Prehistory, first empires, and the ancient world
Subtitle: from the Stone Age to 900 CE
By: Markus Hattstein
Series: Witness to history : a visual chronicle of the world
Publisher: Rosen Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781448872220
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Classical Civilization; Ancient Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Stone Age : the beginning of mankind; title: The first great civilizations; title: Migration of peoples; title: The early states of Mesopotamia; title: Ancient Egypt; title: The Hittites; title: Kingdoms on the borders of the Fertile Crescent; title: Syria and Palestine; title: Judaism; title: The Medes and the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids; title: The nomads of the Eurasian steppes; title: The religions of India, China, and Japan; title: India from the beginnings to the invasion of Alexander the Great; title: Early China up to the period of the "warring" states; title: The culture of the Greeks and Romans; title: Crete and Mycenae; the beginnings of the Greek culture; title: Classical Greece from the culture of the polis to the end of independence.; title: The rise and fall of a world power : from Macedonia to the Diadochoi; title: Judea and Arabia before the Romans; title: Carthage : world power and rival of Rome; title: The Etruscans : the league to the Roman Empire; title: Rome : from the beginnings to the end of the republic; title: The rule of the generals and the imperial Rome; title: From Constantine to the rise of Byzantium; title: Christianity; title: Armenia and Asia Minor from the Diadochoi to the Romans; title: Persia under the Parthians and the Sassanians; title: Celts, Slavs, and Germanic tribes; title: The great migration of peoples; title: The nomad empires of the Eurasian steppes; title: Ancient India; title: China's first emperors of the Qin and han dynasties; title: The first kingdoms in North and Northeast Africa; title: Biographies: the emperors of Rome; title: Guiding principles and political organization of the Roman republic; title: The Roman empire; title: Glossary; title: For more information; title: For further reading; title: Index.