1.THE SETTING OF THE STAGE
2.OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS
3.PREHISTORIC MAN BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS FOR HIMSELF
4.THE EGYPTIANS INVENT THE ART OF WRITING AND THE RECORD OF HISTORY BEGINS
5.THE BEGINNING OF CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE
6.THE RISE AND FALL OF EHYPT
7.MESOPOTAMIA-THE SECOND CENTRE OF EASTERN CIVILISATION
8.THE SUMERIAN NAIL WRITERS,WHOSE CLAY TABLETS TELL US THE STORY OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA,THE GREAT SEMITIC MELTING-POT
9.THE STORY OF MOSES,THE LEADER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
10.THE PHENICIANS,WHO GAVE US OUR ALPHABET
11.THE INDO-EUROPEAN PERSIANS CONQUER THE SEMITIC AND THE EGYPTIAN WORLD
12.THE PEOPLE OF THE AEGEAN SEA CARRIED THE CIVILISATION OF OLD ASIA INTO THE WILDERNESS OF EUROPE
13.MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE OF THE HELLENES WAS TAKING POSSESSION OF GREECE
14.THE GREEK CITIES THAT WERE REALLY STATES
15.THE GREEKS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO TRY THE DIFFICULT EXPERIMENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
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