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Table of Contents

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 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.
The 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Series
Witness to history : a visual chronicle of the world

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Dewey Decimal Class
930
Library of Congress
CB311 .H336 2013, CB311.H336 2013

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25260100M
ISBN 13
9781448872220
LCCN
2012010465

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