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The Penguin historical atlas of ancient civilizations / John Haywood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haywood, John, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical geography.
- Historical geography--Maps.
- History, Ancient.
- History, Ancient--Maps.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Civilization, Ancient--Maps.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Historical atlas of ancient civilizations
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Penguin, 2005.
- Summary:
- The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world's earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the Americas and Polynesia, via the birth of Greek city states and the foundation of Rome. It examines the development of civilizations in the Near East - Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian - as well as those in Europe - the Minoans, Etruscans and Celts. Across the continents of Africa, Asia and America it covers subjects including Egypt from its pre-dynastic roots to the age of the Pharaohs, China during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the great cities of the Incas and Aztecs. Vivid descriptions of individual civilizations are complemented by discussion of such key topics as colonization, agriculture and technology, and the rise of empires. Richly illustrated with photographs, artwork re-creations and full-colour maps, this is an illuminating and multi-faceted one-volume introduction to early peoples and the worlds they created.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What is Civilization? 8
- Part I The Ancient Near East 18
- The First Farmers 22
- The First Towns 24
- The Sumerians 26
- The First Empires 28
- Ziggurats 30
- The Old Babylonian Empire 32
- The Elamites 34
- The Hittite Empire 36
- Assyrians and Kassites 38
- The Age of the Sea Peoples 40
- The Kingdoms of the Bible Lands 42
- The Phoenicians 44
- Assyria's Imperial Prime 46
- The New Babylonian Empire 48
- The Persian Empire 50
- The End of the Ancient Near East 52
- Part II The African Civilizations 54
- Predynastic Egypt 58
- Old Kingdom Egypt 60
- Middle Kingdom Egypt 62
- New Kingdom Egypt 64
- The Nubian Civilizations 66
- The Carthaginian Empire 68
- Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa 70
- Part III The First Civilizations of Asia 72
- The Indus Valley Civilization 76
- Vedic India 78
- Ashoka and the Mauryan Empire 80
- Neolithic China 82
- Shang China 84
- Zhou China 86
- The Unification of China 88
- Part IV The First European Civilizations 90
- Neolithic Europe 94
- The Bronze Age and the Rise of Elites 96
- The Minoans 98
- The Mycenaeans 100
- The Greek City-states 102
- Greek Colonization 104
- Italy Before the Romans 106
- Early Rome 108
- The Ancient Celts 110
- The Iberians 112
- Part V The Ancient Americas 114
- The Preclassic Civilizations 118
- The Maya 120
- Teotihuacan and the Toltecs 122
- The Aztec Empire 124
- Farmers of the Southwestern Deserts 126
- The Mound Builders 128
- The Origins of the Andean Civilizations 130
- The First Andean Empires 132
- The Inca Empire 134
- Chiefdoms of the Pacific 136.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 138) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0141014482
- OCLC:
- 57527901
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