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Part One First Things First Beginnings in History, to 500 b.c.e.  Chapter 1—First Peoples: Populating the Planet, to 10,000 b.c.e. Chapter 2—First Farmers: The Revolutions of Agriculture, 10,000 b.c.e.–3000 b.c.e. Chapter 3—First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 b.c.e.–500 b.c.e. Outline: The Big Picture: Turning Points in Early World History I. The Emergence of Humankind A. Most scholars in the post-Darwinian world regard human beginnings in the context of biological change. 1. archeologists and anthropologists believe that the lines of descent leading to Homo s