Contents of CHOW and SOTW
Subjects and historical periods in A Child's History of the World by V Hillyer and the five volume Story of the World by MB Synge (click here for that listing)
Hillyer's Child's History of the World Contents and Subject Listing
01 How Things Started - the evolution/creation of the world
02 People Who Lived in Caves - stone age
03 Fire! Fire! Fire! - copper, bronze age, iron age
04 From an Airplane - Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Mesopotamia
05 Real History Begins - 3500 BC first societies
06 The Puzzle Writers in Egypt - hieroglyphics 3000 BC
07 The Tomb Builders - Cheops, Egypt pyramids 2900 BC
08 A Rich Land Where There Was No Money - Assyria, Babylon, cuneiform, 1770 BC
09 The Jews Search for a Home - Ur, 1900 BC, Joseph, Rameses, Exodus, 1300 BC
10 Fairy-Tale Gods - Greek Hellenes, names of gods
11 A Fairy-Tale War - Mt Olympus, Helen of Troy, Paris, Menelaus, Odyssey, Iliad, 1200 BC
12 The Kings of the Jews - Solomon, 950 BC
13 The People Who Made Our ABC's - Cadmus, Phoenicia, 1000 BC
14 Hard as Nails - Lycurgus, Sparta, Laconic, 700 BC?
15 The Crown of Leaves - Greek, Olympics, 776 BC
16 A Bad Beginning - Rome, Romulus, Remus, 770 BC
17 Kings With Corkscrew Curls - Assyria, Ninevah, Sennacherib, 612 BC
18 A City of Wonders and Wickedness - Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon, 600 BC
19 A Surprise Party - Medes, Persians, Cyrus, Croesus, 538 BC
20 The Other Side of the World: India - caste, Hindu, Gautama, Buddhists, 500 BC
21 All The Way Around the World in China - Confucius, Chinese writing, 479 BC
22 Rich Man, Poor Man - Draco, Athens, Code of Draco, 560 BC, Pisistratus, Cleisthenes, 500 BC
23 Rome Kicks Out Her Kings - Tarquin, lictors, Brutus, Horatius at the Bridge, Cincinnatus, 509 BC
24 Greece vs Persia - Darius, Marathon, Pheidippides, battle of Marathon, 490 BC
25 Fighting Mad - Xerxes, Themistocles, Aristides, Hellespont, 500 BC
26 One Against a Thousand - Leonidas, Sparta, Thermopylae, Persia, Xerxes, Salamis
27 The Golden Age - Pericles, Athens, Acropolis, drama, Parthenon, Phidias, Doric style, Herodotus, 450 BC
28 When Greek Meets Greek - Peloponessus/Sparta, Athens, Socrates
29 Wise Men and Otherwise - Philip, Macedon, Demosthenes, Alexander, Aristotle
30 A Boy King - Alexander, Gordian knot, Pharos, 323 BC
31 Picking a Fight - Carthage, Rome, first Phoenician/Punic War
32 The Boot Kicks and Stamps - Hannibal, Alps, Carthage, second Punic War 100 BC
33 The New Champion of the World - All roads lead to Rome, aqueduct, amphitheaters, Scipio, Cornelia's jewels, Gracchi
34 The Noblest Roman of Them All - Julius Caesar, 55 BC, Pompey, Brutus
35 An Emperor Who Was Made a God - Octavius, Cleopatra, Augustus Caesar, colosseum 27 BC
36 Thine is the Kingdom - Jesus, Christianity, Stephen, Paul, 4 BC 33 AD
37 Blood and Thunder - Nero, Rome, Christian persecution, Pompeii, Mt Vesuvius 79 AD
38 A Good Emperor and a Bad Son - Marcus Aurelius, Stoic, Commodus Epicurus
39 I-H--S----V----- - Constantine, 300 AD
40 Barbarian Invaders - Germany, Vikings, Vandals, Gauls, Goths, 400 AD
41 Barbarians Meet the Champions of the World - Huns, Attila, Chalons, 451 AD Leo I 476
42 New Places-New Heroes - Roman, Justinian, Santa Sophia, silk, Clovis, Paris, Arthur, 500
43 Being Good - Benedict, manuscripts, monks, 600
44 A Christian Kingdom in Africa - Nubia, Axum, King Ezana, 330 AD
45 A Camel Driver - Muhammed, Mecca, Muslims, Hegira, 622
46 Arabian Days - Arabic numerals, wool, Baghdad, Timbuktu
