Description: Introduction Study of HistoryLearning About the Past Looking at History Chapter 1: The First Six Million Years Climate and EnvironmentHuman EvolutionStone Age EconomicsLife at the End of the Ice AgeConclusion Timeline Chapter 2: The Origins of Agriculture Setting the StageHow it really happenedThe Spread of Agriculture and the Making of Today's WorldBut What about the rest of the world?The origins of family, private property, and the villageConclusion Timeline Chapter 3: Chiefs and Kings After the Village, Before the State: Surplus, Chieftains, and Temples The Political and Economic Foundations of Archaic StatesInventing the StateConclusionTimeline Chapter 4: The Elaboration of Civilizations Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic Bronze Age Economics Government and Law Conclusion Timeline Chapter 5: Ancient Worlds: Interaction and Change in the Ancient World Comparisons and ConnectionsThe Secondary Products RevolutionThe Implication of the Secondary Products RevolutionThe Collapse of an Ancient NetworkConclusionTimeline

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