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About the Cover

Fish Market, Ivory Coast, West Africa

The Ivory Coast, with over 500 miles of shoreline on  the Atlantic Ocean, is blessed with abundant marine life.  This local wealth supports coastal fishing, most of which is done on a small scale, using lines or nets from canoes.  Foreign trawlers are also attracted to these same fishing grounds and can exploit this resource far more intensively than the local people.  Nonetheless, fishing remains an important livelihood for many people in the Ivory Coast.  Freshly caught tuna, sardines, and hake are sold throughout the country, in markets such as the one shown here in the region of Man. 

PART I. THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION.

1. Birth of Civilization.

Early Humans and Their Culture

The Paleolithic Age

The Neolithic Age

The Bronze Age and the Birth of Civilization

Early Civilizations to about 1000 B.C.E.

Mesopotamian Civilization

Egyptian Civilization    

Ancient Near Eastern Empires

The Hittites

The Mitannians

The Assyrians

The Second Assyrian Empire

The Neo-Babylonians

Early Indian Civilization

The Indus Civilization

The Vedic Aryan Civilization

Early Chinese Civilization

Neolithic Origins in the Yellow River Valley

Early Bronze