The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of RomeW. W. Norton & Company, 2007 M03 17 - 896 pages 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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... hand, display the fears and hopes of the people who tell them—and these are central to any explanation of their behavior. Myth, as the historian John Keay says, is the “smoke of history.” You may have to fan at it a good deal before you ...
... hand, they would have found Alulim's placement at “the beginning of civilization” extremely hard to swallow. In their own minds, the Sumerians had always been civilized. Alulim's kingship, recorded in the Sumerian king list (perhaps the ...
... hand in fertile black earth,. * Like early Sumerian history, early Egyptian history before about 3000 bc (“predynastic Egypt”) is divided into archaeological periods, each period defined partly by pottery styles, and named after towns ...
Susan Wise Bauer. bend over and place one hand in fertile black earth, the other on red, sunbaked desert. This doubleness, an existence carried on between two extremes, was echoed in Egypt's growing civilization. Like the cities of Sumer ...
... yet. On the other hand, it was a marking system that had grown more and more complex. Then the seal reappeared, this time conveying a whole new message. Ilshu, who once used his seal only to mark his grain 4 4 Firsts.
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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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History of the Ancient World: From The Earliest Accounts To The Fall Of Rome Susan Wise Bauer No preview available - 2007 |
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