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008 120326s2013 nyu j b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012010465
020 $a9781448872220 (library binding)
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050 00 $aCB311$b.H336 2013
082 00 $a930$223
100 1 $aHattstein, Markus.
245 10 $aPrehistory, first empires, and the ancient world :$bfrom the Stone Age to 900 CE /$cMarkus Hattstein.
260 $aNew York :$bRosen Pub.,$c2013.
263 $a1208
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aWitness to history : a visual chronicle of the world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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 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 independence.
505 0 $aThe 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 -- Biographies: the emperors of Rome -- Guiding principles and political organization of the Roman republic -- The Roman empire -- Glossary -- For more information -- For further reading -- Index.
650 0 $aCivilization, Ancient$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aCivilization, Classical$vJuvenile literature.