Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Salt and Early Civilization
Evidence from China suggests that people were making salt at least 4,000 years ago. Before salted fries came out of drive-through windows, before salty pretzels sat on the shelves of every grocery store, before there was a saltshaker on every ... [... more]
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Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study
 Book Description: Arising independently in various parts of the world, early civilizations the first class-based societies in human history are of importance to social scientists interested in the development of complexity. This book offers the first [... more]
$73.00
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Roses -- A Colorful History
Ever since the Egyptians reportedly filled Cleopatra's room knee-deep with rose petals before Marc Antony's arrival, the significance of the rose has ranged from love to political allegiance. The art of the early civilizations of Babylon and ... [... more]
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How to Research Aztec City Building
Aztec cities are renowned for their beautiful architecture, technical sophistication and huge proportions. For centuries scholars have been gathering information on exactly how a relatively early civilization like the Aztecs built such ... [... more]
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Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy
Erudite, informative, challenging, scholarly essays: Egypt vs. Greece And The American Academy: The Debate Over The Birth Of Civilization collaboratively edited by Molefi Asante (Professor of African American Studies, Temple University) and Ama Mazama ( [... more]
$14.95
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The Lost Civilization of Lemuria: The Rise and Fall of ...
Good, but with a warped view of Lemuria: This book provides excellent archaeological evidence that Lemuria exsited. However, I agree with Robert Muniz's review. I too found it odd that the author made "continued emphasis on caucasians as the central [... more]
$20.00
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Voyages of the Pyramid Builders
Pardon this interuption: After reading the reviews for this book, I just had to interject this bit of advice: If the idea of communication between, or common origins of, pyramid building civilisations turns you on, then by all means buy a used copy of [... more]
$16.95
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Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, Vol.1)
ONE OF THE BEST OF THE BEST: In this first volume of the history of civilization, Dr. Durant starts at our beginning. Most of us in the West have little idea of the impact the East had upon or civilization. This work changes that and through his [... more]
$17.98
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War and Peace in the Ancient World (Ancient World: ...
Book Description: This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. Nineteen distinguished scholars, all of whom are experts in their fields, discuss different aspects of this fascinating subject in relation [... more]
$42.95
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations
A very thorough piece of work: I bought four atlases from Penguin recently. This one, New Penguin Altas of Ancient History (McEvedy), N.Pen. Atlas of Medieval His. (McEvedy), and The Pen. Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Scarre). They are all thin and [... more]
$20.00
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Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia (Archaeology of ...
A good overview of mainland history: The monograph by Dougald O'Reilly seems to be a nice contribution to historiography of Early Southeast Asia. It gives a vast picture of early historical developments of the region. It includes a reconsideration of [... more]
$36.95
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Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study
Book Description: Arising independently in various parts of the world, early civilizations the first class-based societies in human history are of importance to social scientists interested in the development of complexity. This book offers the first [... more]
$34.99
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