| Description |
xvii, 742 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The origins of civilization -- The first achievements of man -- The first civilization of Mesopotamia -- Early Egypt -- The first expansion of civilization -- The Near East in the second millennium -- New civilizations West and East -- The rise of new outlooks -- The unification of the Near East -- Hebrew monotheism -- Historic civilizations of India and China -- The early Greek world -- The beginnings of Greek civilization -- Rise and spread of the Greek city-state -- Greek civilization in the age of revolution -- The sixth century -- The classic age of Greece -- The Greeks against the Persians -- Athenian democracy and imperialism -- Fifth-century civilization -- End of the golden age -- The broadening of Greece -- Decline of the city-state -- Greek civilization in the fourth century -- Alexander and the Hellenistic world -- Hellenistic civilization -- The rise of Rome -- The early Western Mediterranean -- Rome in Italy -- Rome in the Mediterranean -- The consolidation of Roman rule -- Decline of the Roman republic -- The age of Cicero and Caesar -- The Augustan age -- The ear of Eurasian stability -- The Roman peace -- The spread of Christianity -- The farther orient -- Decline of the ancient world -- The first signs of stress -- The later Roman empire -- The end of the ancient world |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [717]-728 |
| Subject |
History, Ancient.
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| LC no. |
74079633 |
| ISBN |
0195018141 |
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