The Spoils of Time: From earliest times to the sixteenth centuryThis is a wide-ranging narrative history of the world from the beginning of civilization to the early Renaissance and the Reformation. |
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Introduction | 15 |
Sumeria Malta Egypt the Indus Valley | 27 |
Sargon the Great early codes of law | 35 |
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