CONTENTS: Preface, 1. Human Evolution, 2. Paleolithic Age, 3. Neolithic Age, 4. The Beginnings of Civilizatioln and Bronze Age Mesopotamia, 5. Early Egyptian Civilization, 6. From Bronze Age to Iron Age: Anatolia and Greece, 7. Archaic and Classical Greece, 8. Ancient Rome (I), 9. Ancient Rome (II), 10. Ancient Rome: Crisis and Decline, 11. The Arabs, Islam, and the Early Abbasid Caliphate, 12. Early Medieval West Asia, 13. Germanic Invasions and After: Origins of Medieval Europe, 14. Feudalism in Medieval Europe, Appendix: Religion in the Roman Empire, Further Readings, Index.