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| Introducing World Prehistory | |
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| Beginnings - 7 Million To 200,000 Years Ago | |
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| Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.9 Million Years Ago | |
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| Archaic Humans: Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens: 1.9 Million to 150,000 Years Ago | |
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| The Great Diaspora: The Origins And Spread Of Modern Humans: C. 200,000 Years Ago to Modern Times | |
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| Origins and the Diaspora Begins c. 200,000 Years Ago and Later | |
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| Europe and Eurasia: c. 48,000 Years Ago to 8000 B.C. | |
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| The First Americans: Around 14000 B.C. to Modern Times | |
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| After the Ice: Before 10000 B.C. to Modern Times | |
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| First Farmers: C. 10000 B.C. To Modern Times | |
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| Agriculture and Animal Domestication | |
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| The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia | |
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| The First European Farmers | |
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| First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa | |
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| Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages | |
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| The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas | |
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| Old World Civilizations: c. 3000 B.C. to Modern Times | |
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| The Development of Civilization | |
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| Early Civilizations in Southwest Asia | |
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| Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa | |
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| Early States in South and Southeast Asia | |
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| Early Chinese Civilization | |
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| Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans | |
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| Europe Before the Romans | |
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| Native American Civilizations: Before 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1534 | |
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| Mesoamerican Civilizations | |
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| Andean Civilizations | |
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| Detailed Table of Contents: | |
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| Introducing World Prehistory | |
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| Archaeology and Prehistory | |
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| The Beginnings of World Prehistory | |
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| Who Needs the Past? | |
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| Studying Culture and Culture Change | |
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| Primary Cultural Processes | |
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| Theoretical Approaches: Culture as Adaptation | |
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| Theoretical Approaches: Evolutionary Ecology and Hunter-Gatherers | |
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| Theoretical Approaches: People as Agents of Change | |
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| Beginnings - 7 Million to 200,000 Years Ago | |
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| Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.9 Million Years Ago | |
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| The Great Ice Age | |
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| The Origins of the Human Line | |
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| Molecular Biology and Human Evolution | |
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| The Ecological Problems Faced by Early Hominins | |
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| Fossil Evidence: 7 to 4 mya | |
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| The First Australopithecines: c. 4 to 3 mya | |
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| Fossil Evidence: 3 to 2.5 mya | |
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| Early Homo: 2.5 to 2.0 mya | |
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| Who Was the First Human? | |
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| Archaeological Evidence for Early Human Behavior | |
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| Plant Foraging and "Grandmothering" | |
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| Toolmaking | |
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| The Mind of the Earliest Humans | |
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| The Development of Language | |
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| Social Organization | |
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| Archaic Humans: Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens: 1.9 Million to 150,000 Years Ago | |
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| Pleistocene Background | |
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| Homo ergaster in Africa | |
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| The Radiation of Homo ergaster | |
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| Out of Africa: Homo erectus in Asia | |
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| Moving to the North: The Settlement of Temperate Latitudes | |
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| Archaic Human Technology | |
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| Evidence for Behavior: Boxgrove, Schningen, and Torralba | |
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| Language | |
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| The Neanderthals | |
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| A More Complex Technology | |
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| The Origins of Burial and Religious Belief | |
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| Neanderthal Speech? | |
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| The Denisovans | |
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| The Great Diaspora: The Origins and Spread of Modern Humans: c. 200,000 Years Ago to Modern Times | |
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| Origins and the Diaspora Begins c. 200,000 Years Ago and Later | |
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| Origins | |
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| Out of Africa | |
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| When did Modern Cognitive Skills appear? | |
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| First AMH Settlement in East and Southeast Asia | |
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| New Guinea and Adjacent Islands | |
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| Australia | |
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| African Hunter-Gatherers | |
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| Europe and Eurasia: c. 48,000 Years Ago to 8000 B.C. | |
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| Unsuccessful Colonization | |
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| Successful Colonization | |
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| The Upper Pleistocene (c. 126,000 Years Ago to 8000 B.C.) | |
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| Aurignacians and Their Successors (39,000 years ago to 8000 B.C.) | |
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| Settling Eurasia (39,000to 15,000Years Ago) | |
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| Siberia (33,000to 13,000Years Ago) | |
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| Bifaces, Microblades, and the First Americans | |
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| The First Americans: Around 14000 B.C. to Modern Times | |
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| The First Settlement of the Americas | |
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| Ice Sheets and the Bering Land Bridge | |
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| The First Settlement of Alaska | |
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| Biological and Linguistic Evidence for the First Americans | |
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| Settlement Routes: Ice-Free Corridors and Seacoasts | |
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| The Paleo-Indians: Clovis and Others | |
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| Big-Game Extinctions | |
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| Later Hunters and Gatherers | |
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| Plains Hunters | |
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| The Desert West | |
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| Eastern North America | |
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| Specialized Foraging Societies in Central and South America | |
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| Aleuts and Inuit (Eskimo) | |
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| After the Ice: Before 10000 B.C. to Modern Times | |
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| The Holocene (After 10000 B.C.) | |
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| Coping with Environmental Variation | |
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| Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe | |
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| Mesolithic Complexity in Scandinavia | |
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| Hunter-Gatherer Complexity | |
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| Hunter-Gatherer Societies in Southwest Asia | |
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| First Farmers: c. 10000 B.C. to Modern Times | |
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| Agriculture and Animal Domestication | |
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| Theories About the Origins of Food Production | |
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| Differing Dates for Food Production | |
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| Studying Early Food Production | |
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| Why Did Food Production Take Hold So Late? | |
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| Consequences of Food Production | |
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| Nutrition and Early Food Production | |
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| Herding: Domestication of Animals | |
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| Plant Cultivation | |