47 Two Empires, Two Emperors ("A Light in the Dark Ages" in earlier versions) - Charlemagne, France, Haran, Muslims, 800
48 Getting a Start - Alfred, Danes, England, burning candle, 900
49 The End of the World - Norsemen, Vikings, Leif Ericson, 1000
50 Real Castles - feudal system, medieval serfs, 1000
51 Knights and Days of Chivalry - page, knight, vows
52 A Pirate's Great Grandson - Normandy, William, Rollo, Harold 1066
53 A Great Adventure - Pope Urban, Peter the Hermit, crusaders, 1100
54 Tick-Tack-Toe - Third crusade, 1200, Richard, England, Philip, France, Frederick Barbarossa, Germany
55 Three Kingdoms in West Africa - Ghana, Mali, Songhay, gold, Mansa Musa 1300's
56 Bibles Made of Stone and Glass - cathedrals, Notre Dame, Gothic gargoyles
57 John, Whom Nobody Loved - England, Magna Carta 1215
58 A Great Story Teller - Cathay, China, Kublai Khan, Genghis Khan, Marco Polo 1275
59 Thing-a-ma-Jig - compass, gunpowder, 1300
60 Thelon Gest Wart Hate Verwas - Edward III, Hundred Years War, Crecy, Joan of Arc 1346
61 Off With the Old, On With the New - Gutenberg, 1456, Muslims, Constantinople 1453
62 A Sailor Who Found a New World - Christopher Columbus, Portugal 1492
63 Fortune Hunters - Vasco de Gama, Balboa, Magellan, 1520
64 The Land of Enchantment - El Dorado, Ponce de Leon, de Soto, Cortes, Pizarro, Montezuma
65 Along the Coast of East Africa - Kongo, Ibn Battuta, Africa
66 Rebirth - Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo de Vinci
67 Christians Quarrel - Martin Luther, Catholic, Henry VIII
68 Queen Elizabeth - Mary, Spaniard Philip II Holland, William, Mary Stuart 1588
69 The Age of Elizabeth - Raleigh, Roanoke, Virginia, Shakespeare
70 James the Servant - Scotland, Stuart, Pilgrims, 1620
71 A King Who Lost His Head - Charles I, Cromwell, 1649, Charles II, plague, 1666, Great Fire of London, William and Mary
72 Red Cap and Red Heels - France, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Richelieu, Gustavus Adolphus, Versailles
73 A Self-Made Man - Peter, Russia, 1700, Catherine
74 A Prince Who Ran Away - Frederick, Prussia, Maria Theresa, 1750
75 America Gets Rid of Her King - George III, Washington, Revolution, Cornwallis 1776
76 Upside Down - Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, French revolution, 1789
77 A Little Giant - Napoleon Bonaparte, Waterloo, 1821
78 Latin America and the Caribbean Islands - Haiti, Toussaint, Dessalines, creoles, San Martin Bolivar
79 From Pan and his Pipes to the Phonograph - Palestrina, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner
80 The Daily Papers of 1854-1865 - Florence Nightingale, Crimea, Commodore Perry, Japan, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, 1865
81 Three New Postage Stamps - Napoleon III, Prussia, Bismarck, Kaiser, Germany, Garibaldi 1870
82 The Age of Miracles - James Watt, Stephenson, Fulton, Morse, Edison, Marconi, 1905
83 A Different Kind of Revolution - Industrial revolution, pollution
84 A World at War - Serbians, Austria, Russia WWI 1917
85 A Short Twenty Years - treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, Roosevelt 1940
86 Modern Barbarians - Mussolini, Hitler, Churchill, WWII, 1933
87 Fighting the Dictators - WWII, Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt, Churchill, 1945
88 A New Spirit in the World - United Nations, Ghandi
89 A New BIG POWER in the World - USSR, Lenin, Communism
90 Trying to Keep Peace - United Nations, Korea, Viet Nam, 1990's, USSR split
91 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - discoveries, medicine, end of wars
