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Ancient Mediterranean civilizations : from prehistory to 640 CE / Ralph W. Mathisen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathisen, Ralph W., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Textbooks.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Mediterranean Region--Antiquities--Textbooks.
- Mediterranean Region--History--To 476--Textbooks.
- Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517--Textbooks.
- Antiquities.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- History.
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The most thought-provoking, contemporary, and engaging survey of the ancient world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1. The origins of history
- Civilization Before Civilization (2,000,000-3000 BCE)
- Part 2. The Ancient Near East
- Mesopotamia and the Bronze Age (6000-1200 BCE)
- Egypt and the Bronze Age (5000-1200 BCE)
- Coastal Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean (2500-800 BCE)
- Iron Age Empires: Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia (850-500 BCE)
- Part 3. The Ancient Greek world
- Greece in the Dark and Archaic Ages (1100-500 BCE)
- Sparta, Athens, and the Classical Age (500-387 BCE)
- Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age (387-31 BCE)
- Civilization beyond the Near East, Greece, and Rome (2300-31 BCE)
- Part 4. The Ancient Roman world
- The Rise of Rome and the Roman Republic (753-120 BCE)
- Crisis, Recovery, and the Creation of the Principate (150-21 BCE)
- The Roman Peace (27 BCE-192 CE)
- Part 5. The world of late antiquity
- Crisis, Recovery, and the Creation of the Late Roman Empire (192-337)
- The Christian Empire and the Late Roman World (337-476)
- The End of Antiquity (476-640).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mathisen, Ralph W., 1947- Ancient mediterranean civilizations
- ISBN:
- 9780190080945
- 0190080949
- OCLC:
- 1112141140
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