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| Technology and Domestication | |
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| The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia | |
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| Climate Change and Adaptation | |
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| The First Farmers | |
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| The Zagros and Mesopotamia | |
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| Early Farmers in Anatolia | |
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| Two Stages of Farming Development | |
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| The First European Farmers | |
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| Mesolithic Prelude | |
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| The Transition to Farming in Europe | |
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| Farming in Greece and Southern Europe | |
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| The Spread of Agriculture into Temperate Europe | |
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| Frontiers and Transitions | |
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| Social Changes, Lineages, and the Individual | |
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| The Introduction of the Plow | |
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| Plains Farmers: Tripolye | |
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| Mediterranean and Western Europe | |
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| The Megaliths | |
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| First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa | |
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| Hunter-Gatherers on the Nile | |
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| Agricultural Origins Along the Nile | |
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| Saharan Pastoralists | |
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| Early Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages | |
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| The Origins of Rice Cultivation | |
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| Early Farming in China | |
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| Jomon and Early Agriculture in Japan | |
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| Early Agriculture in Southeast Asia | |
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| Rice and Root Cultivation in Island Southeast Asia | |
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| Agriculture in the Pacific Islands | |
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| The Lapita Cultural Complex and the Settlement of Melanesia and Western Polynesia | |
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| Long-Distance Voyaging in the Pacific | |
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| The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas | |
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| The First Plant Domestication | |
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| Early Food Production in the Andes | |
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| Early Farmers in Southwestern North America | |
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| Preagricultural and Agricultural Societies in Eastern North America | |
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| Moundbuilder Cultures | |
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| Human Settlement in the Caribbean | |
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| Old World Civilizations: c. 3000 B.C. to Modern Times | |
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| The Development of Civilization | |
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| Civilization | |
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| Cities | |
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| Six Classic Theories of the Emergence of States | |
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| Social Theories | |
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| Imploding Civilizations | |
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| Early Civilizations in Southwest Asia | |
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| Upland Villages | |
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| Settlement of the Lowlands | |
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| Uruk: The Mesopotamian City | |
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| Sumerian Civilization | |
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| Exchange on the Iranian Plateau | |
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| The Widening of Political Authority | |
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| The Akkadians | |
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| Babylon | |
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| The Assyrians | |
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| Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa | |
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| The Origins of the Egyptian State | |
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| Archaic Egypt and the Creation of the Great Culture (2920 to 2575 B.C.) | |
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| The Old Kingdom and the Pyramids (c. 2575 to 2180 B.C.) | |
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| The Egyptian State | |
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| The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (2180 to 1640 B.C.) | |
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| The Second Intermediate Period (1640 to 1530 B.C.) | |
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| The New Kingdom (1530 to 1070 B.C.) | |
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| The Late Period (1070 to 332 B.C.) | |
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| Egypt and Africa | |
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| Nubia: The Land of Kush | |
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| Meroe and Aksum | |
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| North Africa | |
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| Jenne-jeno and the Rise of West African States | |
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| Farmers and Traders in Eastern and Southern Africa | |
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| Europe and Africa | |
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| Early States in South and Southeast Asia | |
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| The Roots of South Asian Civilization | |
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| Highlands and Lowlands: The Kulli Complex | |
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| A Rapid Transition | |
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| Mature Harappan Civilization | |
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| South Asia After the Harappans | |
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| Southeast Asian States | |
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| The Angkor State (A.D. 802 to 1430) | |
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| Early Chinese Civilization | |
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| The Origins of Chinese Civilization | |
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| Erlitou: Xia and Shang | |
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| The Warlords | |
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| Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans | |
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| Early Towns in Anatolia | |
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| Balance of Power: The Hittites | |
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| The Sea Peoples and the Rise of Israel | |
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| The Phoenicians | |
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| The Aegean and Greece | |
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| The Minoans | |
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| The Mycenaeans | |
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| Greek City-States After Mycenae | |
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| The Etruscans and the Romans | |
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| Europe Before the Romans | |
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| Early Copper Working | |
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| Battle Axes and Beakers | |
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| The European Bronze Age | |
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| Bronze Age Warriors | |
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| The Scythians and Other Steppe Peoples | |
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| The First Ironworking | |
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| The Hallstatt Culture | |
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| La Tne Culture | |
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| Native American Civilizations: Before 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1534 | |
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| Mesoamerican Civilizations | |
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| Village Farming | |
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| Preclassic Peoples in Mesoamerica | |
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| The Rise of Complex Society in Oaxaca | |
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| Monte Albn | |
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| Teotihuacn | |
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| Maya Civilization | |
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| The Ninth-Century Collapse | |
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| The Toltecs | |
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| Aztec Civilization and the Spanish Conquest | |
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| Andean Civilizations | |
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| The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization | |
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| Coastal Foundations: The Initial Period | |
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| Chavn de Huntar | |
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| Paracas: Textiles and Coastal Prehistory | |
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| Complex Society in the Southern Highlands: Chiripa and Pukara | |
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| The Early Intermediate Period | |
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| The Moche State | |
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| The Middle Horizon: Tiwanaku and Wari | |
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| The Late Intermediate Period: Sicn and Chimor | |
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| The Late Horizon: The Inca State | |
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| Amazonia | |
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| The Spanish Conquest (1532 to 1534) | |