LEADER 05218nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910463423603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-15820-X 010 $a1-118-53269-4 010 $a1-118-53267-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000327406 035 $a(EBL)1117263 035 $a(OCoLC)827208512 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001343105 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11708902 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001343105 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11317888 035 $a(PQKB)11773833 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1117263 035 $a(JP-MeL)3000065521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1117263 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10657541 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL447070 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000327406 100 $a20130313d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorld history$b[electronic resource] $ea concise thematic analysis. Volume I /$fSteven Wallech ... [et al.] 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aChichester, West Sussex $cWiley-Blackwell$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (430 p.) 225 0 $aWorld history ;$vv. 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-53266-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWorld History: A Concise Thematic Analysis; Table of Contents; Introduction; UNIT ONE The Ancient World; THEMES; The artificial existence of civilization; The biology of civilization; The geography of civilization; The climate of civilization; The relationship between belief and action; MAPS; Original Agricultural Sites; CHAPTER 1 BIOLOGY AND WORLD HISTORY: Civilization and Nomads; Climate; The Geography of Cultivation; The Domestication of Animals; Urban Development; The Nomads; Disease History; Suggested Reading; The World from 200 BCE-200 CE 327 $aCHAPTER 2 MESOPOTAMIA: The Land between the RiversA Temple Economy; The Causes of Trade; Kings, War, and Ecocide; The Art of Writing and Hammurabi's Code; The General Matrix of Civilization; The Dawn of Religion: Creation Myths; Iron and Mesopotamia; The Hebrews; The Emergence of Monotheism; Suggested Readings; CHAPTER 3 PRE-ISLAMIC AFRICA: Egyptian, Nilotic, and Sub-Saharan Africa; Egypt, the Gift of the Nile; The Archaic Period (ca. 3100-2700 BCE) and the Pyramid Age of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700-2200 BCE) 327 $aThe First Intermediate Period (ca. 2200-2000 BCE) and the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2000-1786 BCE)The Hyksos and Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1786-1575 BCE) and the New Kingdom (ca. 1575-1050 BCE); SPECIAL TOPIC: The Distant but Powerful Link between Pacific Currents and Egyptian Floods; Egypt and the Iron Age; Nilotic Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Iron; Suggested Reading; CHAPTER 4 INDIA: From the Indus to the Ganges; Iron, Rice, and India; Indian Religions; Religious Opposition; The Maturation of India's Faiths; Suggested Reading; CHAPTER 5 CHINA: The Yellow River Civilization 327 $aThe Land and the PeopleMythological China; The Bronze Age: The Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynsties; The Iron Age: Economic, Military, and Commercial Revolutions; The Golden Age of Classical Chinese Philosophy; China's First Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties; Centers of Power within and beyond the Han Empire; special topic: Lady Lu: Empress Dowager; Suggested Reading; CHAPTER 6 THE NOMADS' TRADE: and the Great Migrations; The First Wave of Mass Migrations: The Wheel, the Chariot, and Nomads; A Second Wave of Migrations: The Iron Age; Cavalry: The Third Wave of Migrations; Suggested Reading 327 $aCHAPTER 7 GREECE: The Rainfall ZoneNetwork Cities and the Special Case of Athens; The Role of Coins in Athenian History; The Limits of Democracy; Sparta; The Failure of Greek Politics; Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic World; Greek Philosophy; Physics; Math and Logic: Metaphysics; Socrates and his Followers; Drama; The Origins of History; Suggested Reading; CHAPTER 8 THE HELLENISTIC EAST AND PERSIA: A Cultural Bridge; The Hellenistic East; Diffusion of Hellenism to the East; Kings, Cities, and Soldiers; Hellenistic Philosophy; The Stoics; One God, One Lord 327 $aThe Persians 330 $a World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of factsOffers a comparative analysis of the great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the AmericasAddresses themes of population dynamics, food production challenges, disease history, warfare, and other major issues for civilizationsFeatures new interior design and organ 606 $aWorld history 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld history. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 676 $a909 700 $aWallech$b Steven$0936678 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463423603321 996 $aWorld history$92157471 997 $aUNINA