MB Synge's Story of the World Contents and Subject Listing
Book I On the Shores of the Great Sea
01 The Home of Abraham - Abraham leaves Chaldea
02 Into Africa - Abraham in Egypt
03 An Old Trade-Route - Lot, Joseph
04 Joseph in Egypt - Joseph saves Egypt from famine
05 The Story of the Nile Flood - the Nile floods every year
06 In a Strange Land - Joseph's family comes to Egypt
07 The Children of Israel - slavery and Moses
08 Back to the Fatherland - Jews wander in the desert, then come to Canaan
09 The First Merchant Fleet - Egypt's Queen Hatasu and Thebes
10 Conquerors of the Sea - Phoenicians
11 Early Pioneers - Phoenicia became the mistress of the Great Sea
12 Hiram, King of Tyre - Phoenicia supplied Israel with wood and craftsmen
13 King Solomon's Fleet - Phoenicians and Israelites sailed forth together
14 The Story of Carthage - Pygmalion's daughter Dido sailed to Utica
15 Out of the Shadowland - Egypt's Neco circumnavigated Africa 600 BC, beginning of Greece
16 The Story of the Argonauts - Jason's voyage in the Argo to find the golden fleece
17 The Siege of Troy - Trojan War, Priam, Helen
18 The Adventures of Ulysses
19 The Dawn of History - Greece, Ephesus
20 The Fall of Tyre - 574 B.C.
21 The Rise of Carthage - Cambyses, King of Persia fails to conquer Carthage
22 Hanno's Adventures - Hanno of Carthage, the first explorer
23 Some More About Greece - Olympics, Sparta, Solon
24 A Cloud in the East - Darius
25 The Battle of Marathon - Persia and Greece 490 B.C.
26 King Ahasuerus - Esther, Xerxes, Shushan Palace
27 How Leonidas Kept the Pass - Greeks, Persia, Xerxes
28 Victory for the Greeks - Themistocles, Aristides Greeks defeat Persia
29 Some Greek Colonies - Cyrene, Syracuse
30 Across the Blue Waters - Carthage, Hamilcar, battle of Himera
31 The Beauty of Athens - Pericles
32 The Death of Socrates
33 Retreat of the Ten Thousand - Cyrus, Xenophon
34 The Story of Romulus and Remus - beginning of Rome 753
35 How Horatius Kept the Bridge - Tarquin, Lars Porsena
36 Coriolanus - Rome, Caius Marcius
37 Alexander the Great
38 King of Macedonia - Alexander, Demosthenes
39 Conquest of the East - Alexander, Ephesus, Persia
40 Conquest of India - Alexander's death, Persia, Clitus, King Porus 324
41 Alexander's City - Alexandria, Pharos
42 Back to Rome Again - Camillus, Gauls, King Brennus
43 A Great Conflict - Tarentum, Rome, Pyrrhus
44 The Roman Fleet - Sicily, Carthage, Roman fleet
45 Hannibal's Vow - little Hannibal vows hatred of Rome to his father Hamilcar
46 The Adventures of Hannibal - Spain, Hasdrubal, Alps, Pyrenees to Rome
47 The End of Carthage - Hannibal, Carthage, Scipio, 500 ships 202
48 The Triumph of Rome - Paulus conquered the Macedonians
49 Two Young Romans - Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar
50 Julius Caesar - Rome
51 The Flight of Pompey - Caesar, Rome, Rubicon, Pompey's death
52 The Death of Caesar - the Ides of March
53 The Empire of Rome - Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Augustus
54 Pax Romana - birth of Jesus
Book II The Discovery of New Worlds
01 The Roman World - Augustus Appian Way Rome's domion
02 A Great World Power - Tiberius Caesar Jesus Paul Christianity
03 Voyage and Shipwreck - Paul's missionary journeys
04 The Tragedy of Nero -
05 The Great Fire in Rome - Nero 64 AD
06 The Destruction of Pompeii - 79
07 Marcus Aurelius - Emperor of Rome, Stoic 180
08 Decline of the Roman Empire - Severus Diocletian Constantine 305
09 Christians to the Lions - Ignatius Bishop of Carthage St Cecilia
10 A New Rome - Byzantium Constantine Bosphorus 330
11 The Armies of the North - Goths Huns king Alaric 400 410
12 The Dark Ages - Huns Vandals Attila the Hun Theodoric king of Goths
13 King Arthur and His Knights - Britons Rome Saxons
14 The Hero of Two Nations - Franks Charlemagne Roland 800
