| 1.1 | Carneiro’s scalogram | 14 |
| 2.1 | The lucky latitudes | 29 |
| 2.2 | The early expansion of the West, 9000–4000 BCE | 31 |
| 2.3 | The early expansion of the East, 6000–1500 BCE | 33 |
| 2.4 | The shifting locations of the Eastern and Western cores | 35 |
| 2.5 | Eastern and Western energy capture, 14,000 BCE–2000 CE | 48 |
| 2.6 | Eastern and Western social development scores, 14,000 BCE–2000 CE | 49 |
| 3.1 | Earl Cook’s diagram of energy consumption at different stages of social development | 55 |
| 3.2 | Western energy capture, 14,000 BCE–2000 CE (linear-linear plot) | 62 |
| 3.3 | Western energy capture, 14,000 BCE–2000 CE (log-linear plot) | 62 |
| 3.4 | Western energy capture, 1700–2000 CE | 66 |
| 3.5 | Economic growth and collapse in the first millennia BCE and CE, as documented by shipwrecks and lead pollution | 74 |
| 3.6 | Estimated Western energy capture, 500 BCE–200 CE and 1700–2000 CE | 81 |
| 3.7 | Real wages of unskilled workers, 1300–1800 CE | 86 |
| 3.8 | Western energy capture, 500 BCE–2000 CE | 89 |
| 3.9 | Western energy capture, 14,000 BCE and 500 BCE–2000 CE | 92 |
| 3.10 | Millennium-by-millennium estimates of Western energy capture, 14,000 BCE–2000 CE | 92 |
| 3.11 | House remains from Abu Hureyra, Syria | 95 |
| 3.12 | Temple remains from Eridu, Iraq | 97 |
| 3.13 | Alternative methods for estimating Western energy capture, 14,000– 500 BCE | 103 |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations.
Contributors: Ian Morris - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2013.
Page number: ix.
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