This booklet is the vintage creation to the heritage of early guy. beginning greater than 340,000 years in the past, while man's skill to make a hearth and type stone instruments helped him to outlive one of the wild beasts, it strains his improvement as a meals manufacturer, the emergence of towns and states, the increase of international exchange, and the city revolution. Contents comprise: Chronological desk for Egypt and Mesopotamia, Human and average historical past, natural Evolution and Cultural growth, Time Scales, nutrition Gatherers, the Neolithic Revolution, Prelude to the second one Revolution, the city Revolution, the Revolution in Human wisdom, the Acceleration and Retardation of growth.
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