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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'Don't Know Much About Mythology'
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conversations.value: Don't Know Much About Mythology
  Devereux, Paul. The Sacred Place: The Ancient Origins of Holy and Mystical Sites. New York: Sterling, 2001. Illustrated photographic guide to many of the worldwide sites, both man-made (Stonehenge, Chichén Itzá) and natural (Ayers Rock, Mount Olympus), that significantly figure in world mythology.
  Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a fascinating assessment of history that focuses on geography, disease, and technology, and repudiates many traditional—and often racist—views of the rise of civilizations.
  Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. A beautifully and heavily illustrated introduction to Chinese history; scholarly but very accessible.
  Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. New York: Harcourt, 1987. A classic academic work that traces the movement of spirituality from primitive to modern times.
  Fage, J. D. A History of Africa. New York: Knopf, 1978. A volume in the History of Humanity series, this is highly scholarly (and dated), but offers a sound overview of early African history. Feiler, Bruce. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths. New York: William Morrow, 2002. A search for the legendary figure who is patriarch of three of the world's great faiths.
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conversations.value: Leick, Gwendolyn. Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. An overview of the rise of the first twelve cities in the first civilization. Scholarly but still accessible.
  McNeill, William H. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Books, 1998. A fascinating narrative of the impact of disease on history, including the decimation of Native Americans by Europeans and the transfer of diseases to the Americas through the slave trade.
  Mithen, Steve. After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Told through the eyes of a fictional world traveler, a look at the globe as the last great Ice Age was ending, and that change's impact on human development.
  Morton, W. Scott, and Charlton M. Lewis. China: Its History and Culture (fourth edition). New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005. A concise, accessible overview of China from neolithic times to the present.
  Morton, W. Scott, and J. Kenneth Olenik. Japan: Its History and Culture (fourth edition). New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005. A concise chronology and good overview of Japanese history from earliest known civilizations to the modern era.
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conversations.value: Jesus Christ, 5–6, 29, 42, 113, 169, 216–17, 278, 304. See also Bible; Judeo-Christian religion; Christmas
  Egyptian (see Egyptian myths) explanatory, 10–12, 23–27, 33–34, 40–41, 49 (see also creation myths; explanatory myths)