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Author: Melanie Waldron
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1484609638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an introduction to ancient Greece and how the Greek empire changed through time, giving fascinating insights into many different aspects of Greek life through its geography.
Author: Melanie Waldron
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2015-12-21
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1484635523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeography Matters in Ancient Greece looks at how the Greek Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Greek life through its geography. Read about how the hot climate affected the crops that Greeks could grow and the housing and clothing they needed, how the Mycenaeans were able to protect themselves from attackers by using the natural features of their landscape and their natural resources of stone and how its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea helped the Greek Empire in trading and in strengthening their military might.
Author: Melanie Waldron
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1484609646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how studying the geographical area inhabited by the ancient Romans provides clues to how they lived, their farming techniques, and how they traveled from place to place.
Author: Edward Herbert Bunbury
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Melanie Waldron
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2015-12-21
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1484635531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeography Matters in Ancient Rome looks at how the Roman Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Roman life through its geography. Read about how the Romans invented new farming methods such as a harvesting machine called a vallus, how some women in the Roman Empire had more freedom than in other civilizations, even running their husbands' businesses for them when they were away, and how the Empire was strengthened by the fact that the different climates, soils and terrain produced a huge range of goods and resources.
Author: Melanie Waldron
Publisher: Raintree
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1406291307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did the River Nile shape Egyptian life? What is a shaduf and what was it used for? How did the Ancient Egyptians make papyrus paper? Geography Matters in Ancient Egypt looks at how the Egyptian Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Egyptian life through its geography. Read about how the Egyptians made use of desert oases, how they found and used resources such as limestone and granite for building pyramids in desert areas, and how early Egyptian settlers who had decided to build in areas around the River Nile prevented their houses from flooding.
Author: sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (9th bart.)
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 722
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0857739239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West; the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer; Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great; Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, including Columbus' use of ancient sources.
Author: Gessner Harrison
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Colin E. P. Adams
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose. All of the papers presented here show that ancient travel was considerably more widespread than is often assumed.
