Priests and Kings
Harold PeakePaperback 2003-02-01
Publisher Description
This volume sketches the phase of evolution wherein cultivation leaders to permanent settlement, which leads to intercourse and trade, villages may grow into cities and written records are then kept; kings and high priests become prominent figures of civilization. Contents: discovery of metal; systems of chronology; Sumer and Akkad; old kingdom of Egypt; early Minoan times; Aegean world; North Kurgan at Anau; peasants of the Danube Basin; valley of the Alt; Black Earth Lands; chronological summary; races of the world.
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Publisher Description
This volume sketches the phase of evolution wherein cultivation leaders to permanent settlement, which leads to intercourse and trade, villages may grow into cities and written records are then kept; kings and high priests become prominent figures of civilization. Contents: discovery of metal; systems of chronology; Sumer and Akkad; old kingdom of Egypt; early Minoan times; Aegean world; North Kurgan at Anau; peasants of the Danube Basin; valley of the Alt; Black Earth Lands; chronological summary; races of the world.