Making civilizations : the world before 600
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Gehrke, Hans-Joachim
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
[2020].
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| Umfang/Format: |
vii, 1206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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A history of the world
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Prehistory and ancient history / Hermann Parzinger
- Introduction
- The emergence of modern humans
- Sedentism, a productive economy, and group identity
- Innovations, upheavals, and complex societies
- Areas beyond advanced civilizations
- On time axes and axial ages
- Early civilizations of the ancient Near East: Egypt and Western Asia / Karen Radner
- Introduction
- Early states
- Writing everywhere: bureaucrats, men of letters, and trading companies
- Chariots and glass: new toys for royal brethren
- A new beginning: petty states and great empires
- The world of classical antiquity / Hans-Joachim Gehrke
- Introduction
- On the way to a new world: the Mediterranean and its environs
- Persians and Greeks: the world divided
- The Roman Republic
- The Hellenistic world
- The zenith and decline of the Roman Republic
- The Roman Empire and global unity
- Ancient China / Mark Edward Lewis
- Introduction
- Geographic background
- The archaic state: Shang and Zhou
- The warring states transition
- The first empires: Qin and Han
- Early cities
- The great families: Wei and Jin
- The military dynasties: Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, and Northern Wei
- The institutional religions: Daoism and Buddhism
- Medieval cities
- Early Imperial China and the outer world
- Reunification and the fall of the Sui dynasty
- South Asia and Southeast Asia / Axel Michaels
- Introduction
- Harappan civilization
- The arrival of the Indo-Aryans
- Vedic culture
- State structures and ascetic movements
- Between the great empires: transregional connections
- The classical age and the formation of Hinduism
- India's influence in East and Southeast Asia.
