History Begins at Sumer: Thirty­-Nine Firsts in Recorded History

History Begins at Sumer
	Contents
	Preface to the First Edition
	List of Illustrations
		Line Drawings
		Halftones
	Photographic Sources
	Introduction
	Chapter 1 Education The First Schools
	Chapter 2 Schooldays The First Case of "Apple-Polishing"
	Chapter 3 Father and Son The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency
	Chapter 4 International Affairs The First "War of Nerves"
	Chapter 5 Government The First Bicameral Congress
	Chapter 6 Civil War in Sumer The First Historian
	Chapter 7 Social Reform The First Case of Tax Reduction
	Chapter 8 Law Codes The First "Moses"
	Chapter 9 Justice The First Legal Precedent
	Chapter 10 Medicine The First Pharmacopoeia
	Chapter 11 Agriculture The First "Farmer's Almanac"
	Chapter 12 Horticulture The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening
	Chapter 13 Philosophy Man's First Cosmogony and Cosmology
	Chapter 14 Ethics The First Moral Ideals
	Chapter 15 Suffering and Submission The First "Job"
	Chapter 16 Wisdom The First Proverbs and Sayings
	Chapter 17 "Aesopica" The First Animal Fables
	Chapter 18 Logomachy The First Literary Debates
	Chapter 19 Paradise The First Biblical Parallels
	Chapter 20 A Flood The First "Noah"
	Chapter 21 Hades The First Tale of Resurrection
	Chapter 22 Slaying of the Dragon The First ''St. George"
	Chapter 23 Tales of Gilgamesh The First Case of Literary Borrowing
	Chapter 24 Epic Literature Man's First Heroic Age
	Chapter 25 To the Royal Bridegroom The First Love Song
	Chapter 26 Book Lists The First Library Catalogue
	Chapter 27 World Peace and Harmony Man's First Golden Age
	Chapter 28 Ancient Counterparts of Modern Woes The First "Sick" Society
	Chapter 29 Destruction and Deliverance The First Liturgic Laments
	Chapter 30 The Ideal King The First Messiahs
	Chapter 31 Shulgi of Ur The First Long-Distance Champion
	Chapter 32 Poetry The First Literary Imagery
	Chapter 33 The Sacred Marriage Rite The First Sex Symbolism
	Chapter 34 Weeping Goddesses The First Mater Dolorosa
	Chapter 35 U-a A-u-a The First Lullaby
	Chapter 36 The Ideal Mother Her First Literary Portrait
	Chapter 37 Three Funeral Chants The First Elegies
	Chapter 38 The Pickaxe and the Plow Labor's First Victory
	Chapter 39 Home of the Fish The First Aquarium
	Corrigenda and Addenda to the Second Edition
	Glossary
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	Appendix A A Curse and a Map: New Gleanings from the Tablets of Sumer
	Appendix B The Origin and Development of the Cuneiform System of Writing and Other Comments on the I...
		The Origin and Development of the Cuneiform System of Writing.
		Comments on the Illustrations