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Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?

The Human Web

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    A Paperback / softback by J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 6 February 2004
      ISBN-13 9780393925685
      978-0393925685
      ISBN-10 0393925684
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      Computing Internet guides and online services History General and world history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?

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