Ancient civilizations /
Traces and details the efforts of the earliest of peoples including the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, Celts, and others.
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| Language: | English |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Greenhaven Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | World history by era ;
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Table of Contents:
- In the mists of time: humanity before cities and writing: Humans in the Stone Age; a fight for survival / Chester G. Starr
- Life among the hunter-gatherers / John Haywood
- Emergence of agriculture and raising livestock / William H. McNeill
- Great river civilizations: Sumerians establish the world's first true cities / Michael Wood
- Egypt acquires unity and national government / H.W.F. Saggs
- Mysterious people of the Indus Valley / A.L. Basham
- Rise of Assyria and Babylonia / George Roux
- Eyewitness to mighty ancient Babylon / Herodotus
- China's first dynasties / L. Carrington Goodrich
- Mesopotamia; cradle of human culture?: When and where was the great flood? / Peter James and Nick Thorpe
- Invention of writing / Wolfram von Snoden
- Sumerians create the world's first literature / Jacquetta Hawkes
- Gilgamesh; the earliest hero / Traditional
- World's first empire / Jean Bottero
- Assyria's magnificent relief sculptures / Seton Lloyd
- Egypt; land of Pharaohs and pyramids: Majestic Nile sustains and regulates life
- Preparation for the afterlife / Nicolas Grimal
- Building the great pyramids / Desmond Stewart
- New kingdom and Egypt's age of empire / Charles Freeman
- King Tut; rediscovering an Egyptian ruler / Bob Brier
- Early Mediterranean and European peoples: Minoans and Mycenaeans; the early Greeks / Thomas R. Martin
- Hardy Celts spread across Europe / Peter B. Ellis
- One God: the emergenceof the Hebrews and monotheism / Max I. Dimont
- First kingdom of Israel / Roberta L. Harris
- Phoenicians: pioneering traders of the Mediterranean / Maitland A. Edey
- Italy's mysterious, splendid Etruscans / Paul MacKendrick
- Founding of Rome, the eternal city / Arthur E.R. Boak and William G. Sinnigen
- Early Greek culture: the birth of the west : people and life in Minoan Crete / Rodney Castleden
- Myth reflects real early Greek politics / Plutarch
- Poet: Homer establishes Western literature / Michael Grant
- Death of a hero: Achille slays Hector / Homer
- Archaic Greece: a people on the verge of greatness / Don Nardo.