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 vi General History of Europe CHAPTER PAGE VII. CONTINUED CONFLICTS AMONG THE GREEK STATES; ART AND LITERATURE AFTER PERICLES I. Political Revolutions 91 II. Greek Art, Literature, and Philosophy 93 VIII. ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC AGE I. Macedonia and Alexander the Great 101 II. The Civilization of the Hellenistic Age 107 BOOK III. THE ROMANS IX. THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD AND THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF ITALY I. Italy and the Origin of Rome 1 16 II. The Early Roman Republic: its Government 120 III. The Expansion of the Roman Republic and the Conquest of Italy 123 X. ROME AND CARTHAGE I. Commercial Power of Carthage ; the First Punic War. . 128 II. The War with Hannibal, or Second Punic War 131 XI. EXTENSION OF ROMAN DOMINION AND ITS RESULTS I. Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean : New Problems. . 137 II. Signs of Degeneration in Town and Country 141 XII. A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION AND THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (133-30 B.C.) I. The Struggle between Senate and People 145 II. Overthrow of the Republic; Pompey and Caesar 147 III. Triumph of Augustus and End of the Civil Wars .... 151 XIII. THE ROMAN EMPIRE FROM AUGUSTUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS I. The Age of Augustus (30 B.C.- A. D. 14) 153 II. Successors of Augustus: Policies of Trajan and Hadrian. 157 III. Civilization of the Roman Empire 161 XIV. A CENTURY OF DISORDER AND THE DIVISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE I. Decline of the Roman Empire. . 171 II. A Century of Revolution 174 III. The Roman Empire becomes an Oriental Despotism. . . 175 IV. The Triumph of Christianity and Division of the Empire. 177