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Title: A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ates. A barelist of dates, without some such use made of it, has little value. PLAN FOR A CHRONOLOGICAL CHART England France Eoly hEm Germany omanbire Italy The Papacy Spain Russia, Scandinavian and Balkan Slates Namesperorsbe writacross of Em-shouldtenthis line. Suggestions: —The Chart may be made by the pupils during the year ; or, as anaid to review at the end of the year. In each column should be entered the namesand dates of the rulers, and the names and dates of the important events in each reign.Contemporary rulers and events should occupy, as far as possible, the same horizon-tal lines. Some events, e.g., the battle of Bouvines, should appear in several columns,since they concern several nations. Individual columns for Russia and the Scandi-navian and Balkan States, etc., may be made at the discretion of the teacher. TheChart may be made upon one or two large sheets of paper, or may be divided into anumber of sheets, taking the events period by period, or century by century.
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A HISTORY OF MEDI/EVALAND MODERN EUROPE CHAPTER I THE DYING EMPIRE AND THE FOREST PEOPLES I. The greatness of the Roman Empire. In the fourth cen-tury of the Christian era the Roman Empire embraced almostevery land then civilized. All the country now borderingupon the Mediterranean was subject to it, and also Britain(modern England). The intelligence and wisdom not merely ofancient Italy, the home land of the conquering Romans, but ofold Greece and older Egypt and Syria had been absorbed bythe men of the Empire. A traveler from the Euphrates River toLondinium (London) would not as to-day have had to passthrough half a score of different countries with varying lan-guages, laws, customs, religions, often sorely hostile one to an-other; he would have been moving continuously within a singlevast empire, all under one firm government, with the same law,the same general manner of religion, the same general socialconventionalities. The same money passed current every-where. If he had had to

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