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Mesopotamia issue coverNO. 001
Mesopotamia · c. 3500 B.C.

Civilization's Beginning

The Fertile Crescent, the first surplus, and the Sumerians — the world's very first civilization.

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Shang and Zhou issue coverNO. 002
Ancient China · 1650 B.C.

China's Earliest Dynasties

Dynasties like sports dynasties — the Shang, the Zhou, bronze, the first writing, and the Mandate of Heaven.

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Crete and Mycenae issue coverNO. 003
Ancient Greece · 2000 B.C.

Minoans & Mycenaeans

Before there were "Greeks": the island of Crete, Sir Arthur Evans, and the people who became Greece.

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Egypt · No. 004

Gift of the Nile

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