Western Civilization
Subtitle: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Volume 1, To 1700
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Published: March 27, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780072565676
First sentence: What historians call civilization arose some five to six thousand years ago out of small agricultural villages in the river valleys of the ancient Near East, first in Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and shortly thereafter in Egypt around the Nile.