LEADER 05158nam 2200601 450 001 9910828712303321 005 20230807221545.0 010 $a0-19-100336-0 010 $a0-19-100335-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000462482 035 $a(EBL)2146967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001562871 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16214396 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001562871 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14813769 035 $a(PQKB)11132058 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2146967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2146967 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11090390 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL822544 035 $a(OCoLC)918841501 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000462482 100 $a20140811d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBy steppe, desert, and ocean $ethe birth of Eurasia /$fProf Sir Barry Cunliffe 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cOxford University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (541 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-968918-0 311 $a0-19-968917-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; 1: The Land and the People ; Prime Movers; The Land of Eurasia; The Mountain Skeleton; The Steppe Corridor; The Deserts; The Ocean; Intensifying Connectivity; Regions of Precocious Development; The South West Asian Homeland; The East Asian Homeland; Geography Matters; 2: The Domestication of Eurasia,10,000-5000 BC ; The Changing Environment of the Fertile Crescent; New Strategies for Subsistence; The Beginnings of Agriculture; Relocation and a New Stability, 6900-5400 BC 327 $aOut of South West AsiaTo the Nile Valley; To Baluchistan and the Indus; To the Fringes of the Deserts of Central Asia; By Sea to the Islands and to Europe; Across the European Peninsula; Into the Steppe; The East Asian Cradle; The Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Yangtze Valley; The Origins of Millet Cultivation in the Yellow River Region; The Steppe Corridor: Some Possibilities; Retrospect; 3: Horses and Copper: The Centrality of the Steppe, 5000-2500 BC ; Herders and Farmers on the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, 5200-4500 BC; Whence Came Woolly Sheep?; The Horse 327 $aThe Steppe Interface with Europe, 4300-3500 BCThe Caucasian Barrier; The Late Uruk Expansion; Uruk and the Maikop Elite, 3700-3100 BC; Back to the Steppe: The Yamnaya Complex, 3300-2800 BC; Covered Wagons; Across the Kazakh Steppe; Into Transcaucasia, 3000-2500 BC; Coloured Stones and Glittering Copper; The Carpathian-Balkan Achievement; The Adoption of Copper Technology throughout the Steppe; Perspective; 4: The Opening of the Eurasian Steppe, 2500-1600 BC ; Mesopotamia, 2900-1600 BC; Across the Iranian Plateau; The Indus Valley; The Desert Cities of Western Central Asia 327 $aChariot Warriors on the Steppe: The Sintashta CultureAcross the Deserts of Central Asia; The Western Steppe in the Early Second Millennium; From the Altai to the Tarim Basin; The Gansu Corridor; 5: Nomads and Empires: The First Confrontations, 1600-600 BC; Band of Brothers: The Great Powers in the Near East, 1500-1200 BC; The Collapse of the Regional Kingdoms, 1200-900 BC; The Assyrian Empire: Its Rise and Fall, 900-612 BC; Maritime Systems in the West, 1000-600 BC; The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, 1500-600 BC; Medes and Persians on the Iranian Plateau, 1400-600 BC 327 $aChina and the Early States, 1700-481 BCChinese Chariots; The Steppe Corridor; The Altai-Sayan region; The Nomads of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe; Who Were the Scythians?; Steppe Culture and the Western Sedentary States, 800-600 BC; Nomads and the Chinese States, 800-600 BC; Nomads and Empires; 6: Learning from Each Other: Interaction along the Interface, 600-250 BC ; The Rise of the Persian Empire; An Empire of Provinces; The European Opposition and the Rise of Macedon; Alexander: The Last King of Persia; Hellenism in the East; The Indian Interface and the Beginnings of Ocean Trade 327 $aScythians on the Pontic Steppe and in Europe, 600-300 BC 330 $aBy Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of European, Near Eastern, and Chinese civilizations and the growing links between them by way of the Indian Ocean, the silk Roads, and the great steppe corridor (which crucially allowed horse riders to travel 607 $aEurasia$xCivilization 607 $aEurasia$xGeography 676 $a930 700 $aCunliffe$b Barry$0164591 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828712303321 996 $aBy steppe, desert, and ocean$94036712 997 $aUNINA