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- Chapter I: Tracing Early Humanity - Chapter II: The Transition From Hunting And Cathering To Farming - Chapter III: The Rise "Of The First Urban civilization : Summer in southern Mesopotamia - Chapter IV: Summerian Culutre through the early dynastic period - Chapter V: New powers and peoples in southern mesopotamia : Agade , UR, Babylon - Chapter VI: Life And Death Along The Nile : Egypt Through the old kingdom - Chapter VII: Egypt in the middle and new kingdoms - Chapter VIII: The Hittites OOF Anatolia And Their Neighbors - Chapter IX: The phoenicians and other early semitic speakers of Syria - Palestine - Chapter XI: the religion - centered herbew culture - Chapter XII: Great powers of western asia: assyria chaldean babylonia , lydia - Chapter XIII: persia - Chapter XIV: persian cultural achievements

Written for the student of history and the general reader, this study of the civilization of the ancient Near East brings together the findings of historians, anthropologists, linguists, geographers, art historians, scientists, and other specialists. It begins with an examination of prehistory, and then focuses on social and cultural themes while broadly outlining Near Eastern political and military developments.