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Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world-from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B. C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A. D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author...
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Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world today. In the face of massive social changes across three continents, radical new forms of government emerged; mighty wars were fought over trade, religion, and ideology; and new faiths were ruthlessly employed to unify vast empires. The histories of Rome and China, Greece and India--the stories...
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A definitive survey of the Olympic games, from 776 B.C. to A.D. 261, this scholarly, yet immensely readable account of Olympic athletes in ancient times takes a highly realistic view of these fabled contests. Transporting readers back to the eighth century b.c., Professor M. I. Finley and Dr. H. W. Pleket draw upon their extensive knowledge of the ancient world to explain in absorbing detail the various sporting events and their historical, social,...
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"In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, 'I see wonderful things.' Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more...
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Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is an account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. It also considers the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America and the Industrial Revolution.
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The Little Book of Big History is an endeavor to encapsulate the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the current day, into an engaging and comprehensive narrative. Combining methods from history, astronomy, physics, and biology to draw together the big story arcs of how the universe was created, why planets formed, and how life developed, the result is a unique perspective of mankind's place in the universe. The Little Book of Big History...
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Six classroom-tested debates are featured in this innovative e-book. Built on primary sources, each debate asks students to step into the shoes of historical characters and argue for a position. As author Joseph T. Stuart says in the Introduction, 'Debates have proven to be among the most successful tools in my experience as an instructor to encourage students to work with primary sources.' The e-book includes 3 debates from the pre-1500 period and...
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In recent decades, studies on the relations of the Greco-Roman world with China have been paid more attention. The studies are mainly relied on the written sources from the Mediterranean world about the Far East and those sources from China about the Far West. Following this tradition, the book will focus on the image of the Roman Empire, mainly the eastern part known to Chinese as Da-qin including the regions of Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, which...
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This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved ones, his attempts to guarantee the revolution through co-rulers, and the last frenzied assault on the god Amun.
The book then outlines the events of...
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A clearly written, accessible and comprehensive text that tells the story of man's journey from the time of the first hominids to the present. Sections include: Ancient World, 10,000 to 500BC, Classical World, 500 BC to AD500, Medieval World, AD500 to 1500, Early Modern World, 1500-1783, 19th Century, the Modern World from 1914 to the first decade of the 21st century. This book tells the story of how we got to where we are today - through conflict...
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The Super Summary of Western History is a fast overview of western history and culture, written for the thinking person willing to view history from more than one angle. This new history poses exciting questions and puts events into new perspectives, hopefully, shaking the reader out of stilted thinking processes. History is more than names and dates; it is a series of decisions surrounding events, which build the story of humankind. In our Super...
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Criss-crossing the globe from the prehistoric era to the modern day, Professor Jeremy Black takes you on a whirlwind tour of our past, leaving no stone unturned as he brings to life the fascinating history of civilisation.
Mankind has accomplished remarkable feats - building great cities, creating beautiful art forms and developing new modes of communication. At the same time, warfare discrimination and poverty reveal the darker side of human nature....
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This engaging yet deeply informed work not only examines Roman history and the multitude of Roman achievements in rich and colorful detail but also delineates their crucial and lasting impact on Western civilization. Noted historian Carl J. Richard argues that although we Westerners are "all Greeks" in politics, science, philosophy, and literature and "all Hebrews" in morality and spirituality, it was the Romans who made us Greeks and Hebrews.
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14) From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Volume I: From Prehistory to the First Millennium
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The internationally celebrated author of The Women's Room, Marilyn French spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers and prominent historians examining women's lives and activities in civilizations and societies spanning the ages. Beginning in prehistory, Origins moves on to examine women's lives in ancient Egypt, China, India, Peru, Mexico, Greece, and Rome. In her reconstruction of wars, laws, and other activities affecting both women and...
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NOAH (Indra) Nuh in Islam, a prophet, same as the Indian Manu, the Law giver
The Civilisation at the Time of Noah had achieved a very high standard of living and is nowadays known as ATLANTIS, that world that Atlas carried on his Back. At that time a Comet Fell onto the Earth and caused a Polar Shifting.
People of Noah had become BIG Sinners, God ordered him to build an ARK and to take his family, his followers, and two or three pairs of Every kind...
16) Cyrus The Great
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Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non-Jew "anointed by god." Cyrus influenced the US Bill of Rights, and is the biblical figure to whom US President Donald Trump has been favorably compared by Christian evangelicals and the Prime Minister of...
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What is the ordained fate of the One-World-Government/New-World-Order?How, when and by whom will it be broken?What will this do to the America we know?What does it all mean at the individual level?This book gives an understanding of the current world situation and where it is headed. It provides understanding, peace, hope and strength.
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Ce livre retrace l'histoire ancienne de la Perse et explore les informations issues des découvertes archéologiques.
La Perse proprement dite n'apparaît pas dans l'histoire en des siècles aussi reculés que les plaines arrosées par le Tigre et l'Euphrate. Mais par les conditions géographiques du milieu, la Perse est antérieure, pour ainsi dire, à la Mésopotamie ; il est donc impossible qu'elle n'ait alors fourni des hommes.
L'histoire ancienne...
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J'étais depuis quelques semaines à Ispahan, attendant avec impatience que l'abaissement d'une température caniculaire me permît de continuer mon voyage vers le golfe Persique et les ruines de Persépolis. Il eût été imprudent de commencer ce long trajet avant l'époque o les premiers vents d'automne dissipent les miasmes fébriles qui planent pendant l'été sur les plaines du sud de la Perse. Déjà je sentais en moi le germe et les avant-coureurs...
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Les anciennes écritures de l'Égypte, qui de tout temps ont été l'objet d'une vive curiosité, ne figuraient encore dans nos musées que pour une bien faible part à la fin du siècle dernier. Depuis cette époque, de riches collections d'antiquités égyptiennes nous sont venues des rives du Nil; le Louvre a vu se former un musée nouveau, consacré tout entier à l'Égypte d'autrefois ; et bientt un obélisque, enlevé aux ruines de Thèbes,...
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