World history [[electronic resource] ] : a concise thematic analysis. Volume I / / Steven Wallech ... [et al.]

• Autore: Wallech Steven
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Disciplina: 909
• Soggetto topico: World history; Civilization - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: World 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 ; CHAPTER 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) ; The 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 ; The 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 ; CHAPTER 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 ; The Persians
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: World history
• ISBN: 1-299-15820-X; 1-118-53269-4; 1-118-53267-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463423603321
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