Fernández-Armesto, Felipe

Ideas that changed the world - First American edition - 400 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps

Includes index.

The mind of the hunter : 30,000 -10,000 BC : excavating the earliest ideas Out of the mud : 10,000 - 1,000 BC : from settlement to civilization Thus spake zarathustra : 1,000 BC - 0 AD : the age of sages Thinking religions : 0 - 1400 AD : the rise of the great faiths Back to the future : 1400 - 1800 The illusion of progress : 1800 - 1900 : 19th century frustrations The age of uncertainty : 1900 - 2000 : chaos restored

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Civilization--History
Intellectual life--History
Diffusion of innovations--History

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