The Ancient World
The Ancient World
Editors: Takacs, Sarolta and Cline, Eric H.
Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Single-User Purchase Price:
$275.00
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$412.50
ISBN: 978-0-7656-8082-2
Category: History - History, Ancient
Image Count:
146
Book Status: Available
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This title explores the history and civilizations of the ancient world from prehistory to approximately 1000 C.E. Entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the ancient world in all areas of the globe.
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Table of Contents
- Civilization of Africa
- List of Illustrations
- Topic Finder
- Preface
- The Cradle of Humanity
- Map of Ancient Africa
- Agriculture
- Akhenaten
- Alexandria
- Animism
- Archeological Discoveries
- Art and Architecture
- Atlas Mountains
- Axum
- Bantu Migration
- Benin
- Berbers
- Carthage
- Culture and Traditions
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Giza
- Great Zimbabwe
- Greek Colonies
- Ibn Battuta
- Kongo Empire
- Kush
- Language and Writing
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauretania
- Monomutapa Empire
- Myths and Epics
- Nile River
- Nok People
- Nubia
- Olduvai Gorge
- Paleobiology
- Religion
- Sahara
- Salt Trade
- Sheba, Queen of
- Slavery
- Society
- Songhai Empire
- Stone Circles
- Technology and Inventions
- Timbuktu
- Tools and Weapons
- Yoruba
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Civilizations of Europe
- List of Illustrations
- Topic Finder
- Preface
- Crossroads of Culture
- Map of Ancient Europe
- Agriculture
- Alexander III, the Great (356-323 b.c.e.)
- Archeological Discoveries
- Aristotle (384-322 b.c.e. )
- Art and Architecture
- Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 b.c.e.)
- Cave Paintings
- Celts
- Christianity
- Crete
- Cro-Magnon Peoples
- Culture and Traditions
- Druids
- Etruscan Civilization
- Franks
- Gauls
- Germanic Groups
- Greece
- Huns
- Ice Age
- Justinian I (c.e. 483-565)
- Kievan Rus
- Language and Writing
- Latin
- Minoan Civilization
- Myths, Epics, and Sagas
- Neanderthal Peoples
- Norsemen
- Odoacer (c.e. 435-493)
- Pax Romana (27 b.c.e.-c.e. 180)
- Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.)
- Persian Wars (490-479 b.c.e.)
- Pompeii
- Religion
- Rome
- Slavery
- Society
- Technology and Inventions
- Tools and Weapons
- Trojan War
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Civilizations of the Americas
- List of Illustrations
- Topic Finder
- Preface
- The New World
- Map of Ancient Americas
- Adena
- Agriculture
- Anasazi
- Archeological Discoveries
- Art and Architecture
- Aztec Civilization
- Beringia
- Bison
- Cahokia
- Clovis
- Culture and Traditions
- Great Serpent Mound
- Hohokam
- Hunter-Gatherers
- Ice Age
- Incan Civilization
- Language and Writing
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Machu Picchu
- Maize
- Mammoths
- Mayan Civilization
- Mississippian Cultures
- Mound Builders
- Myths and Legends
- Nazca
- Norton Tradition
- Olmec Civilization
- Paleo-Indians
- Potlatch
- Religion
- Slavery
- Society
- Taino
- Technology and Inventions
- Teotihuacán (ca. 300 b.c.e.-c.e. 700)
- Thule Tradition
- Tiwanaku (200 b.c.e.-c.e. 1000)
- Tobacco
- Toltec Culture
- Tools and Weapons
- Totems
- Vinland
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Civilizations of the Near East and Southwest Asia
- List of Illustrations
- Topic Finder
- Preface
- Birthplace of Modern Civilization
- Map of the Ancient Near East and Southwest Asia
- Agriculture
- Anatolia
- Arameans
- Archeological Discoveries
- Art and Architecture
- Assyria
- Babylonia
- Bible
- Byzantine Empire
- Çatal Huyuk
- Chaldeans
- Christianity
- Culture and Traditions
- Darius I, the Great (549-486 b.c.e)
- Ebla
- Fertile Crescent
- Hammurabi (d. 1750)
- Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
- Hittites
- Indus River
- Islam
- Jerusalem
- Jews and Judaism
- Language and Writing
- Lydians
- Mesopotamia
- Monsoons
- Myths and Epics
- Parthian Empire
- Persia
- Phoenicians
- Religion
- Scythians
- Slavery
- Society
- Sumer
- Technology and Inventions
- Tools and Weapons
- Ur
- Zoroastrianism
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Asia and the Pacific
- List of Illustrations
- Topic Finder
- Preface
- Ancient Asia and the Pacific Basin: More Than the Sum of Its Parts
- Map of Ancient Asia and the Pacific
- Aboriginal Peoples
- Agriculture
- Angkor Wat
- Archeological Discoveries
- Art and Architecture
- Australia
- Buddhism
- China
- Confucianism
- Culture and Traditions
- Golden Horde
- Hinduism
- Huns
- India
- Indian Ocean Trade
- Islam, Spread of
- Japan
- Java
- Khmer Empire
- Korea
- Language and Writing
- Mandate of Heaven
- Melaka
- Micronesia
- Mongols
- Monsoons
- Myths and Epics
- New Zealand
- Pax Sinica
- Polynesia
- Religion
- Shinto
- Silk Road
- Slavery
- Society
- Spice Trade
- Sri Lanka
- Sukhothai and Ayudhya
- Technology and Inventions
- Tools and Weapons
- Vietnam
- Zheng He (ca. c.e. 1371-1433)
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
