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Education : the first schools -- Schooldays : the first case of "apple-polishing" -- Father and son : the first case of juvenile delinquency -- International affairs : the first "war of nerves" -- Government : the first bicameral congress -- Civil war in Sumer : the first historian -- Social reform : the first case of tax reduction -- Law codes : the first "Moses" -- Justice : the first legal precedent -- Medicine : the first pharmacopoeia -- Agriculture : the first "farmer's almanac" -- Horticulture : the first experiment in shade-tree gardening -- Philosophy : man's first cosmogony and cosmology -- Ethics : the first moral ideals -- Suffering and submission : the first "Job" -- Wisdom : the first proverbs and sayings -- "Aesopica" : the first animal fables -- Logomachy : the first literary debates -- Paradise : the first biblical parallels -- A flood : the first "Noah" -- Hades : the first tale of resurrection -- Slaying of the dragon : the first "St. George" -- Tales of Gilgamesh : the first case of literary borrowing -- Epic literature : man's first heroic age -- To the royal bridegroom : the first love song -- Book lists : the first library catalogue -- World peace and harmony : man's first golden age -- Ancient counterparts of modern woes : the first "sick" society -- Destruction and deliverance : the first liturgic laments -- The ideal king : the first messiahs -- Shulgi of Ur : the first long-distance champion -- Poetry : the first literary imagery -- The sacred marriage rite : the first sex symbolism -- Weeping goddesses : the first Mater Dolorosa -- U-a a-u-a : the first lullaby -- The ideal mother : her first literary portrait -- Three funeral chants : the first elegies -- The pickaxe and the plow : labor's first victory -- Home of the fish : the first aquarium.
