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  • The Peloponnesian War by Kagan, Donald
    Donald Kagan

    The Peloponnesian War

    For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world's most respected classical, political,...
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  • The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today by Davis, James C.
    James C. Davis

    The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today

    "A brisk and cheerfully traditional trip through our history, from homo erectus to George W. Bush." --Kirkus ReviewsIn The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered...
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  • The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations by Collins, Paul
    Paul Collins

    The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations

    The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold...
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  • Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings by DK
    DK

    Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings

    Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities...
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  • The City of Babylon: A History, C. 2000 BC - Ad 116 by Dalley, Stephanie
    Stephanie Dalley

    The City of Babylon

    The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its...
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  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6 by Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6

    Edward Gibbon's classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 box sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers. Easily the most famous historical chronicle in English, Gibbon's account...
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  • The Penguin History of the World by Roberts, J. M.
    J. M. Roberts

    The Penguin History of the World

    The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story...
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  • Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Kriwaczek, Paul
    Paul Kriwaczek

    Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

    Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In...
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  • The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Wickham, Chris
    Chris Wickham

    The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

    "The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK) "A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary Review (UK) A unique and...
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  • Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Matyszak, Philip
    Philip Matyszak

    Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

    The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, for all those that have been recorded, many have been unjustly forgotten. Our history is overflowing with different cultures...
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  • The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Ansary, Tamim
    Tamim Ansary

    The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

    From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine...
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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars...
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  • The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Tuchman, Barbara W.
    Barbara W. Tuchman

    The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma's...
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  • Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization by Arora, Namit
    Namit Arora

    Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization

    What do we really know about the Aryan migration theory and why is that debate so hot? Why did the people of Khajuraho carve erotic scenes on their temple walls? What did the monks at Nalanda eat for dinner? Did our ideals of beauty...
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  • The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages by Vigato, Marco M.
    Marco M. Vigato

    The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages

    Establishes the historical and geological reality of Atlantis and reveals its continuing influence around the world - Traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, as well as the colonies and outposts formed by its survivors in Egypt, Gekli Tepe, India, Mesopotamia,...
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  • The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future by Kelly, Robert L.
    Robert L. Kelly

    The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future

    "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key...
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  • A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Evans, Robert
    Robert Evans

    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

    A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun--or more intoxicating....
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  • Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Finkel, Caroline
    Caroline Finkel

    Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

    The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by...
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  • Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny by Critchlow, Donald T.
    Donald T. Critchlow

    Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny

    Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors--capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they...
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  • A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Hanson, Victor Davis
    Victor Davis Hanson

    A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

    One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most...
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  • Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition by Crane, Nicholas
    Nicholas Crane

    Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition

    Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team...
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  • Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's Most Fascinating Places by DK
    DK

    Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's Most Fascinating Places

    Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. This illustrated history book provides a fascinating insight into the events, movements, and people throughout history who have shaped the cities where we live. Written in a "biography" format, it...
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  • The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Carlin, Dan
    Dan Carlin

    The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    Now a New York Times Bestseller.The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the...
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  • The Decline of the West by Spengler, Oswald
    Oswald Spengler

    The Decline of the West

    Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is...
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  • The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Watts, Edward J.
    Edward J. Watts

    The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years....
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  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Berlin, Isaiah
    Isaiah Berlin

    The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of...
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  • The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 by Ehret, Christopher
    Christopher Ehret

    The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800

    Since its initial publication, The Civilizationsof Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text available on early African history. Addressing the glaring lack of works concentrating on earlier African eras, Christopher Ehret's trailblazing book has been paired with histories of Africa since 1800...
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  • Wars of the Anunnaki: Nuclear Self-Destruction in Ancient Sumer by Hardy, Chris H.
    Chris H. Hardy

    Wars of the Anunnaki: Nuclear Self-Destruction in Ancient Sumer

    Examines the Anunnaki gods' evolving relationships with humanity, their power struggles, and the details of their nuclear war on Earth - Analyzes the crisis and rationale behind the Anunnaki decision to nuke 5 cities in the Jordan plain, resulting in the obliteration of Sumerian...
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  • Islamic Empires: The Cities That Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai by Marozzi, Justin
    Justin Marozzi

    Islamic Empires: The Cities That Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai

