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PART I. THE EARLIEST EUROPEANS
	I. EARLY MANKIND IN EUROPE § 1. Earliest Man's Ignorance and Progress § 2. The Early Stone Age § 3. The Middle Stone Age § 4. The Late Stone Age				1 5 9 14
PART II. THE ORIENT
	II. THE STORY OF EGYPT: THE EARLIEST NILE-DWELLERS AND THE PYRAMID AGE § 5. Egypt and its Earliest Inhabitants § 6. The Pyramid Age (about 3000 to 2500 B.C.) § 7. Art and Architecture in the Pyramid Age			35 49 68

	III. THE STORY OF EGYPT: THE FEUDAL AGE AND THE EMPIRE § 8. The Nile Voyage and the Feudal Age § 9. The Founding of the Empire § 10. The Higher Life of the Empire § 11. The Decline and Fall of the Egyptian Empire § 12. The Decipherment of Egyptian Writing by Champollion					74 80 86 93 97

	IV. WESTERN ASIA: BABYLONIA § 13. The Lands and Races of Western Asia § 14. Rise of Sumerian Civilization and Early Struggle of Sumerian and Semite § 15. The First Semitic Triumph: the Age of Sargon § 16. Union of Sumerians and Semites: the Kings of Sumer and Akkad § 17. The Second Semitic Triumph: the Age of Hammurapi and After	100 107 122 126 128

	V. THE ASSYRIANS AND CHALDEANS § 18. Early Assyria and her Rivals § 19. The Assyrian Empire (about 750 to 6o6 B.C.) § 20. The Chaldean Empire: the Last Semitic Empire		140 151 164