 417
Comnenus, Alexius. (See Alexius)
Comparative anatomy, science of, 25, (Cf. Anatomy)
Concord, Mass., 338
Confederated States of America, 385
Confucius, 133, 168 et seq., 173, 429
Congo, 397
Conifers, 26, 36
Constance, Council of, 286, 304, 433
Constantine the Great, 187, 226, 228, 229, 241, 429, 431
Constantinople, 229, 238, 239, 243, 253, 258, 263- 64, 270 et seq., 272, 283, 292, 301, 321, 327, 431, 432, 433. (See also Byzantium)
Consuls, Roman, 193
Copper, 74, 80, 102, 360, 395
Cordoba, 256
Corinth, 129
Cornwallis, General, 338
Corsets, 93
Corsica, 182, 185, 232
Cortez, 314
Cossacks, 334
Cotton fabrics, 102
Couvade, the, 70
Crabs, 23
Crassus, 192, 194, 199
Creation of the world, story of, 1, 116
Creed religions, 240
Cretan script, 94
Crete, 92, 108
Crimea, 419
Crimean War, 390, 434
Crocodiles, 28
CrΕsus, 111, 429
Cro-Magnon race, 51, 54, 65
Cromwell, Oliver, 434
Cronstadt, 419
Crucifixion, 204
Crusades, 267 et seq., 281, 304-05, 432
Crustacea, 13
Ctesiphon, 244
Cuba, 393
Cultivation, the beginnings of, 65 et seq.
Culture, Heliolithic, 69
Culture, Japanese, 402
Cuneiform, 78
Currents, 18
Cyaxares, 109-10, 429
Cycads, 26, 36
Cyrus the Persian, 111, 116, 121, 123, 134, 429
Czech language, 236
Czecho-Slovaks, 351
Czechs, 304
D
Dacia, 195, 200, 203, 227, 236
Dædalus, 94
Dalmatia, 431
Damascus, 243, 253, 431
Danes, 329, 330
Danube, 135, 200, 227, 430
Dardanelles, 136, 147, 292
Darius I, 112, 134, 135, 136, 429
Darius III, 147, 148, 430
Darlington, 356, 434
David, King, 118-19, 429
Da Vinci, Leonardo, 356
Davis, Jefferson, 385, 388
Dawn Man. (See Eoanthropus)
Dead, burning the, 104; burial of (See Burial)
Debtorsβ prisons, 336
Deciduous trees, 36
Decius, Emperor, 200, 432
Declaration of Independence, 334, 434
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbonβs), 288-89
Deer, 42, 56
Defender of the Faith, title of, 313
Defoe, Daniel, 365
Delhi, 292, 433
Democracy, 131, 132, 270
Deniken, General, 419
Denmark, 306, 313, 394, 432
Deshima, 401
Devonian system, 19
Diaz, 433
Dictator, Roman, 194
Dillon, Dr., 424
Dinosaurs, 28, 31, 36
Diocletian, Emperor, 224, 226, 227
Dionysius, 170
Diplodocus Carnegii, measurement of, 28
Diseases, infectious, 379
Ditchwater, animal and plant life in, 13
Dogs, 42
Domazlice, battle of, 305
Dominic, St., 276
Dominician Order, 276, 285, 400
Dorian Greeks, 108, 130
Douglas, Senator, 386
Dover, Straits of, 193
Dragon flies, 23
Drama, Greek, 139
Dravidian civilization, 108
Dravidians, 71
Duck-billed platypus, 34
Duma, the, 416
Durazzo, 268
Dutch, 329, 331, 332, 399
Dutch Guiana, 394
Dutch Republic, 350
Dyeing, 75
E
Earth, the, shape of, 1; rotation of, 1; distance from the sun, 2; age and origin of, 5; surface of, 21
Earthquakes, 95
East India Company, 332, 337, 393, 394
East Indies, 394, 399
Ebro, 182
Ecbatana, 109, 114
Echidna, the, 34
Eclipses, 8
Ecnomus, battle of, 181, 430
Economists, French, 371
Edessa, 271
Education, 294, 361, 368, 369
Egbert, King of Wessex, 263, 432
Egg-laying mammals, 34
Eggs, 24, 26, 31, 102
Egypt (and Egyptians), 71, 78, 90, 91, 62, 96, 98, 100- 101, 115, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 134, 138, 147, 174, 208, 209, 210, 238, 253, 267, 290, 292, 396, 398, 405, 429, 431, 434
Egyptian script,
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