A Short History of the World（世界简史）

Great conquerors appear in the dim light of that distant time and pass, Tushratta, King of Mitanni, who captured Nineveh, Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria who conquered Babylon. At last the Assyrians became the greatest military power of the time. Tiglath Pileser III conquered Babylon in 745 B.C. and founded what historians call the New Assyrian Empire. Iron had also come now into civilization out of the north; the Hittites, the precursors of the Armenians, had it first and communicated its use to the Assyrians, and an Assyrian usurper, Sargon II, armed his troops with it.

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讲述了从地球诞生到第一次世界大战结束的整个历史——这本是一项令人生畏的庞大事业，但在威尔士的笔下，它并不冗长繁杂，反而笔触简明，读来饶有趣味。威尔士自由的世界观，对历史、政治、宗教、哲学和科技研究的融会贯通，使此书在1922年出版之后，历经时代变迁，至今仍保持着新鲜和动人的激情。

赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯（Herbert George Wells，1866年9月21日－1946年8月13日），英国著名小说家，新闻记者、政治家、社会学家和历史学家。他创作的科幻小说对该领域影响深远，如“时间旅行”、“外星人入侵”、“反乌托邦”等都是20世纪科幻小说中的主流话题。