G   REECE AND IRAN, 1000–30 B.C.E.

T   HE MEDITERRANEAN AND South West Asia, 2000–500 B.C.E.

Ancient China and the New Civilizations of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200-250 BCE.

The second half of Chapter 1; focusing on the Early River civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Indus.

Chapter 1, Part 1 of Bulliet's The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History