Origin of Civilized Societies / / Rushton Coulborn.
The receding of the ice in the last Pleistocene Ice Age, the resulting dessication, and the emigration of peoples into river valleys and other places where control of water required new forms of civilization are here seen as the chief causes of the origin of the seven primary societies-Egyptian, Mes...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1959 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Note to the Paperback Edition, 1969
- Contents
- 1. Civilized Man and His History
- 2. Mesolithic and Early Agricultural Societies
- 3. The River Valleys
- 4. Middle America and Crete
- 5. The New Religions
- 6. Conclusion: The Meaning of the Advent of Civilized Societies
- Index