Volume I of Will Durant's The Story of Civilization — covering the civilizations of Egypt, the Near East, India, and China — the first volume of the most ambitious popular history series in American letters.
Opened the Story of Civilization with non-Western civilizations — demonstrating that Western civilization required understanding its Oriental precedents and contemporaries, and making the civilizations of India, China, and the Near East accessible to general American readers.
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