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CONTENTS BOOK I. THE ANCIENT WORLD CHAPTER PAGE I. PREHISTORIC MAN I. How Man has built up Civilization I II. The Early Stone Age 3 III. The Late Stone Age 5 II. EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION I. Beginnings of a Higher Civilization 10 II. Age of the Pyramids 14 III. Civilization of the Empire 20 III. WESTERN ASIA: BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, THE PERSIANS, AND THE HEBREWS I. Babylonia and Assyria 24 II. The Indo-European Peoples : the Persian Empire 35 III. The Hebrews 40 BOOK II. THE GREEKS IV. THE COMING OF THE GREEKS THEIR EARLY ACHIEVEMENTS I. The ^Egean Civilization 48 II. The Coming of the Greeks 54 III. Beginnings of Higher Culture among the Greeks 57 IV. Greek Colonies and Business 62 V. Reforms of Solon and Clisthenes 68 V. THE REPULSE OF PERSIA AND THE RISE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE I. The Repulse of the Persians . 70 II. The Rise of the Athenian Empire 75 VI. ATHENS IN THE AGE- OF PERICLES I. Houses, Education, and Science 78 II. Art and Literature 81 III. Fall of the Athenian Empire 86 v