Before They Called It America: Volumes I & II — Complete Edition
By Vernon Snell
Length3h 8m
About this audiobook
Before They Called It America: Volumes I & II begins the human story long before America had a name. Through the cinematic lens of Poetic Cinema History, Vernon Snell journeys from Earth, time, early life, and the first humans through fire, language, memory, writing, agriculture, leadership, and the birth of civilization. The journey then expands into roads, cities, rivers, oceans, belief, invention, and the great civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, Ancient China, Greece, Rome, and Africa. Across 36 connected chapters, history becomes one continuous inheritance rather than isolated dates and events. Before nations, borders, constitutions, and modern identities, humanity was already building, questioning, discovering, remembering, and passing knowledge forward. This is the story before the story—the foundations of the world we inherited.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Education and Learning
Length3 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 23, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
21Chapter 19: Paths
2Chapter 1: Earth
22Chapter 20: The Land
3Chapter 2: Time
23Chapter 21: Identity
4Chapter 3: Life
24Chapter 22: Belief
5Chapter 4: Giants of the Ancient World
25Chapter 23: Knowledge
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6Chapter 5: The First Humans
26Chapter 24: Invention
7Chapter 6: Fire
27Chapter 25: Cities
8Chapter 7: Language
28Chapter 26: Rivers
9Chapter 8: Stories
29Chapter 27: Oceans
10Chapter 9: Memory
30Chapter 28: The Sky
11Chapter 10: Writing
31Chapter 29: The First Great Civilizations
12Chapter 11: Communities
32Chapter 30: Mesopotamia
13Chapter 12: Home
33Chapter 31: Egypt
14Chapter 13: Seeds
34Chapter 32: The Indus Valley
15Chapter 14: Exchange
35Chapter 33: Ancient China
16Chapter 15: Order
36Chapter 34: Ancient Greece
17Chapter 16: Leadership
37Chapter 35: Ancient Rome
18Chapter 17: Civilization
38Chapter 36: Africa
19Chapter 18: The Horizon
39Epilogue & Back Matter
20Volume II — The Birth of Civilization
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