《人类的故事》是美国作家房龙的英文原著。这部作品内容精彩，深入浅出地将艰深枯燥的学问化作轻松风趣的精神食粮。书中配有稚拙可爱的插图、幽默、亲切、通俗。本书不仅让你感受房龙作品的不朽魅力，又能提高您的英语阅读水平，丰富您的历史、科学、文化知识。

1.THE SETTING OF THE STAGE

2.OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS

3.PREHISTORIC MAN BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS FOR HIMSELF

4.THE EGYPTIANS INVENT THE ART OF WRITING AND THE RECORD OF HISTORY BEGINS

5.THE BEGINNING OF CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE

6.THE RISE AND FALL OF EHYPT

7.MESOPOTAMIA-THE SECOND CENTRE OF EASTERN CIVILISATION

8.THE SUMERIAN NAIL WRITERS,WHOSE CLAY TABLETS TELL US THE STORY OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA,THE GREAT SEMITIC MELTING-POT

9.THE STORY OF MOSES,THE LEADER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE

10.THE PHENICIANS,WHO GAVE US OUR ALPHABET

11.THE INDO-EUROPEAN PERSIANS CONQUER THE SEMITIC AND THE EGYPTIAN WORLD

12.THE PEOPLE OF THE AEGEAN SEA CARRIED THE CIVILISATION OF OLD ASIA INTO THE WILDERNESS OF EUROPE

13.MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE OF THE HELLENES WAS TAKING POSSESSION OF GREECE

14.THE GREEK CITIES THAT WERE REALLY STATES

15.THE GREEKS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO TRY THE DIFFICULT EXPERIMENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT

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Athens no longer shaped the destinies of the land of Greece .But now, as the home of the first great university the city began to influence the minds of intelligent people far beyond the narrow frontiers of Hellas.