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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, Aging 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 -- agriculture, animal and human sacrifices
The Sumerians -- class, power, women, polytheism, sin and myth of a great flood
Sargon's Empire and the Sumerians -- rise and fall of Sargon's empire
Babylonian Myths of Creation and a Great Flood -- the retelling of Sumerian stories
Hammurabi and the Kassites at Babylon -- Babylon, from Hammurabi to the Kassites
Diffusions from Mesopotamia to Egypt -- Hyksos, Hittites, Hurrians, Aramaeans, medicine
Biblical Hebrews in conflict with their Neighbors -- wars to King David
Hebrew Ideology before the time of David -- Abraham; Moses and the Ten Commandments
Early Agriculture and Herding in Northern Africa -- then climate change, the Berbers and others
Agriculture and Power Politics along the Nile -- authoritarian rule, privilege and war to 1750 BCE
Ideology and Myth in Egypt -- myths dominate Egypt and its politics
The Lost Civilization of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa -- to the squatter period and squatter disappearance
Aryans Invade, Conquer and Make War in the Indus Valley -- waves of pastoralists into the Indus Valley
Aryans, beginning Hinduism and the Vedas -- Hinduism's origins and oral history
Shang and Zhou Dynasties and Empire -- political power from Shang to Zhou emperors
Religion on the North China Plain -- polytheism, human sacrifice, to the Zhou emperors
Civilization to Europe and Greece's Dark Age -- agriculture, the Mycenae Greeks to a Dark Age." />
Migrations into Southeast Asia and Oceania -- Mons, Malays, Micronesians, Polynesians and Australians
Agriculture, Sacrifices and Civilization in the Americas -- Tehuacan Valley, Olmecs, and north of the Rio Grande
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