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eYeWitness companions World History philip parker Civilizations • events • ideas great lives • disCoveries EYEWITNESS COMPANIONS PHILIP PARKER ““TTTTTHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOSSSSSEEEEE WWWWWWHHHHHHOOOOOOO CCCCCCAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT RRRRREEEEEEMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMBBBBBEEEEEEEEEERRRRR TTTTHHHHHHHHEEEEE PPPPPPPPPAAAAAASSSSSSTTTTTTTTTT AAAAAAAARRRRRRRREEEEE CCCCCOOOOOOOOONNNNNNDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDD TTTTTOOOOOOOOO RRRRRRRRREEEEEEPPPPPPPEEEEEEAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT IIIIITTTTTT...”” GGGeeeeeoooorrrrgggggeeeee SSSSSaaaaannntttaaayyyyyaaaaannnnnnaaaaaaa,,,,, 222000tthhhh-----ccceeennnnnttttuuurrrryyyyy pppppphhhhhiiiilllllooooosssssooooooppppphhhheeeerrrr ““TTTTTTTHHHHHIIIIIINNNNNNKKKK OOOOOFF TTTTTOOOOOMMMMOOORRRRRRRRRROOOOOWWW, TTTHHHHEEEE PPPPAAAASSSSSTTTTTT CCCAAAANNNNN’’TTTT BBBBBEEEEE MMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNDDDDDDEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD...””” CCCCCooooonnffuucciiuuuussss,,, AAAAnnnaalllleeeeeccttttssss,,, 66tthhh cceennntttuuurrryy BCE LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE, DELHI Managing Editor Camilla Hallinan Managing Art Editor Karen Self Project Editor Sam Atkinson Project Art Editor Anna Hall Cartographers Simon Mumford, PaulEames Production Controller Imogen Boase Production Editor Luca FFFrassinetti Art Director Bryn Walls Publisher Jonathan Metcalf Associate Publisher Liz Wheeler Produced for Dorling Kindersley by Foreword 10 TheStables, Wood FFFarm, Deopham RRRoad, 12 Attleborough, Norfolk NR17 1AAAJ WHAT IS www.cobaltid.co.uk HISTORY? Editors Marek Walisiewicz, Kati Dye, Louise Abbott, Judy Barrett, RRRobin Sampson 26 TIMELINES OF Art Editors PaulRRReid, Darren Bland, WORLDHISTORY Claire Dale,Lloyd Tilbury, Annika Skoog 56 First published in 2010 by THE Dorling Kindersley Limited 80Strand, London WC2R 0RL PREHISTORIC AA Penguin Company WWWORLDto 3000 bce 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Copyright © 2010Dorling Kindersley Limited. Human Ancestors 60 The EarliestHumans 64 All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any Early Societies 72 form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. 80 ACIP catalogue record for this book is available from THEANCIENT the BritishLibrary. WORLD ISBN 978-1-4053-4124-0 3000–700 bce Colour reproduction by Media Development Printing Limited. Printed and bound in China by The NearEast 84 Leo Paper ProductsLimited. Egypt 92 See our complete catalogue at Europe 100 www.dk.com South Asia 102 East Asia 104 key to symbols used in this book n Country of origin d Date of origin The Americas 106