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Prehistory, first empires, and the ancient world, from the Stone Age to 900 CE, Markus Hattstein

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Prehistory, first empires, and the ancient world

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Markus Hattstein

Witness to history : a visual chronicle of the world

from the Stone Age to 900 CE

The Stone Age : the beginning of mankind -- The first great civilizations -- Migration of peoples -- The early states of Mesopotamia -- Ancient Egypt -- The Hittites -- Kingdoms on the borders of the Fertile Crescent -- Syria and Palestine -- Judaism -- The Medes and the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids -- The nomads of the Eurasian steppes -- The religions of India, China, and Japan -- India from the beginnings to the invasion of Alexander the Great -- Early China up to the period of the "warring" states -- The ancient world -- The culture of the Greeks and Romans -- Crete and Mycenae; the beginnings of the Greek culture -- Classical Greece from the culture of the polis to the end of independenceThe rise and fall of a world power : from Macedonia to the Diadochoi -- Judea and Arabia before the Romans -- Carthage : world power and rival of Rome -- The Etruscans : the league to the Roman Empire -- Rome : from the beginnings to the end of the republic -- The rule of the generals and the imperial Rome -- From Constantine to the rise of Byzantium -- Christianity -- Armenia and Asia Minor from the Diadochoi to the Romans -- Persia under the Parthians and the Sassanians -- Celts, Slavs, and Germanic tribes -- The great migration of peoples -- The nomad empires of the Eurasian steppes -- Ancient India -- China's first emperors of the Qin and han dynasties -- The first kingdoms in North and Northeast Africa -- Glossary -- For more information -- For further reading -- Index

juvenile