{"product_id":"2940013469136","title":"ANCIENT MAN THE BEGINNING OF CIVILIZATION","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.    PREHISTORIC MAN\u003cbr\u003eII.   THE WORLD GROWS COLD\u003cbr\u003eIII.  END OF THE STONE AGE\u003cbr\u003eIV.   THE EARLIEST SCHOOL OF THE HUMAN RACE\u003cbr\u003eV.    THE KEY OF STONE\u003cbr\u003eVI.   THE LAND OF THE LIVING AND THE LAND OF THE DEAD\u003cbr\u003eVII.  THE MAKING OF A STATE\u003cbr\u003eVIII. THE RISE AND FALL OF EGYPT\u003cbr\u003eIX.   MESOPOTAMIA--THE COUNTRY BETWEEN THE RIVERS\u003cbr\u003eX.    THE SUMERIAN NAIL WRITERS\u003cbr\u003eXI.   ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA--THE GREAT SEMITIC MELTING-POT\u003cbr\u003eXII.  THE STORY OF MOSES\u003cbr\u003eXIII. JERUSALEM--THE CITY OF THE LAW\u003cbr\u003eXIV.  DAMASCUS--THE CITY OF TRADE\u003cbr\u003eXV.   THE PHOENICIANS WHO SAILED BEYOND THE HORIZON\u003cbr\u003eXVI.  THE ALPHABET FOLLOWS THE TRADE\u003cbr\u003eXVII. THE END OF THE ANCIENT WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREHISTORIC MAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt took Columbus more than four weeks to sail from Spain to the West\u003cbr\u003eIndian Islands. We on the other hand cross the ocean in sixteen hours in\u003cbr\u003ea flying machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive hundred years ago, three or four years were necessary to copy a\u003cbr\u003ebook by hand. We possess linotype machines and rotary presses and we can\u003cbr\u003eprint a new book in a couple of days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe understand a great deal about anatomy and chemistry and mineralogy\u003cbr\u003eand we are familiar with a thousand different branches of science of\u003cbr\u003ewhich the very name was unknown to the people of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one respect, however, we are quite as ignorant as the most primitive\u003cbr\u003eof men--we do not know where we came from. We do not know how or why or\u003cbr\u003ewhen the human race began its career upon this Earth. With a million\u003cbr\u003efacts at our disposal we are still obliged to follow the example of the\u003cbr\u003efairy-stories and begin in the old way:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"Once upon a time there was a man.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis man lived hundreds of thousands of years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat did he look like?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe do not know. We never saw his picture. Deep in the clay of an ancient\u003cbr\u003esoil we have sometimes found a few pieces of his skeleton. They were\u003cbr\u003ehidden amidst masses of bones of animals that have long since\u003cbr\u003edisappeared from the face of the earth. We have taken these bones and\u003cbr\u003ethey allow us to reconstruct the strange creature who happens to be\u003cbr\u003eour ancestor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great-great-grandfather of the human race was a very ugly and\u003cbr\u003eunattractive mammal. He was quite small. The heat of the sun and the\u003cbr\u003ebiting wind of the cold winter had colored his skin a dark brown. His\u003cbr\u003ehead and most of his body were covered with long hair. He had very thin\u003cbr\u003ebut strong fingers which made his hands look like those of a monkey. His\u003cbr\u003eforehead was low and his jaw was like the jaw of a wild animal which\u003cbr\u003euses its teeth both as fork and knife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: PREHISTORIC MAN.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe wore no clothes. He had seen no fire except the flames of the\u003cbr\u003erumbling volcanoes which filled the earth with their smoke and\u003cbr\u003etheir lava.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe lived in the damp blackness of vast forests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he felt the pangs of hunger he ate raw leaves and the roots of\u003cbr\u003eplants or he stole the eggs from the nest of an angry bird.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce in a while, after a long and patient chase, he managed to catch a\u003cbr\u003esparrow or a small wild dog or perhaps a rabbit These he would eat raw,\u003cbr\u003efor prehistoric man did not know that food could be cooked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis teeth were large and looked like the teeth of many of our own\u003cbr\u003eanimals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the hours of day this primitive human being went about in search\u003cbr\u003eof food for himself and his wife and his young.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt night, frightened by the noise of the beasts, who were in search of\u003cbr\u003eprey, he would creep into a hollow tree or he would hide himself behind\u003cbr\u003ea few big boulders, covered with moss and great, big spiders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn summer he was exposed to the scorching rays of the sun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the winter he froze with cold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he hurt himself (and hunting animals are for ever breaking their\u003cbr\u003ebones or spraining their ankles) he had no one to take care of him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had learned how to make certain sounds to warn his fellow-beings\u003cbr\u003ewhenever danger threatened. In this he resembled a dog who barks when a\u003cbr\u003estranger approaches. In many other respects he was far less attractive\u003cbr\u003ethan a well-bred house pet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAltogether, early man was a miserable creature who lived in a world of\u003cbr\u003efright and hunger, who was surrounded by a thousand enemies and who was\u003cbr\u003efor ever haunted by the vision of friends and relatives who had been\u003cbr\u003eeaten up by wolves and bears and the terrible sabre-toothed tiger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the earliest history of this man we know nothing. He had no tools and\u003cbr\u003ehe built no homes. He lived and died and left no traces of his\u003cbr\u003eexistence. We keep track of him through his bones and they tell us that\u003cbr\u003ehe lived more than two thousand centuries ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rest is darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil we reach the time of the famous Stone Age, when man learned the\u003cbr\u003efirst rudimentary","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145648521456,"sku":"2940013469136","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013469136_p0.jpg?v=1763581737","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013469136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}