The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of RomeW. W. Norton & Company, 2007. márc. 17. - 896 oldal A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”—literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts—to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them. |
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... Story of the World: History for the Classical Child (Peace Hill Press) Volume 1: Ancient Times (rev. ed., 2006) Volume 2: The Middle Ages (2003) Volume 3: Early Modern Times (2004) Volume 4: The Modern Age (2005) Though the Darkness ...
... Story 4 Sumer, slightly later 10 The Rise of Aristocracy 4 Sumer, 3600 BC 17 The Creation of Empire 4 The Nile river valley, 3200 BC 22 The Age of Iron 4 The Indus river valley, 3102 BC 30 The Philosopher King 4 The Yellow river valley ...
... story emerges. There are no kings and wives in prehistory. Stripped of personality, prehistoric peoples too often appear as blocks of shifting color on a map: moving north, moving west, generating a field of cultivated grain or ...
... stories that people choose to preserve and tell to their children. Every historian sorts through evidence, discards ... story is to put all of our faith in the explanations for human behavior in that which can be touched, smelled, seen ...
... story, Dumuzi is not only a shepherd and king, but also has the blood of gods in his veins; despite his divinity, Inanna finds Dumuzi unworthy. “The shepherd will go to bed with you!” exclaims the sun-god Utu, but Inanna (who generally ...
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The Assyrian Renaissance 4 Assyria Israel Egypt and Phoenicia | 335 |
New Peoples 4 Assyria Babylonia and Greece 850800 BC | 344 |
Trading Posts and Colonies 4 Italy and Greece 800720 BC | 354 |
Old Enemies 4 Assyria Urartu Syria and Babylonia | 363 |
Kings of Assyria and Babylon 4 Assyria Israel and Egypt | 371 |
Spectacular Defeat 4 Assyria Babylonia Judah and Egypt | 382 |
The Decline of the King 4 China 771628 BC | 391 |
The Assyrians in Egypt 4 Assyria Babylonia Phrygia Lydia | 399 |
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Thirteen The First Military Dictator 4 Sumer 23342279 BC | 95 |
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Fourteen The First Planned Cities 4 The Indus river valley 2300 BC | 104 |
Fifteen The First Collapse of Empire 4 Egypt 24502184 BC | 110 |
Sixteen The First Barbarian Invasions 4 Akkadia Sumer and Elam | 118 |
Seventeen The First Monotheist 4 Sumer and the Western Semitic lands | 127 |
Eighteen The First Environmental Disaster 4 Sumer 20372004 BC | 139 |
Nineteen The Battle for Reunification 4 Egypt 21811782 BC | 147 |
Twenty The Mesopotamian Mixing Bowl 4 Mesopotamia 2004 | 155 |
TwentyOne The Overthrow of the Xia 4 The Yellow river valley 1766 BC | 164 |
TwentyTwo Hammurabis Empire 4 Babylonia 17811712 BC | 170 |
TwentyThree The Hyksos Seize Egypt 4 Egypt 17821630 BC | 178 |
TwentyFive The Harappan Disintegration 4 India 17501575 BC | 192 |
TwentySeven Ahmose Expels the Hyksos 4 Egypt 15701546 BC | 202 |
TwentyNine The ThreeWay Contest 4 Egypt Mesopotamia and Asia Minor | 213 |
Thirty The Shifting Capitals of the Shang 4 China 17531400 BC | 219 |
ThirtyTwo Struggle of the Gods 4 Egypt 13861340 BC | 229 |
ThirtyThree Wars and Marriages 4 Egypt Mesopotamia and Asia Minor | 238 |
ThirtyFour The Greatest Battle in Very Ancient Times 4 Egypt Asia Minor | 246 |
ThirtyFive The Battle for Troy 4 Asia Minor and Greece 12601230 BC | 253 |
Egypt 12121190 BC | 267 |
The Mandate of Heaven 4 China 1040918 BC | 299 |
The Bharata War 4 Northern India 950 BC | 306 |
The Son of David 4 Israel Arabia and Egypt 1050931 BC | 314 |
From Western to Eastern Zhou 4 China 918771 BC | 328 |
Medes and Persians 4 Assyria Babylonia Elam Media and Persia | 410 |
Conquest and Tyranny 4 Greece Asia Minor and North Africa | 418 |
FiftySeven The Beginnings and End of Empire 4 Italy Assyria Babylonia | 431 |
FiftyEight A Brief Empire 4 Babylonia Egypt and Media 605580 BC | 443 |
FiftyNine Cyrus the Great 4 Babylonia Lydia Arabia Judah Media | 455 |
Sixty The Republic of Rome 4 North Africa Italy and Asia Minor | 469 |
SixtyOne Kingdoms and Reformers 4 India 560500 BC | 482 |
SixtyTwo The Power of Duty and the Art of War 4 China 551475 BC | 491 |
SixtyThree The Spreading Persian Empire 4 Persia Egypt and India | 500 |
SixtyFour The Persian Wars 4 Persia Egypt and Greece 527479 BC | 514 |
SixtyFive The Peloponnesian Wars 4 Persia Egypt Greece and Sicily | 539 |
SixtySix The First Sack of Rome 4 Italy 495390 BC | 555 |
SixtySeven The Rise of the Chin 4 China 403325 BC | 563 |
SixtyEight The Macedonian Conquerors 4 Persia Egypt Greece | 570 |
SixtyNine Rome Tightens Its Grasp 4 Italy Sicily and Carthage | 584 |
Seventy Alexander and the Wars of the Successors 4 The known world | 609 |
SeventyThree The Wars of the Sons 4 The known world 285202 BC | 622 |
SeventyFour Roman Liberators and Seleucid Conquerors 4 Greece Macedonia | 638 |
SeventyFive Between East and West 4 China Bactria Parthia and India | 649 |
SeventySix Breaking the System 4 Italy Sicily Greece and North Africa | 659 |
SeventyEight New Men 4 Italy Britain Gaul Egypt and Parthia | 680 |
SeventyNine Empire 4 The Roman Empire Parthia and Egypt | 697 |
Eighty Eclipse and Restoration 4 China 33 BCAD 75 | 712 |
EightyTwo The Edges of the Roman World 4 The Roman Empire Parthia | 735 |
EightyFour The Mistake of Inherited Power 4 The Roman Empire Parthia | 751 |
EightyFive Savior of the Empire 4 The Roman Empire Parthia and the Persian | 764 |
Notes | 779 |
Works Cited | 817 |
Permissions | 831 |
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