Civilization's Journey

Author: Breasted
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The life on Earth only reached its peak with the emergence of civilized humans. The slow evolution of humans and their eventual attainment of a super status was a gradual process. Each stage of the long evolutionary journey of humans revealed the continuous development of human life. When we look back at history, our emotions are inevitably drawn to the higher civilizations of the future. The book depicts just such a journey of civilization... J.H. Breasted was a history professor who taught in both the United States and Egypt. During his teaching career, he deeply felt the dullness and monotony of traditional history textbooks, so he transformed them. A publishing company published his revised notes in two beautifully bound volumes and gave it a highly captivating title—The Human Adventure. Thus, the world's finest popular history book was born. It is a masterful piece of expository writing that combines the authority of the Germanic with the clarity and fluency of the Gallic. To this day, no work has been able to match it in this regard.