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100 1 _aGrimberg, Carl Gustaf,
_d1875-1941
245 1 0 _aKansojen historia 1
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-30
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPorvoo: WSOY, 1928
653 _aWorld history
700 1 _aPakarinen, Weikko,
_d1884-1930
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77578
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