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Billions of Years – from the earth's beginning to human species
Dinosaurs, Birds, and Change – a focus on the Triasic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
Genes, Aging and Evolution – creature biologies
Biology, the Brain and History – distribution of differences among humans
Origins of War – beginning with tribal raiding
Primal Religion – hunter-gatherers try to understand their world
Inequality – Relations between men and women and the rise of property
Population Growth, Harvest Gods and Sacrifices – agriculture, animal and human sacrifice
Civilization in Mesopotamia – Sumerians, a flood, Sargon, Hammurabi, Babylon, Hittites, Asyrians and Kassites
Egypt and Civilization in North Africa – Berbers, authoritarianism, myth, upheaval, Hyksos, Egyptian expansion, Ramses II
Biblical Hebrews, from Abraham to David – Biblical stories, archeology and theories of historical reality
Civilization in the Indus Valley – Mohenjo-daro, squatters, invasions, war, Hinduism and the Vedas
Civilization on the North China Plain – Shang Dynastry to the Zhou Dynasty
Civilization to Europe – agriculture, the Mycenae Greeks, Minoans, and a Dark Age
Migrations into SE Asia and Oceania – to Australia, the Austronesians, Micronesia, Melanesia, Tonga and Samoa
Agriculture and Sacrifices in the Americas – north of the Rio Grande, Tehuacán Valley, the Olmecs, South America
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