John Clark Ridpath 
Ridpath’s Universal History [PDF ebook] 
An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition, and Race Development of the Greater Divisions of Mankind, and Also of the Principal Events in the Evolution and Progress of Nations From the Beginnings of the Civilized Life to the Close of the Nineteenth Cen

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