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The history of the ancient world : from the earliest accounts to the fall of Rome / by Bauer, S. Wise.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 779-829) and index.The origin of kingship -- The earliest story -- The rise of aristocracy -- The creation of empire -- The age of iron -- The philosopher king -- The first written records -- The first war chronicles -- The first civil war -- The first epic hero -- The first victory over death -- The first reformer -- The first military dictator -- The first planned cities -- The first collapse of empire -- The first barbarian invasions -- The first monotheist -- The first environmental disaster -- The battle for reunification -- The Mesopotamian mixing bowl -- The overthrow of the Xia -- Hammurabi's empire -- The Hyksos seize Egypt -- King Minos of Crete -- The Harappan disintegration -- The rise of the Hittites -- Ahmose expels the Hyksos -- Usurpation and revenge -- The three-way contest -- The shifting capitals of the Shang -- The Mycenaeans of Greece -- Struggle of the gods -- Wars and marriages -- The greatest battle in very ancient times -- The battle for Troy -- The first historical king of China -- The Rig Veda -- The wheel turns again -- The end of the new kingdom -- The dark age of Greece -- The dark age of Mesopotamia -- The fall of the Shang.The mandate of heaven -- The Bharata war -- The son of David -- From western to eastern Zhou -- The Assyrian renaissance -- New peoples -- Trading posts and colonies -- Old enemies -- Kings of Assyria and Babylon -- Spectacular defeat -- The decline of the king -- The Assyrians in Egypt -- Medes and Persians -- Conquest and tyranny -- The beginnings and end of empire -- A brief empire -- Cyrus the great -- The republic of Rome -- Kingdoms and reformers -- The power of duty and the art of war -- The spreading Persian empire -- The Persian wars -- The Peloponnesian wars -- The first sack of Rome -- The rise of the Ch'in -- The Macedonian conquerors -- Rome tightens its grasp -- Alexander and the wars of the successors -- The Mauryan epiphany -- First emperor, second dynasty -- The wars of the sons -- Roman liberators and Seleucid conquerors -- Between east and west -- Breaking the system -- The problems of prosperity -- New men -- Empire -- Eclipse and restoration -- The problem of succession -- The edges of the Roman world -- Children on the throne -- The mistake of inherited power -- Savior of the empire.The first volume in a new 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. Historian Bauer provides both sweeping scope and attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. Dozens of maps provide a geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This 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 a tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.--From publisher description.

Subjects: History, Ancient.;

© ©2007., W.W. Norton,

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Prehistory : a very short introduction / by Gosden, Chris,1955-;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Prehistory and archaeology-a note -- Very, very short introduction to chronology -- 1: What and when is prehistory? -- 2: Problems of prehistory -- 3: Human skills and experiences -- 4: Continental prehistories -- 5: Nature of human social life -- 6: Prehistory of the future -- Further reading -- Timelines -- Index.From the Publisher: Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. In this book, readers are invited to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been.

Subjects: History, Ancient.; Civilization, Ancient.;

© 2003., Oxford University Press,

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A history of ancient Egypt / by Van de Mieroop, Marc.;

Introductory concerns -- The formation of the Egyptian state (ca. 3400-2686) -- The great Pyramid builders (ca. 2686-2345) -- The end of the old kingdom and the first intermediate period (ca. 2345-2055) -- The middle kingdom (ca. 2055-1650) -- The second intermediate period and the Hyksos (ca. 1700-1550) -- The birth of empire: the early 18th dynasty (ca. 1550-1390) -- The Amarna revolution and the late 18th dynasty (ca. 1390-1295) -- The Ramessid Empire (ca. 1295-1203) -- The end of empire (ca. 1213-1070) -- The third intermediate period (ca. 1069-715) -- Egypt in the age of empires (ca. 715-332) -- Greek and Roman Egypt (332 BC-AD 395).Includes bibliographical references and index.

© 2011., Wiley-Blackwell,

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The histories : the complete translation, backgrounds, commentaries / by Herodotus.; Blanco, Walter,editor.; Roberts, Jennifer Tolbert,1947-editor,translator.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-628) and indexes."Walter Blanco's acclaimed translation of The Histories is now available in its entirety in this revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition. Herodotus's history is the earliest continuous prose narrative in Western literature. His long narrative--longer than either of the Homeric epics--continues to hold us spellbound because of the author's storytelling powers and intelligent curiosity. The perfect introduction to Herodotus, this Norton Critical Edition includes the complete text of The Histories. The translation is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction, a chronology of events, and a note on the Persian Wars. Seven maps--all new to the Second Edition--give readers a visual understanding of events and places, 490-479 B.C.E. "Backgrounds" includes a rich collection of historical works by Aeschylus, Bacchylides, Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plutarch. New to the Second Edition are contrasting accounts, by Diodorus of Sicily and Strabo, of the Amazons who were believed to be living in the mountainous regions. "Commentaries" is divided into two sections. Early modern interpretations are represented by Isaac Taylor, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Babington Macaulay. Seventeen modern assessments--three of them new to the Second Edition--focus on historical origins and backgrounds, Herodotus's place in history, and central issues concerning both the Persian Wars and Herodotus's reckoning of them. The new contributors are François Hartog, James Redfield, and Siep Stuurman."--Publisher's website.The histories -- Backgrounds -- Commentaries -- Early modern criticism -- Modern criticism. Background ; Herodotus ; The Persian Wars ; Aspects of Herodotus' work.

