Making Civilizations
Subtitle: The World Before 600
Publisher: The Belknap Press
Published: 2020-09-08
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1216
ISBN-13: 9780674047174
Subjects: Civilization, history
Description: "From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-Joachim Gehrke, a distinguished group of scholars lays out latest findings about Neanderthals, the Agrarian Revolution, the founding of imperial China, the world of Western classical antiquity, and more"--
Table of contents: label: Hans-Joachim Gehrke
title: Introduction; label: Ⅰ
title: Hermann Parzinger: Prehistory and Early History; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: The Emergence of Modern Humans; label: 2
title: Sedentism, a Productive Economy, and Group Identity; label: 3
title: Innovations, Upheavals, and Complex Societies; label: 4
title: Areas beyond Advanced Civilizations; label: 5
title: On Time Axes and Axial Ages; label: Ⅱ
title: Karen Radner: Early Civilizations of the Ancient Near East: Egypt and Western Asia []; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: Early States; label: 2
title: Writing Everywhere: Bureaucrats, Men of Letters, and Trading Companies; label: 3
title: Chariots and Glass: New Toys for Royal Brethren; label: 4
title: A New Beginning: Petty States and Great Empires; label: Ⅲ
title: Hans-Joachim Gehrke: The World of Classical Antiquity; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: On the Way to a New World: The Mediterranean and Its Environs; label: 2
title: Persians and Greeks: The World Divided; label: 3
title: The Roman Republic; label: 4
title: The Hellenistic World; label: 5
title: The Zenith and Decline of the Roman Republic; label: 6
title: The Roman Empire and Global Unity; label: Ⅳ
title: Mark Edward Lewis: Ancient China; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: Geographic Background; label: 2
title: The Archaic State: Shang and Zhou; label: 3
title: The Warring States Transition; label: 4
title: The First Empires: Qin and Han; label: 5
title: Early Cities; label: 6
title: The Great Families: Wei and Jin; label: 7
title: The Military Dynasties: Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, and Northern Wei; label: 8
title: The Institutional Religions: Daoism and Buddhism; label: 9
title: Medieval Cities; label: 10
title: Early Imperial China and the Outer World; label: 11
title: Reunification and the Fall of the Sui Dynasty; label: Ⅴ
title: Axel Michaels: South Asia and Southeast Asia; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: Harappan Civilization, c. 2600–1900 BC; label: 2
title: The Arrival of the Indo-Aryans, Second Millennium BC; label: 3
title: Vedic Culture, c. 1750–500 BC; label: 4
title: State Structures and Ascetic Movements, 600–200 BC; label: 5
title: Between the Great Empires: Transregional Connections, c. 200 BC–AD 300; label: 6
title: The Classical Age and the Formation of Hinduism, c. 300–600; label: 7
title: India’s Influence in East and Southeast Asia; title: Notes; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Contributors; title: Index