Ancient Civilization an Introduction to Modern History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Wolfson, Arthur Mayer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330005295 ISBN 13: 9781330005293

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Ancient Civilization an Introduction to Modern History

Ask yourself as you begin reading this book what is the first thing in life that-you can remember. Probably the event hap pened not more than ten or twelve years ago. Your The sources father and mother cannot go back, in memory more than of our three or four times as many years as that; and practically knowledge no man or woman alive to - day can recall things that happened a hundred years ago. And yet, at the very beginning of this book, you must imagine that your memory extends ov'er thou sands and thousands of years, for the beginning of man's history belongs to a time as long ago as that.

Our knowledge of the story of man's existence on earth has been gathered slowly. Here and there in all parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, a few bones of men and of animals, a few spearheads and arrowheads, a few fragments of clothing and cooking utensils have been found. From these, and from the rude pictures which men scratched on stones thousands of years ago, we have been able to piece together a record which carries back the story of man's life those thousands of years; We have learned something about his. Method of making himself shelter and clothing, something about the way he fought with the wild animals of the forest, something, about the way he gathered his food and fed and reared his children. We know the steps by which, from a condition like that'of a wild animal, he climbed up to the place which he occupies on earth to-day'.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330005295
• ISBN 13: 9781330005293
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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