Subjects: History, Ancient.;

© [2013], W.W. Norton & Company,

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Smithsonian timelines of the ancient world / by Scarre, Christopher.; Smithsonian Institution.;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256) and index.

Subjects: History, Ancient; Middle Ages; Middle Ages;

© 1993., Smithsonian Institution ; D. Kindersley,

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Eating to excess : the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world / by Hill, Susan E.;

Introduction: the glutton and the fat body in the ancient world -- All fat is the lord's -- Philosophizing excess in Plato and Aristotle -- Inside and out: medicine, health, and physiognomy in the ancient world -- Popular gluttons and fat bodies: the trickster Herakles, Petronius's Satyricon, and Anthenaeus's The learned banqueters -- Ingest the world, not the world: early Christian ideas of excess and self-restraint -- Gluttony becomes a deadly sin.Includes bibliographical references and index."This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today"--Provided by publisher."This book is about Eating to Excess - The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Food habits; Gluttony; Human body; Obesity; Excess (Philosophy); Civilization, Ancient.; History, Ancient.;

© c2011., Praeger,

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SPQR : a history of ancient Rome / by Beard, Mary,1955-;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-562) and index.Prologue: The history of Rome -- Cicero's finest hour -- In the beginning -- The kings of Rome -- Rome's great leap forward -- A wider world -- New politics -- From empire to emperors -- The home front -- The transformations of Augustus -- Fourteen emperors -- The haves and have-nots -- Rome outside Rome -- Epilogue: The first Roman millennium.Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? Classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 CE -- nearly a thousand years later -- when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire, S.P.Q.R. (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 BCE with the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline and Cicero, the renowned politician and orator, Beard animates this "terrorist conspiracy," which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy and autocracy that would come to define much of Rome's subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us to famous and familiar characters -- Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others -- while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests.

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Secrets of lost empires. [videorecording] / by WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.).Science Unit.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service.; WGBH Video (Firm);

DVD, region 1, NTSC; 4x3 full screen; Dolby Digital stereo.System requirements for DVD-ROM features: Adobe Acrobat Reader, web browser, Internet connection, DVD-ROM drive.Narrator: Stacy Keach.Editors, Dick Bartlett, David Elliot ; music, Ray Loring ; cinematography, Nigel Meakin.Television programs on the history of the Colosseum and Stonehenge. Nova sent archaeological teams to each site to test their hypotheses using traditional building techniques.Colosseum (56 min.) -- Stonehenge (56 min.).

Subjects: DVD-Video discs.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Colosseum (Rome, Italy); Architecture, Ancient.; Ancient history.; Ancient civilization;

© c2006., WGBH Boston Video,

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How mathematics happened : the first 50,000 years / by Rudman, Peter Strom.;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-308) and index.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Mathematical Darwinism -- 1.2. The replacement concept -- 1.3. Number systems -- 2. The birth of arithmetic -- 2.1. Pattern recognition evolves into counting -- 2.2. Counting in hunter-gatherer cultures -- 3. Pebble counting evolves into written numbers -- 3.1. Herder-farmer and urban cultures in the valley of the Nile -- 3.2. Herder-farmer and urban cultures by the waters of Babylon -- 3.3. In the jungles of the Maya -- 4. Mathematics in the valley of the Nile -- 4.1. Egyptian multiplication -- 4.2. Egyptian fractions -- 4.3. Egyptian algebra -- 4.4. Pyramidiots -- 5. Mathematics by the waters of Babylon -- 5.1. Babylonian multiplication -- 5.2. Babylonian fractions -- 5.3. Plimpton 322, the enigma -- 5.4. Babylonian algebra -- 5.5. Babylonian calculation of square root of 2 -- 6. Mathematics attains maturity : rigorous proof -- 6.1. Pythagoras -- 6.2. Eratosthenes -- 6.3. Hippasus -- 7. We learn history to be able to repeat it -- 7.1. Teaching mathematics in ancient Greece and how we should but do not -- Appendix. Answers to fun questions.

Subjects: Mathematics, Ancient.; Mathematics, Babylonian.; Mathematics; Metrology;

© 2007., Prometheus Books,

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Women's work : the first 20,000 years : women, cloth, and society in early times / by Barber, E. J. W.,1940-;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-322) and index.

Subjects: Textile fabrics, Prehistoric.; Women, Prehistoric.; Textile fabrics, Ancient.; Women;

© c1994., Norton,

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