15 The Hardy Northmen - Vikings Charlemagne Rollo Normandy 814
16 How the Northmen Conquered England - William the Conqueror Edward the Confessor 1066
17 A Spanish Hero - the Cid Arabs Moors
18 The First Crusade - Turks Peter the Hermit Pope Urban 1092 Godfrey de Bouillon
19 Frederick Barbarossa - Lombardy Italy 1176 Legnano Company of Death Germany
20 The Third Crusade - 1191 Saladin Richard
21 The Days of Chivalry - knighthood Middle Ages
22 Queen of the Adriatic - Venetians Fifth Crusade Dandolo
23 The Story of Marco Polo - 1295 Great Khan China
24 Dante's Great Poem - Florence Divine Comedy
25 The Maid of Orleans - 1426 Joan of Arc Rheims Charles
26 The Sea of Darkness - 1415 Prince Henry Portugal
27 Prince Henry, the Sailor - Cape Blanco
28 A Famous Voyage - Cadamosto 1455 Cape Verde
29 The Invention of Printing - Gutenberg Caxton
30 The Stormy Cape - 1484 Bartholomew Diaz Cape of Good Hope
31 Vasco da Gama's Great Voyage - 1497 Santa Cruz Natal
32 India at Last - Vasco da Gama
33 The New Trade-Route - 1500 Pedro Cabral 1502 India
34 Golden Goa - Affonso d'Albuquerque Portugal 1513 Red Sea Ormuz
35 Christopher Columbus - Portugal Ferdinand and Isabella 1491 New World
36 The Last of the Moors - fall of Granada Ferdinand Muza Alhambra
37 Discovery of the New World - 1492 Columbus Cuba America
38 The West Indies - Columbus 1496 Cadiz
39 Columbus in Chains - 1500 Queen Isabella Hayti
40 A Great Mistake - Copernicus the earth moved round the sun 1543
41 Follow the Leader - John Cabot 1497 Venezuela Amerigo Vespucci 1507
42 Discovery of the Pacific - Vasco Nuñez de Balboa Spain 1513
43 Magellan's Great Plan - Portuguese
44 Magellan's Straits - 1519 Brazil 1520
45 Round the World - 1520 Magellan 1521 South America first circumnavigation of the globe
46 The Finding of Mexico - Hernando Cortes Montezuma 1519
47 Montezuma - Mexico Spaniards Cortes Vera Cruz
48 Siege and Fall of Mexico - Cortes 1521
49 Conquest of Peru - Pizarro 1531 Spain Inca Cuzco
50 A Great Awakening - Prince Henry of Portugal Columbus Copernicus Erasmus
Book III The Awakening of Europe
01 Story of the Netherlands - the dike
02 Brave Little Holland - Maas in twelve ships to the Holy Land
03 A Wealth of Herrings - Crusades Netherlands Beukels Charles V
04 A Dutch Reformer - Erasmus 1467
05 The Story of Martin Luther - 1511 John Tetzel
06 The Diet of Worms - Luther Tetzel 1517
07 A Historic Scene - abdication of Charles Netherlands 1555 Philip, his son
08 How the Trouble Began - Philip Protestant martyrs of the Netherlands Margaret in Brussels Inquisition
09 The Storm Bursts - Philip of Netherlands Spanish army Alva Count Horn 1568
10 Beggars of the Sea - William of Orange The Brille
11 The Massacre of Bartholomew - France Protestants, or Huguenots Henry of Navarre 1572
12 The Siege of Leyden - Prince of Orange 1574
13 William the Silent - William of Orange Netherlands 1584
14 England - Drake Mary Elizabeth 1558
15 Elizabeth's Sailors - Drake John Hawkins 1569
16 Drake's Voyage round the World - Doughty 1579
17 The Great Armada - Spaniards Drake 1588
18 Among the Icebergs - Martin Frobisher two little ships, the Gabriel and Michael Elizabeth 1576
19 Sir Humphrey Gilbert - Elizabeth The Squirrel 1583
20 Virginia - Sir Walter Raleigh 1584
21 Story of the Revenge - Azores Sir Richard Grenville
22 Sir Walter Raleigh - El Dorado 1595 Raleigh killed
23 The Fairy Queen - St George Red Cross Knight Edmund Spenser 1590
24 The Great Dramatist - William Shakespeare
25 The Golden Days of Good Queen Bess - Elizabeth -1603
26 First Voyage of the East India Company - John Davis Sunshine and Moonshine Greenland 1585
27 The Story of Henry Hudson - Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay 1607
28 Captain John Smith - Virginia early colonists Pocahontas 1606
29 The Founding of Quebec - Jacques Cartier France St Lawrence 1534 1603 Champlain
