| Foreword | p. xiii |
| The Glory That Was Rome | |
| Wandering Through the Roman Empire | p. 1 |
| The Fall of Rome | p. 5 |
| The Early Days of Britain | |
| The Celts of Britain | p. 9 |
| Barbarians Come to Britain | p. 13 |
| Beowulf the Hero | p. 15 |
| Christianity Comes to Britain | |
| Augustine Comes to England | p. 20 |
| Medieval Monasteries | p. 24 |
| Writing Books by Hand | p. 26 |
| The Byzantine Empire | |
| The Beauty of Constantinople | p. 30 |
| Justinian, the Just Emperor | p. 33 |
| The Empress Theodora | p. 35 |
| The Church in the East | p. 38 |
| The Medieval Indian Empire | |
| A King Named Skandagupta | p. 43 |
| Monks in Caves | p. 47 |
| The Rise of Islam | |
| Muhammad's Vision | p. 50 |
| Muhammad Flees to Medina | p. 53 |
| The Koran: Islam's Holy Book | p. 56 |
| Islam Becomes an Empire | |
| The Fight for Mecca | p. 59 |
| The Spread of Islam | p. 62 |
| The City of Baghdad | p. 64 |
| Sinbad in the Valley of Snakes | p. 69 |
| The Great Dynasties of China | |
| Yang Chien Unites North and South | p. 73 |
| The Tang Dynasty | p. 76 |
| East of China | |
| The Yamato Dynasty of Japan | p. 80 |
| A Tale of Three Countries; Korea, China, and Japan | p. 85 |
| The Bottom of the World | |
| The First People of Australia | p. 89 |
| The Long Journey of the Maori | p. 92 |
| The Kingdom of the Franks | |
| Clovis, The Ex-Barbarian | p. 97 |
| Four Tribes, One Empire | p. 101 |
| The Islamic Invasion | |
| Islam in Spain and Africa | p. 104 |
| The Great Kings of France | |
| Charles the Hammer | p. 108 |
| The Greatest King: Charlemagne | p. 110 |
| The Arrival of the Norsemen | |
| The Viking Invasion | p. 115 |
| Eric the Red and "Eric's Son" | p. 118 |
| The Norse Gods | p. 122 |
| Thor and the Giant King | p. 123 |
| The First Kings of England | |
| The Vikings Invade England | p. 129 |
| Alfred the Great | p. 132 |
| The Battle of Hastings | p. 136 |
| England After the Conquest | |
| The English Language | p. 140 |
| Serfs and Noblemen | p. 144 |
| Stone Castles | p. 147 |
| Knights and Samurai | |
| The English Code of Chivalry | p. 152 |
| The Samurai: Japanese Knights | p. 155 |
| The Age of Crusades | |
| A Command from the Pope | p. 160 |
| Recapturing Jerusalem | p. 164 |
| Saladin of Jerusalem | p. 167 |
| El Cid and the "Reconquest of Spain" | p. 170 |
| A New Kind of King | |
| Richard the Lionhearted | p. 174 |
| John Lackland and the Magna Carta | p. 177 |
| Robin Hood | p. 180 |
| Robin Hood and the Butcher | p. 181 |
| The Diaspora | |
| The Scattering of the Jews | p. 186 |
| A Tale of the Diaspora | p. 189 |
| The Clever Rabbi of Cordova | p. 189 |
| The Mongols Devastate the East | |
| Genghis Khan, Emperor of All Men | p. 193 |
| The Mongol Conquest of China | p. 196 |
| Exploring the Mysterious East | |
| Marco Polo Goes to China | p. 200 |
| The Forbidden City of the Ming | p. 204 |
| The First Russians | |
| The Rus Come to Constantinople | p. 208 |
| Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible | p. 211 |
| The Ottoman Empire | |
| The Ottoman Turks Attack | p. 215 |
| The Sheep-Rocks | p. 216 |
| The Capture of Constantinople | p. 218 |
| Suleiman the Lawgiver | p. 223 |
| The End of the World | |
| The Plague | p. 227 |
| A New Way of Living | p. 231 |
| France and England at War | |
| Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt | p. 235 |
| Joan of Arc | p. 240 |
| War for the English Throne | |
| The Wars of the Roses | p. 244 |
| The Princes in the Tower | p. 248 |
| The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal | |
| Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain | p. 253 |
| Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal | p. 257 |
| African Kingdoms | |
| Gold, Salt, and Ghana | p. 261 |
| Mansa Musa of Mali | p. 265 |
| The Songhay Empire | p. 268 |
| India Under the Moghuls | |
| The Moghul Dynasty | p. 272 |
| Akbar of India | p. 276 |
| The Bad-Luck Servant | p. 278 |
| Exploring New Worlds | |
| Christopher Columbus | p. 281 |
| Vespucci and Magellan | p. 286 |
| The American Kingdoms | |
| The Mayans of Central America | p. 290 |
| The Marvelous City of Tenochtitlan | p. 294 |
| The Incas | p. 297 |
| Spain, Portugal, and the New World | |
| The Slave Trade | p. 301 |
| Cortes and Montezuma | p. 305 |
| Martin Luther's New Ideas | |
| Martin Luther's List | p. 309 |
| Henry VIII's Problem | p. 313 |
| The Renaissance | |
| A New Way of Thinking | p. 318 |
| Gutenberg's Great Invention | p. 322 |
| Reformation and Counter Reformation | |
| The Spread of the Reformation | p. 327 |
| The Council of Trent | p. 330 |
| The New Universe | |
| The Revolution of Copernicus | p. 334 |
| Galileo's Strange Notions | p. 338 |
| England's Greatest Queen | |
| The Queen Who Almost Wasn't | p. 342 |
| Good Queen Bess | p. 346 |
| England's Greatest Playwright | |
| William Shakespeare | p. 351 |
| Macbech | p. 353 |
| Macbeth's Decision | p. 356 |
| New Ventures to the Americas | |
| Walter Raleigh and the New World | p. 361 |
| The Lost Colony | p. 365 |
| Explorations in the North | |
| The New-Found Land | p. 370 |
| Jacques Cartier's Discoveries | p. 374 |
| Empires Collide | |
| Spain and England's War | p. 379 |
| The World at the End of the Sixteenth Century | p. 384 |
| Chronology of The Middle Ages | |
| Dates in Volume 2 | p. 389 |
| A Geography of The Middle Ages | |
| A List of Maps in Volume 2 | p. 395 |
| Pronouncing the Names of The Middle Ages | |
| A Pronunciation Guide for Reading Aloud | p. 397 |
| Index | p. 403 |
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