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CONTENTS

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   The Setting of the Stage ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   Our Earliest Ancestors ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   Prehistoric Man Begins to Make Things for Himself ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   The Egyptians Invent the Art of Writing and the Record of History Begins ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   The Beginning of Civilisation in the Valley of the Nile ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   The Rise and Fall of Egypt ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   Mesopotamia, the Second Centre of Eastern Civilisation ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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   The Sumerian Nail Writers, Whose Clay Tablets Tell Us the Story of Assyria and Babylonia, the Great Semitic Melting-Pot ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Story of Moses, the Leader of the Jewish People ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Phœnicians, Who Gave Us Our Alphabet ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Indo-European Persians Conquer the Semitic and the Egyptian World ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The People of the Ægean Sea Carried the Civilisation of Old Asia Into the Wilderness of Europe ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    Meanwhile the Indo-European Tribe of the Hellenes Was Taking Possession of Greece ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Greek Cities That Were Really States ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Greeks Were the First People to Try the Difficult Experiment of Self-Government ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    How the Greeks Lived ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Origins of the Theatre, the First Form of Public Amusement ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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