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Author: Arthur Cotterell
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis survey of the age that laid the foundations of modern Europe and Asia takes a global multicultural approach to the ancient world by including Asian, African, and South Asian societies as well as Athens and Rome.
Author: Arthur Cotterell
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Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780670825950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Cotterell
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780140513448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis survey of the age that laid the foundations of modern Europe and Asia takes a global multicultural approach to the ancient world by including Asian, African, and South Asian societies as well as Athens and Rome.
Author: Arthur Cotterell
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 1446466728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original and unique work of reference which breaks new ground by treating for the first time the classical era of the Old World as a whole. Never before have the key peoples and events of Greece, Rome, Persia, India, and China been encompassed in a single volume, despite the fact their civilizations had much in common and laid the foundations of present-day Europe and Asia. Arthur Cotterell asserts that for too long Greece and Rome have been regarded as the classical world and its study isolated from even the major powers that confronted the Greeks and Romans in Iran and India. Today we are more aware of the complex interrelations that once existed between the Greeks and the Persians, the Macedonians and the Indians, the Romans and both the Persians and the Sasanians. The persistent isolation of China, on the other hand, cut off by mountains and deserts from India, makes the classical experience there so useful for comparison and contrast. The virtual absence of slavery in China is but one of its startling features. Comprehensive, wide-ranging and lavishly illustrated, The Pimlico Dictionary of Classical Civilizations provides a fascinating overview and a detailed analyis of the formative period of the world, making it indispensible for both students and the general reader.
Author: Ed. Cotterell
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 367
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Cotterell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1787383474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society we know today. The Sumerians inaugurated civilisation itself, but it was the Babylonians and then the Assyrians who fulfilled its potential. Their early experiments in state formation remain fascinating to us today: just like our governments, for a thousand years Babylon and Assyria grappled with the challenges of organising central power, administering distant territories, and engineering social harmony in empires and their cities. These achievements form one of the momentous episodes in human history; the Mesopotamian invention of writing revolutionised our minds and increased our intellectual possibilities a hundredfold. The First Great Powers is a revelation: of kingship, warfare, society and religion. Here at last we can discover what it meant to be an ancient Mesopotamian living in such an extraordinary world.
Author: Edie Evans
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780439280426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere can students visit an Egyptian pyramid, learn the Sumerian number system, study the ancient Chinese dynasties, and explore the Mayan city of Chichen Itza? The Internet, of course! Armed with reproducible graphic organizers, students go online and hone their research skills to learn about these and other ancient civilizations. Students then use what they've learned to recreate a Mayan calendar, map out Mesopotamia, create a timeline of ancient Greece, and more.
Author: John M. Weeks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-11-25
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1442237406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of the humanities, including archaeology, art history, languages, literature, philosophy, and related cultural disciplines which consider the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean world, and adjacent Egypt and southwestern Asia. Chronologically the ancient world would extend from the beginning of the Bronze Age of ancient Greece (ca. 1000 BCE) to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (ca. 500 CE). This book will close the traditional subject gap between the humanities (Classical World; Egyptology) and the social sciences (anthropological archaeology; Near East) in the study of the ancient world. This book is uniquely the only bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage. The volume consists of 17 chapters and seven appendixes, arranged according to the traditional types of library research materials (bibliographies, dictionaries, atlases, etc.). The appendixes are mostly subject specific, including graduate programs in ancient studies, reports from significant archaeological sites, numismatics, and paleography and writing systems. These extensive author and subject indexes help facilitate ease of use.
Author: Arthur Cotterell
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780756613914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllus. with full-color photos. From the earliest dynasty to the last emperor, watch 3,000 years of splendor come alive in this colorful chronicle of the civilization that's given us everything from gunpowder to dim sum.
Author: Arthur Cotterell
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith contributions from experts in the field, this is an encyclopedia of ancient civilizations.
