PART ONE: FIRST THINGS FIRST: Beginnings in History to 500 B.C.E.
Beginnings in History to 500 B.C.E.
photos: left, © De Agostini Picture Library/age fotostock; center, Courtesy, Department of Antiquities of Jordan (DoA)/Photo by John Tsantesi, Courtesy, Dr. Gary O. Rollefson; right, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France/© RMN—
Contents
Chapter 1. First Peoples; First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter, to 4000 B.C.E.
Chapter 2. First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 B.C.E.-500 B.C.E.