    A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities. Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa,...
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  • Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail by Ophuls, William
    William Ophuls

    Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

    *Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward...
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  • The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Cahill, Thomas
    Thomas Cahill

    The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions...
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  • Civilization: The West and the Rest by Ferguson, Niall
    Niall Ferguson

    Civilization: The West and the Rest

    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist "Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase." --Wall Street Journal "[W]ritten with vitality...
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  • America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Hancock, Graham
    Graham Hancock

    America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

    The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on...
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  • A Little History of Science by Bynum, William
    William Bynum

    A Little History of Science

    A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been...
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  • Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by Jackson, John G.
    John G. Jackson

    Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization

    2017 Reprint of 1939 Edition. This essay is an effort to highlight the influence of Ethiopia in the history of Civilization. It also devotes consider time to suggesting that Ethiopia's contribution has been either misunderstood or intentionally ignored by mainstream historians and scholars. Jackson...
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  • Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age by Pye, Michael
    Michael Pye

    Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age

    A revelatory history of Antwerp--from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury--by the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of the World. Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the...
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  • The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Bauer, Susan Wise
    Susan Wise Bauer

    The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

    This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer...
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  • Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Ovenden, Richard
    Richard Ovenden

    Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

    A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year "Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely."--Philip Pullman "If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and...
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  • The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization by Herman, Arthur
    Arthur Herman

    The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

    The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture--and how their rivalry shaped the essential...
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  • Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Hancock, Graham
    Graham Hancock

    Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

    What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found--until now. Graham Hancock is featured in Ancient Apocalypse, a Netflix original...
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  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 3 (of Six): Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper by Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 3 (of Six): Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper

    The first three volumes of the most famous historical chronicle in English, in hardcover in a gorgeously illustrated box set, with an introduction by renowned scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper. Edward Gibbon's account of Roman decline remains a remarkably fresh and vital contribution to the subject...
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  • The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization by Scheidler, Fabian
    Fabian Scheidler

    The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization

    "A must read for everyone rising against the system that is destroying life on earth and our future." Vandana Shiva, World Future CouncilThe End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future...
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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh: Two Texts: An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic-A Fragment of the Gilgamesh Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneif by Clay, Albert T.
    Albert T. Clay

    The Epic of Gilgamesh: Two Texts: An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic-A Fragment of the Gilgamesh Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneif

    "The Gilgamesh Epic is the most notable literary product of Babylonia as yet discovered in the mounds of Mesopotamia."The Gilgamesh Epic recount the exploits and adventures of a favorite hero and become the medium of illustrating aspects of life and the destiny of mankind....
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  • How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Woods, Thomas E.
    Thomas E. Woods

    How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

    Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. In the new...
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  • Introduction to African Civilizations by Jackson, John G.
    John G. Jackson

    Introduction to African Civilizations

    Timely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches to the history of Africa from early African civilizations to Africa's significance in world history. With brilliantly...
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  • Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by Goetzmann, William N.
    William N. Goetzmann

    Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible

    "[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and...
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  • Story of Philosophy by Durant, Will
    Will Durant

    Story of Philosophy

    This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey--is "a delight" (The New York Times) and remains one of the most important books...
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  • Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer Civilizat by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer Civilizat

    Explore the Captivating History of the SumeriansThe sheer importance of Sumerian culture in regards to world culture as a whole is impossible to overstate. This civilization is single-handedly responsible for some of the most major innovations in nearly every field relevant to maintaining a...
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  • The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Diamond, Jared M.
    Jared M. Diamond

    The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

    "Wonderful....Jared Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a naturalist's eye and a philosopher's cunning." --Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the SensesIn this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared...
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  • Mesoamerican History: A Captivating Guide to Four Ancient Civilizations that Existed in Mexico - The Olmec, Zapotec, Maya and Aztec Civiliza by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Mesoamerican History: A Captivating Guide to Four Ancient Civilizations that Existed in Mexico - The Olmec, Zapotec, Maya and Aztec Civiliza

    If you want to discover the captivating history of Mesoamerica, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Olmecs: A Captivating Guide to the Earliest Known Major Ancient Civilization in Mexico Zapotec Civilization: A Captivating Guide to the Pre-Columbian Cloud People Who Dominated the...
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