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An overview of western civilization hebrews 1800500 bce ca. A brief history, tenth edition, maintains a firm grounding in political history, while covering intellectual history particularly the significance of ideas and contributions to a greater and deeper extent than any other text for the course. The lessons are selfpaced, so you can fit in your study time when it works for your. Throughout the book there are also helpful tools to help you digest the reading including outlines, focus questions, chronologies, numerous maps and boldface key terms with definitions.
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