Contents: Part one: section A. the ancient world c. 5000 B.C. - c. 1 B.C. ; section B. the roman empire and its decline c. 1 A.D. - c. 500 A.D. ; section C. the early middle ages c. 500 - c. 1050. ; section D. the high middle ages c. 1050 - c. 1270 ; section E. the later middle ages and the renaissance c. 1270 - c. 1517 ; section F. the reformation and the wars of religion c. 1517 - c. 1660.Part two: section G. europe in the age of Louis XIV 1660 - 1715 ; section H. the eighteenth century 1715 - 89 ; section I. the french revolution and Napoleon ; section J. the growth of nationalism and liberalism ; section K. the new industrialism and imperialism ; section L. two world wars and the years between 1914 - 47.