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Billions of Years – 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 in Mesopotamia – 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
Ethnic Diffusions in Mesopotamia – Hittites, Hurrians, Aramaeans and 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
Egypt and Civilization in North Africa – agriculture and herding before climate change and the Berbers
Agriculture and Power Politics along the Nile – authoritarian rule, privilege and war to 2130 BCE
Ideology and Myth in Egypt – myths dominate Egypt and its politics
Succession Problems to Egypt's 12th Dynasty – class hatred, restored order and ideological adjustments
Conquest by Hyksos, Egyptian Expansion, Ramses II and Moses – humiliation and attempts at grandeur
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
Religious transformations from Shang to Zhou – polytheism, human sacrifice and Heaven's favors
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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