| Description |
367 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Cover title: The Penguin encyclopedia of ancient civilizations. |
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Reprint. Originally published: Leicester : Windward, 1980. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-361) and index. |
| Contents |
Prehistory / Richard E. Leakey -- The emergence of civilization / Colin Renfrew -- Egypt. Ancient Egypt / Colin Walters ; The sea peoples / N.K. Sandars ; Ptolemaic Egypt / Colin Walters ; Early Roman Egypt / Colin Walters ; Late Roman and Byzantine Egypt / Colin Walters ; The religion of ancient Egypt / J.M. Plumley -- West Asia. Sumer / Thorkild Jacobsen ; Akkad / Thorkild Jacobsen ; Babylonia / A.K. Grayson ; Assyria / A.K. Grayson ; Mitanni / A.K. Grayson ; The Hittites / O.R. Gurney ; Urartu and Armenia / David M. Lang ; Syria / William Culican ; Phoenicia / William Culican ; Israel / Helmer Ringgren ; Troy / J.T. Hooker ; Phrygia and Lydia / T.R. Bryce ; Persia / T. Cuyler Young, Jr. ; After Alexander / E.J. Keall ; Mesopotamian religion / Thorkild Jacobsen ; The evolution of the alphabet / William Culican -- India. The Indus civilization / Arthur Cotterell ; The Aryan invasion of India / T. Burrow ; Early imperial India / A.L. Basham ; Hinduism / Wendy D. O'Flaherty ; Buddhism / Trevor Ling ; Jainism / Trevor Ling -- Europe. The Minoans / R.F. Willetts ; The Mycenaeans / J.T. Hooker ; Archaic Greece / J.T. Hooker ; Classical Greece / W.G. Forrest ; Macedon / N.G.L. Hammond ; Carthage / B.H. Warmington ; Sicily and Magna Graecia / B.H. Warmington ; The Etruscans / R.M. Ogilvie ; Republican Rome / R.M. Ogilvie ; The early Roman empire / Wolfgang Liebeschuetz ; The later Roman empire / Robert Browning ; Early Christianity / R.A. Markus ; The Graeco-Roman city / R.F. Willetts ; The Greek mind / John Gould ; The Roman mind / Kenneth Quinn -- China. Shang / Arthur Cotterell ; Chou / Arthur Cotterell ; Imperial unification / Arthur Cotterell ; The crisis of the early empire / Arthur Cotterell ; Early science and technology / Ho Peng Yoke ; Chinese art / William Watson -- America. The Olmecs / Ignacio Bernal ; Teotihuacán / Robert S. Santley ; The Toltecs / Richard Diehl ; The Maya / Gordon R. Willey ; The Aztecs / H.B. Nicholson ; The Incas / Geoffrey W. Conrad. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Ancient.
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| Added Author |
Cotterell, Arthur.
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| Added Title |
Penguin encyclopedia of ancient civilizations |
| ISBN |
0140114343 (paperback) |
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9780140114348 (paperback) |
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