02343cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000060010610000380011224500240015026400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032450000310036050800450039152014330043653400460186965300180191570000340193385600430196799900190201077578UtSlPG20260610134810.0mcr n260607r20251928utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aD1 aGrimberg, Carl Gustaf,d1875-194110aKansojen historia 1 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-12-30  aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen  a"Kansojen historia 1" by Carl Gustaf Grimberg is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It traces the dawn of civilization from human prehistory to the earliest Near Eastern cultures, especially Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and Phoenicia. Drawing on archaeology and cultural history, it explains how environment, technology, religion, and social organization shaped early societies.

The opening of the volume begins with a preface in which the author sets out his aim to write a widely accessible world history grounded in site visits and expert review. It then surveys human origins, assessing major fossil finds (Neanderthals, Aurignacians, and the debated Java and Piltdown remains), urging scientific caution and concluding that no definitive “missing link” has been found. From there it highlights fire as the first decisive cultural tool, notes the role of metals, and widens the cradle-of-civilization discussion beyond Egypt and Babylonia by citing shared Neolithic ceramics from China across western Eurasia. The narrative finally turns to Egypt: the Nile’s life-giving floods, irrigation and state coordination, the country’s striking landscapes, and beliefs about death—mummification practices, scarab amulets, moral judgment before Osiris, and the function of the Book of the Dead—illustrated with moral ideals quoted from tomb inscriptions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cPorvoo: WSOY, 1928  aWorld history1 aPakarinen, Weikko,d1884-193040uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77578  c118298d118298