30 The Pilgrim Fathers - James I., King of England Puritans Cape Cod Plymouth Bay 1620
31 Thirty Years of War - Wallenstein Germany Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden 1618-48
32 The Dutch at Sea - Dutch East India Company Piet Hein Cape of Good Hope
33 The Great South Land - Batavia Captain Tasman discovered New Zealand 1642
34 Van Riebeek's Colony - Dutch the Haarlem Janssen and Proot South Africa 1653
35 In the Days of Oliver Cromwell - England Navigation Act 1625
36 Two Famous Admirals - Tromp Dutch English admiral, Blake 1651
37 De Ruyter - Holland sea-fight Dutch England 1666
38 The Founder of Pennsylvania - Quaker William Penn Dutch and Swedish settlers Philadelphia1682
39 The 'Pilgrim's Progress' - John Bunyan
40 The House of Orange - Holland Prince William De Witt Mary 1672
41 William's Invitation - William and Mary The Hague James William and Mary England1688
42 The Struggle in Ireland - William James, son of Charles William III. of England 1689
43 The Siege of Vienna by the Turks - Ottoman empire Sobieski 1683
44 The Greatness of France - Louis XIV Colbert Molière Pascal 1661
45 The Story of the Huguenots - La Rochelle Richelieu France 1685
46 The Greatest General of His Age - Marlborough 1702
47 The Battle of Blenheim - German Black Forest Danube Marlborough 1704
48 How Peter the Great Learned Shipbuilding - Tsar of Russia 1697
49 Charles XII of Sweden - 1707
50 The Boyhood of Frederick the Great - Prussia Palace of Berlin 1740
51 Anson's Voyage round the World - Lord Anson the Centurion Peru 1742
52 Maria Theresa - Austria Hungary Joseph 1741
53 The Story of Scotland - Stuarts James I 1745 Duke of Cumberland
Book IV The Struggle for Sea Power
01 The Story of the Great Mogul - Aurangzeb India
02 Robert Clive - Madras India 1750
03 The Black Hole of Calcutta - siege of Arcot Dupleix Clive Plassey 1756
04 The Struggle for North America - Quebec French Washington 1754
05 George Washington, Soldier and Patriot -
06 How Pitt Saved England - America 1743
07 The Fall of Quebec - 1759
08 The Great Lord Hawke - English Conflans 1759
09 The Boston Tea-Ships - Stamp Act colonies Revolution 1773
10 The Declaration of Independence - Earl of Chatham George Washington Philadelphia 1776
11 Captain Cook's Story - Englishman Resolution Pacific Ocean
12 James Bruce and the Nile - Scotsman Abyssinia 1768 1772
13 The Trial of Warren Hastings - Governor-General of India 1788 1795
14 Marie Antoinette - Vienna Versailles Louis XVI the French Dauphin Turgot 1770
15 The Fall of the Bastile - Louis XVI Marie Antoinette Mirabeau 1789
16 The Flight to Varennes - Paris Louis XVI Marie Antoinette Lafayette Tuileries Count Fersen 1789
17 A Reign of Terror - Tuileries Revolution Charlotte Corday Marat 1793
18 Napoleon Bonaparte - Toulon 1793
19 Horatio Nelson - sailor in the service of England North Pole 1793
20 The Adventures of Mungo Park - Scottish surgeon Africa 1795 Moors Niger river Timbuktu
21 The Adventures of Baron Humboldt - South America 1799
22 The Beginning of the Struggle - France Napoleon and Nelson British admiral Jervis Admiral Duncan Dutch 1797
23 The Battle of the Nile - Napoleon Nelson Casabianca 1798
24 Copenhagen - Nelson Denmark British warships 1800
25 Napoleon, Emperor of the French - Nelson Toulon 1805
26 The Battle of Trafalgar - Nelson Collingwood Hardy
27 The Death of Nelson - Captain Hardy Lord Nelson Trafalgar
28 A Second Charlemagne - Napoleon Poland 1805 Russians and Austrians
29 The Rise of Wellington - Arthur Wellesley Calcutta 1797
30 At the Cape of Good Hope - England Holland
31 The First Australian Colony - Lord Sydney Port Jackson Flinders New South Wales 1863
32 Story of the Slave-Trade - English 1562 Dutch French 1807
33 The Defense of Saragoza - Spain Charles IV Ferdinand Napoleon Augustina Saragoza
