The World before 1000 BCE

Billions of Years -- a scientific theory -- from the earth's beginning to human species

Dinosaurs, Birds, and Survival -- a focus on the Triasic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods

Genes, Ageing and Evolution -- creature biologies

Biology, the Brain and History -- distribution of differences among humans

Origins of War -- beginning with tribal raiding

Origins of Religion -- hunter-gatherers try to understand their world

Population Growth, Harvest Gods and Sacrifices

Sumerians: Class, Power, War and Women

Sumerian Polytheism, Sin and a Great Flood Myth

Sargon the Great's Empire and the Sumerians

Babylonian Myths of Creation and a Great Flood

Hammurabi and the Kassites at Babylon

Diffusions from Mesopotamia to Egypt

Biblical Hebrews in conflict with their Neighbors

Hebrew Ideology before the time of David

Early Agriculture and Herding in Northern Africa

Agriculture and Power Politics along the Nile

Ideology and Myth in Egypt

The Lost Civilization of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa

Aryans Invade, Conquer and Make War in the Indus Valley

Aryans, beginning Hinduism and the Vedas

Shang and Zhou Dynasties and Empire

Religion on the North China Plain

Civilization to Europe and Greece's Dark Age

Migrations into Southeast Asia and Oceania

Agriculture, Sacrifices and Civilization in the Americas