Table of Contents Part I Chapter 2- "The True History and the Religion of India"

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History of the origin and the development of the languages of the world; and the origin and the development of Greek, Roman and western religions and civilizations from 4th millennium BC to 20th century AD.............................	95
(1) Early civilizations and the development of writing systems in the world....................	95
The origin of primitive writing systems...........................................................................................	95
Sumerians and the first writing system in the world.........................................................................	96
The hieroglyphics, and the language and religion of ancient Egypt....................................................	96
Sumerians and Babylonians...........................................................................................................	97
(Diagram showing an example of Sumerian writing systems)..........................................................	97
(Diagram showing an example of Egyptian writing systems)...........................................................	97
Egyptian language and Egyptian gods............................................................................................	100
The Assyrians..............................................................................................................................	100
The Semites.................................................................................................................................	101
The origin of alphabets and the languages of the world..................................................................	102
The origin of alphabets.................................................................................................................	103
Phoenician and Greek alphabets and languages..............................................................................	103
Descendants of Greek alphabet.....................................................................................................	105
(Diagram of early alphabets, Phoenician to early Latin)..................................................................	106
(Diagram of Square (Modern) Hebrew alphabet)...........................................................................	107
(Diagram of Modern Greek alphabet)............................................................................................	107
Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic and Persian alphabets and languages......................................................	108
Avesta and Pahlavi......................................................................................................................	111
(2) History of Greek civilization, language and religion......................................................	113
Early civilization...........................................................................................................................	113
The development of Greek language..............................................................................................	114
Dialects and the Modern Greek.....................................................................................................	115
Culture, literature and the religion of Greece..................................................................................	116
The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.............................................................................................	117
The origin of Homer’s mythological imaginations and the customs of Greece...................................	118
Gods and goddesses of Greece.....................................................................................................	119
The prime gods and goddesses of Greek mythology........................................................................	120
The sacrificial rites.......................................................................................................................	122
(3) History of Roman civilization, language and religion....................................................	125
The development of Latin language and Romance languages..........................................................	125
Classical and Vulgar Latin............................................................................................................	126
Ancient Rome and a brief history of the Roman Empire.................................................................	127
Culture, literature and the religion of the Romans..........................................................................	130
Culture and life............................................................................................................................	130
Bloody recreations.......................................................................................................................	130
Feasts.........................................................................................................................................	130
Early mythologies and the writings like the Aeneid and the Theogony etc.........................................	131
Romulus and Remus.....................................................................................................................	132
The beginning of the mythologies...................................................................................................	135
Roman gods and goddesses..........................................................................................................	135
Rites and sacrifices......................................................................................................................	137
Roman religion from the 1st century AD to the 4th century AD......................................................	137
The prime origin and the concepts of the words ‘god/God’ and ‘messiah’ and the true definition of God...............................................................................................................................	143
God.............................................................................................................................................	143
The true definition of God.............................................................................................................	146
(4) A comprehensive view of the religions of the Greeks and the Romans, and the true form of the supreme God...........................................................................................	151
A comprehensive view of the chief god of Greeks, Romans, and the God of the New and Old Testaments............................................................................................................................	151
Various concepts of God in the West.............................................................................................	152
Reconciliation..............................................................................................................................	153
Spiritual merits of the transcendental experiences of the pious religious people of the West...............	154
A brief history of the religious movements in Europe......................................................................	156
‘Indulgences’ and the Reformation................................................................................................	160
How does the western concept of God compare with the celestial gods that are described in Bhartiya scriptures.......................................................................................................................	165
The material and celestial dimensions, and the Divine dimensions of the supreme God (Diagram p. 164)..........................................................................................................................	165
Comparisons of the western concept of God with the celestial gods of our scriptures........................	166
The philosophical illusion of western religions.................................................................................	169
The universal Divine religion of Bharatvarsh..................................................................................	170
Purity of the heart and non-vegetarianism......................................................................................	172
What are the intuitions?................................................................................................................	173
(5) History, language and the civilization of the British Isles and the Germanic languages..............................................................................................................	175
The Germanic languages..................................................................................................................	175
East Germanic.............................................................................................................................	176
North Germanic...........................................................................................................................	176
West Germanic............................................................................................................................	176
German.......................................................................................................................................	177
The Proto-Germanic language; Grimm, Bopp and Vernerv..............................................................	179
The speculation of Proto-Indo-European language and Sanskrit morphology.....................................	182
The development of the English language......................................................................................	184
Old English (9th and 10th century).................................................................................................	185
Middle English (11th to 14th century).............................................................................................	186
Chaos of the 13th century.............................................................................................................	186
Early Modern English (1500 to 1660).............................................................................................	187
Borrowings..................................................................................................................................	188
Inflections modified......................................................................................................................	188
Modern English (1660 onward).....................................................................................................	189
Morphology and the vocabulary of Modern English.........................................................................	190
The latest form of the most advanced English language..................................................................	192
The literature...................................................................................................................................	192
Brief descriptions of the notable masterpieces of the literature of England, and the story of Dionysian worship by the Greeks and the Romans..........................................................................	192
Early conquests and the religions of the British Isles.....................................................................	200
Early invaders..............................................................................................................................	201
Early religion of the British Isles....................................................................................................	202
Rites and sacrifices of the Celts....................................................................................................	202
Rites and mythology of the Germanic people..................................................................................	203
A general survey of the history of England.....................................................................................	204
Early history................................................................................................................................	204
Hundred Years’ War between England and France........................................................................	205
Thirty years’ war between the two English families (1455-1485).....................................................	207
Church of England becomes predominant......................................................................................	209
The Long Parliament....................................................................................................................	210
The Great Fire of London.............................................................................................................	211
The American Revolution or the Revolutionary War in America......................................................	212
Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence..................................................................	213
East India (merchants trading) Company.......................................................................................	215
The rise of the British Empire.......................................................................................................	216
The Opium War (1839-1842)........................................................................................................	217
The British Rule in India...............................................................................................................	217
The Great Depression of 1929......................................................................................................	219
Ireland........................................................................................................................................	219
World War II...............................................................................................................................	220
Britain after 1945.........................................................................................................................	222

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History of the origin and the development of the languages of the world; and the origin and the development of Greek, Roman and western religions and civilizations from 4th millennium BC to 20th century AD.............................