34 Sir John Moore at Coruna - Napoleon Spain England1808
35 The Victory of Talavera - Wellesley Spain Portugal Cuesta
36 The Peasant Hero of Tyrol - Bavaria Austria Andrew Hofer 1809
37 The Empire at its Height - Napoleon Josephine Maria Louisa 1811 Russia
38 The Shannon and the Chesapeake - Captain Broke England Captain Lawrence 1813 Boston
39 Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow - Russia
40 Wellington's Victories in Spain - Napoleon 1810
41 Spain for the Spaniards - Wellington Napoleon
42 The Fall of the Empire - Napoleon Leipzig Battle of the Nations Maria Louisa Elba 1813
43 Story of the Steam-Engine - American Fulton 1807 Trevithick George Stephenson
44 The Congress of Vienna - Maria Louisa Napoleon escaped France
45 The Eve of Waterloo - Napoleon Marshal Ney Wellington
46 Waterloo - Wellington Napoleon
47 The Exile of St Helena - Napoleon
Book V Growth of the British Empire
01 How Spain Lost South America - Portugal Bolivar San Martin O'Higgins Lord Cochrane 1818
02 The Heroes of Independence - Miranda Bolivar Venezuela Peru 1828
03 The Greek War - Greek revolution Turks Mesolonghi Byron Ibraham Sir Edward Codrington Otho of Bavaria 1824
04 Victoria--Queen of England - 1837
05 The Great Boer Trek - South Africa Cape of Good Hope Kaffirs 1835
06 The Story of Natal - Chaka Zulu chieftain Dingan Pretorius Blood River Panda Dick King 1842
07 The Story of Canada - Quebec 1812 Lord Durham Upper and Lower Canada 1838
08 The Fur-Trader's Land - Alexander Mackenzie Montreal Red River Massacre British Columbia 1821
09 The Winning of the West - United States Texas El Dorado 1846 San Francisco
10 A Great Arctic Expedition - Sir John Franklin Erebus and Terror Baffin Bay 1845 M'Clintock
11 Discoveries in Australia - Sturt Eyre 1836 John Baxter
12 The Last King of France - Louis Philippe 1832 Prince Louis Napoleon 1848
13 Louis Kossuth and Hungary - 1847
14 The Crimean War - Russia England France Black Sea
15 The Indian Mutiny - 1857 Delhi Cawnpore Sir Hugh Wheeler Nana Sahib Henry Lawrence John Nicholson
16 The Awakening of Italy - Garibaldi 1833 1849 Mazzini Charles Albert King of Sardinia Ugo Bassi
17 The King of United Italy - 1859 Victor Emmanuel Garibaldi Cavour
18 Civil War in America - 1859 John Brown Abraham Lincoln Stonewall Jackson
19 The Mexican Revolution - Monroe doctrine Maximilian of Austria Chapultepec 1865 Porfirio Diaz 1876 James Garfield
20 Founding the German Empire - William of Prussia 1861 Otto von Bismarck 1866
21 The Franco-German War - 1870 Napoleon William
22 The Dream of Cecil Rhodes - South Africa Boer farmers Pretorius diamonds 1869
23 The Dutch Republics of South Africa - Transvaal 1877 Zulu Lord Chelmsford 1881 Paul Kruger
24 Livingstone's Discoveries in Central Africa - 1853 Zambesi Nile Henry Stanley
25 China's Long Sleep - Confucius Opium War 1840 England China Li Hung Chang 1863 Major Gordon
26 The Land of the Rising Sun - Japan Commodore Perry 1853
27 Japan--Britain's Ally - Count Ito 1872 1894
28 Russia - Siberia Tolstoi 1899
29 The Annexation of Burma - Mandalay King Thebaw
30 The Story of Afghanistan - 1880 Abdur Rahman 1901 Habibullah
31 The Empire of India - 1903
32 Gordon--The Hero of Khartum - Egypt Sudan Mandi Colonel Stewart
33 The Redemption of Egypt - Lord Cromer 1898
34 The Story of British West Africa - Gold Coast 1874 Nigeria Sir George Goldie
35 The Story of Uganda - Lugard 1893
36 The Founding of Rhodesia - Cecil Rhodes Lobengula 1888
37 British South Africa - Paul Kruger 1902 Boer and Briton
38 The Dominion of Canada - 1867 1879 Dominion Day 1886
39 Australia--the New Nation - 1901
40 Freedom for Cuba - 1898 Spain America Admiral Dewey
41 Reign of Queen Victoria - 1899
42 Welding the Empire - how to be good citizens
43 Citizenship - education, honest work, love of country