Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Third Book of History, Containing Ancient History in Connection with Ancient Geography
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Third Book of History
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
History of Ancient Geography
Author: James Oliver ThomsonPublisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601438
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Third Book of History
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC
Author: Marc Van De MieroopPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118718178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of supplementary materials Addresses the wide variety of political, social, and cultural developments in the ancient Near East Updated features include new “Key Debate” boxes at the end of each chapter to engage students with various perspectives on a range of critical issues; a comprehensive timeline of events; and 46 new illustrations, including 12 color photos Features a new chapter addressing governance and continuity in the region during the Persian Empire Offers in-depth, accessible discussions of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh
Lectures delivered before the American Institute of Instruction ... including the journal of proceedings (slight variations)
Author: American Institute of InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Author: Susan Wise BauerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393070891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
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.
Ancient Perspectives
Author: Richard J. A. TalbertPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226789373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
The Geography Behind History
Author: William Gordon EastPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393004199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.
Author: John Vose