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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations | xi | |||
List of Maps | xv | |||
List of Plates | xviii | |||
Suggestions for Further Study | xx | |||
CHAPTER | ||||
I. | Prehistoric Times | |||
1. | Introductory | 1 | ||
2. | Man's Place in Nature | 2 | ||
3. | The Old Stone Age | 8 | ||
4. | The New Stone Age | 12 | ||
5. | The Age of Metals | 15 | ||
6. | Races of Man | 17 | ||
7. | Languages of Man | 21 | ||
8. | Writing and the Alphabet | 23 | ||
II. | The Ancient Orient | |||
9. | The Lands of the Near East | 29 | ||
10. | The Peoples of the Near East | 32 | ||
11. | Social Conditions | 40 | ||
12. | Economic Conditions | 44 | ||
13. | Commerce and Commercial Routes | 46 | ||
14. | Law and Morality | 49 | ||
15. | Religion | 52 | ||
16. | Literature and Art | 55 | ||
17. | Science | 58 | ||
18. | Orient and Occident | 62 | ||
III. | Greece | |||
19. | The Lands of the West | 65 | ||
20. | The Mediterranean Basin | 68 | ||
21. | The Ægeans | 71 | ||
22. | The Greeks | 73 | ||
23. | The Greek City-States | 79 | ||
24. | Colonial Expansion of Greece | 82 | ||
25. | The Persian Wars, 499-479 B.C. | 84 | ||
26. | Athens, 469-431 B.C. | 89 |
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