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Global History of the Ancient World - Asia, Europe and Africa Before Islam

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome. This book takes a global approach to the distant past, following the development of human societies across the globe from the last Ice Age, 11,700 years ago, to the rise of Islam in the seventh century CE.

Sommario

Introduction: Ancient history and global history 1. Great changes: Until c. 4000 BCE 2. Making sense of past societies 3. Metals and the first complex societies: Until c. 1200 BCE 4. Early Iron Age crisis and recovery: C. 1200–800 BCE 5. City-states and empires in the Iron Age: C. 800–335 BCE 6. City-states and collective government 7. The empires strike back: 335 BCE–200 CE 8. Crisis, consolidation and collapse: 200–651 CE Conclusion: A global history of the ancient world

Info autore

Eivind Heldaas Seland is Professor of Ancient History and Premodern Global History at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Ships of the Desert and Ships of the Sea: Palmyra in the World Trade of the First Three Centuries CE (2016).

Riassunto

Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome. This book takes a global approach to the distant past, following the development of human societies across the globe from the last Ice Age, 11,700 years ago, to the rise of Islam in the seventh century CE.

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