Abstract
The author inquires into the historical meaning that is comprised in the universal history by the three millenia from the Sumerian city-states to the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great, after trying to give a sketch of the world history conceived in his own way as forming a “structural” entity.
By the way, what does he mean by that term: a “structural” entity?
One may form an idea of what it is through the following schema, representing what he believes 4 classical ages of the world history:
In China, from Chin-Han Empire (221 B. C. -221 A. D.) to Sui-Tang Empire (581-907 A. D.)
In India, from Maurya Empire (ca. 320-185 B. C.) to Gupta Empire and the King Siladitya (ca. 320-647 A. D.)
In Orient from Persian Empire (539-330 B. C.) to Sassanid Empire (226-651 A. D.)
In Occident, from Roman Empire (29 B. C. -476 A. D.) to Carolingian Empire (800-840 A. D.)
In other words, the author believes to see in these 4 sets of worldwide Empires the Classical Epoch of the universal history, after which comes, in his conception, our own New Epoch i. e. modern times, distinguished at its opening by those remarkable phenomena as 1) Entrance of Japan on the stage of world History; 2) Births of the western nations, such as France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc.; 3) Islamism and its bursting expansion, and so on.
Turning his glance back towards the farther past, the author now asks what imply the three millenia up to the Cyrus' Empire in the Orient and tries to interpret them as the process from the city-states to the World Empire through the stage of the territory states.
