Excerpt from Putnam's Handbook of Universal History: A Series of Chronological Tables Presenting, in Parallel Columns, a Record of the More Noteworthy Events in the History of the World From the Earliest Times Down to the Present Day, Together With an Alphabetical Index of Subjects The historians will probably agree that no war in history has produced such momentous and far-reaching results, for the Status Of the nations and for the interests of the peoples Of the world, as have been broug'ht by this war Of 1914 - 1919. These results include not only the O'verthrow Of the Prussian, Austrian, and the Russian Empires, but the repudiation, prob ably fo'r all time, Of the theories Of government by divine right. Czars, Kaisers, and Kings have been swept away to be replaced by governments which will be directly representative of the popular will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.