After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Describe the skills and customs developed in Neolithic societies;
- Define civilization and discuss the conditions behind the development of
the first civilizations;
- Analyze how and why cultures developed distinctively in different parts of the Mediterranean regions, and how this shaped
legal, religious, and scientific development;
- Assess the contributions of ancient Egyptian and western Asian civilizations
to the West.
