Archives

• Copyright Status and Credits
• 1.0 The Earth in Space and Time

• 10.0 Neolithic Man in Europe
  • 10.1 The Age of Cultivation Begins
  • 10.2 Where did the Neolithic Culture Arise?
  • 10.3 Everyday Neolithic Life
  • 10.4 Primitive Trade
  • 10.5 The Flooding of the Mediterranean Valley
• 11.0 Early Thought
  • 11.1 Primitive Philosophy
  • 11.2 The Old Man in Religion
  • 11.3 Fear and Hope in Religion
  • 11.4 Stars and Seasons
  • 11.5 Story-telling and Myth-making
  • 11.6 Complex Origins of Religion
• 12.0 The Races of Mankind
  • 12.1 Is Mankind Still Differentiating?
  • 12.2 The Main Races of Mankind
  • 12.3 The Heliolithic Culture of Brunet Peoples
• 13.0 The Languages of Mankind
  • 13.1 No One Primitive Language
  • 13.2 The Aryan Languages
  • 13.3 The Semitic Languages
  • 13.4 The Hamitic Languages
  • 13.5 The Ural-Altaic Languages
  • 13.6 The Chinese Languages
  • 13.7 Other Language Groups
  • 13.8 A Possible Primitive Language Group
  • 13.9 Some Isolated Languages
• 14.0 The First Civilizations
  • 14.1 Early Cities and Early Nomads
  • 14.2.1 Early Civilzations: The Sumerians
  • 14.2.2 Early Civilzations: The Empire of Sargon the First
  • 14.2.3 Early Civilizations: The Empire of Hammurabi
  • 14.2.4 Early Civilizations: The Assyrian Empire
  • 14.2.5 Early Civilizations: The Chaldean Empire
  • 14.3 The Early History of Egypt
  • 14.4 The Early Civilization of India
  • 14.5 The Early History of China
  • 14.6 While the Civilizations were Growing
• 15.0 Sea Peoples and Trading Peoples
  • 15.1 The Earliest Ships and Sailors
  • 15.2 The Aegean Cities before History
  • 15.3 The First Voyages of Exploration
  • 15.4 Early Traders
  • 15.5 Early Travellers
• 16.0 Writing
  • 16.1 Picture Writing
  • 16.2 Syllable Writing
  • 16.3 Alphabet Writing
  • 16.4 The Place of Writing in Human Life
• 17.0 Gods and Stars, Priests and Kings
  • 17.1 The Priest Comes into History
  • 17.2 Priests and the Stars
• 18.0 Serfs, Slaves, Social Classes and Free Individuals
• 2.0 The Record of the Rocks
  • 2.1 The First Living Things
  • 2.2 How Old is the World?
• 3.0 Natural Selection and Changes of Species
  • 3.0 Natural Selection and Changes of Species
• 4.0 The Invasion of the Dry Land by Life
  • 4.1 Life and Water
  • 4.2 The Earliest Animals
• 5.0 The Age of Reptiles
  • 5.1 The Age of Lowland Life
  • 5.2 Flying Dragons
  • 5.3 The First Birds
  • 5.4 An Age of Hardship and Death
  • 5.5 The First Appearance of Fur and Feathers
• 6.0 The Age of Mammals
  • 6.1 A New Age of Life
  • 6.2 Tradition Comes Into the World
  • 6.3 An Age of Brain Growth
  • 6.4 The World Grows Hard Again
• 7.0 The Ancestry of Man
  • 7.1 Man Descended From a Walking Ape
  • 7.2 First Traces of Man-like Creatures
  • 7.3 The Heidelberg Sub-Man
  • 7.4 The Piltdown Sub-Man
• 8.0 The Neanderthal Man, an Extinct Race
  • 8.1 The World 50,000 Years Ago
  • 8.2 The Daily Life of the First Men
• 9.0 The Later Postglacial Paleolithic Men, the First True Men
  • 9.1 The Coming of Men Like Ourselves
  • 9.2 Hunters Give Place to Herdsmen
  • 9.3 No Sub-men in America
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