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Taylor & Francis Ancient Civilizations 4Th Edn by Brian Fagan
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world's first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations and the great powers in the Near East, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, the Mediterranean world in the first millennium, Imperial Rome, northeast Africa, the divine kings in southeast Asia, and empires in East Asia, as well as early states in the Americas and Andean civilization. Ancient Civilizations includes a number of features to support student learning: a wealth of images, including several new illustrations; feature boxes which expand on key sites, finds and written sources; and an extensive guide to further reading. With new perceptions of the origin and collapse of states, including a review of the issue of sustainability, this fourth edition has been extensively updated in the light of spectacular new discoveries and the latest theoretical advances.Examining the world's pre-industrial civilizations from a multidisciplinary perspective and offering a comparative analysis of the field which explores the connections between all civilizations around the world, Scarre and Fagan, both established authorities on world prehistory, provide a valuable introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity. PART I BACKGROUND CHAPTER 1 THE STUDY OF CIVILIZATION CHAPTER 2 THEORIES OF STATES PART II THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS CHAPTER 3 MESOPOTAMIA: THE FIRST CITIES (3500-2000 B.C.) CHAPTER 4 EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION CHAPTER 5 SOUTH ASIA: HARAPPAN AND LATER CIVILIZATIONS CHAPTER 6 THE FIRST CHINESE CIVILIZATIONS PART III GREAT POWERS IN THE NEAR EAST CHAPTER 7 NEAR EASTERN KINGDOMS (2000-1200 B.C.) CHAPTER 8 THE NEAR EAST IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM B.C. PART IV THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS CHAPTER 10 THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM (1000-30 B.C.) CHAPTER 11 IMPERIAL ROME PART V NORTHEAST AFRICA AND ASIA CHAPTER 12 NORTHEAST AFRICA: KUSH, MEROE, AND AKSUM CHAPTER 13 DIVINE KINGS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA CHAPTER 14 KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES IN EAST ASIA (770 B.C.-A.D. 700) PART VI EARLY STATES IN THE AMERICAS CHAPTER 15 LOWLAND MESOAMERICA CHAPTER 16 HIGHLAND MESOAMERICA CHAPTER 17 THE FOUNDATIONS OF ANDEAN CIVILIZATION CHAPTER 18 ANDEAN STATESCHAPTER 19 EPILOGUE