The last two million years : Reader's Digest history of man / Reader's Digest Association (Great Britain).

Contents: Countdown to civilization : how man evolved and peopled the globe in prehistoric times. The inhabited planet ; The Stone Age ; The first farmers ; The coming of metal -- The great civilizations : the achievement of man since the beginning of recorded history. Mesopotamia ; Ancient Egypt ; Persia ; Phoenicians and Hebrews ; Minoans and Mycenaeans ; Ancient Greece ; The Etruscans ; Ancient Rome ; Byzantium ; Russia ; Saxons, Celts and Vikings ; Islam ; India ; China ; Japan ; Maya and Aztecs ; The Incas ; Tropical Africa ; Western civilization ; Calendar of the great civilizations -- Man and his world : ideas and discoveries that have changed the course of history. The quest for truth ; Secrets of the universe ; Writing and counting ; Man the inventor ; Man under the microscope ; Exploring the world ; Man the warrior -- The nations of the world : an A-Z historical gazetteer. The world today ; Gazetteer.