HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON.

 

CONTENTS

 

1. THE SETTING OF THE STAGE

 

2. OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS

 

3. PREHISTORIC MAX BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS FOR HIMSELF

 

4. THE EGYPTIANS INVENT THE ART OF WRITING AND THE RECORD

 

OF HISTORY BEGINS

 

5. THE BEGINNING OF CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE

 

6. THE RISE AND FALL OF EGYPT

 

7. MESOPOTAMIA, THE SECOND CENTRE OF EASTERN CIVILISATION

 

8. THE SUMERIAN NAIL WRITERS, WHOSE CLAY TABLETS TELL US

 

THE STORY OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA, THE GREAT SEMITIC

 

MELTING-POT