PART ONE: FIRST THINGS FIRST

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Beginnings in History to 600 B.C.E.

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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.-600 B.C.E.