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ISBN 10: 0429684388
ISBN 13: 9780429684388
Author: Chris Scarre, Brian M. Fagan, Charles Golden
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 in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Valley, Shang China, and the Maya. It also addresses subsequent developments in Southwest Asia, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, Greece and Rome, the first states of sub-Saharan Africa, divine kings and empires in East and Southeast Asia, and the Aztec and Inka empires of Mesoamerica and the Andes. It 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 fifth 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, this volume provides a unique introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity. It will prove invaluable to students of Archaeology.
Ancient Civilizations 5th Table of contents
Part I Background
Chapter 1 The Study of Civilization
What Is a “Civilization”?
Comparing Civilizations
Civilizations and Their Neighbors
“Primary” and “Secondary” Civilizations
The Rediscovery of Ancient Civilizations
The Threat to Ancient Civilizations
Chapter 2 Theories of States
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Four Classic Theories for the Emergence of State Societies
Coercive Power versus Collective Action
Cultural Systems and Civilization
Ecological Theories
Social Theories
Cycling Chiefdoms: Processes and Agents
The Collapse of Civilizations
Civilization and Sustainability
Western and Indigenous Science
Part II The First Civilizations
Prelude to Civilization: First Villages in the Fertile Crescent
Chapter 3 Mesopotamia: The First Cities
The Setting
Irrigation and Alluvium: Hassuna, Samarra, Halaf, and Ubaid
The Uruk Revolution
The Early Dynastic Period
The Akkadian Empire
Imperial Ur
Wider Horizons
Chapter 4 Egyptian Civilization
Kmt: “The Black Land”
Origins
The Archaic Period: Kingship, Writing, and Bureaucracy
The Old Kingdom: Territorial and Divine Kingship
The First Intermediate Period
The Middle Kingdom: The Organized Oasis
The Second Intermediate Period
The New Kingdom: Imperial Kings
The Transformation of Egypt
Chapter 5 South Asia: The Indus Civilization
The Origins of Village Life
Early Harappan
Mature Harappan: The Indus Civilization
Farming Villages of the Indus and Ganges
Early Historic Cities
Chapter 6 The First Chinese Civilizations
Setting
Millet and Rice
Liangzhu
Ritual and Pilgrimage: The Niuheliang Temple
Elite Traditions in the Longshan Phase
Shimao and the Northern Zone
Three Dynasties: Xia, Shang, and Zhou
Beyond the Shang: Bronze Age Traditions in Other Regions of China
The Western Zhou
Part III Great Powers in Southwest Asia
Chapter 7 Mesopotamia and the Levant
Bronze Age Cities in Anatolia
The Struggle for Mesopotamia
The World of the Mari Letters
The Emergence of Babylon and the Old Babylonian Period
The Rise of the Hittites
Egypt and Mitanni: War in the Levant
The Hittites in the Levant
The Hittites in Anatolia
Mesopotamia and Iran
Chapter 8 Southwest Asia in the First Millennium B.C.
A Reordered World
The Mediterranean Coastlands
The Archaeology of Empire
Assyria Resurgent
The Mountain Kingdom of Urartu
The Assyrian Apogee
The Neo-Babylonian Empire
Phrygians and Lydians
The Rise of the Persians
Part IV The Mediterranean World
Chapter 9 The First Aegean Civilizations
The Aegean Early Bronze Age
Mainland Greece and the Cycladic Islands
Minoan Civilization: The Palace Period
Crete and Its Neighbors
Mycenaean Greece
After the Palaces: Postpalatial Greece
Chapter 10 The Mediterranean World in the First Millennium
The Recovery of Greece
Phoenicians and Carthaginians
The Greek Colonies
Etruscan Italy
Archaic Greece
Three Greek Cities: Athens, Corinth, Sparta
Classical Greece
Sequel: The Hellenistic World
Chapter 11 Imperial Rome
The Roman Republic
The Early Roman Empire
The Culture of Empire
The Military Establishment
Arteries of Empire: Roads and Sea-Lanes
Cities
The End of the Ancient World
Part V Northeast Africa and Asia
The Erythraean Sea
Chapter 12 Northeast Africa: Kush, Meroe, and Aksum
Nubia and the Middle Nile
Camels and Monsoons
Meroe
Aksum
Chapter 13 Sub-Saharan Africa
Jenné-jeno
Sahel States: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
The East African Coast: Monsoons and Stone Towns
The Far Interior: Interlacustrine Kingdoms
South Central Africa: Gold and Ivory
West African Forest Kingdoms
Chapter 14 Divine Kings in Southeast Asia
The Rise of States in Southeast Asia
The Angkor State
Collapse
Chapter 15 Kingdoms and Empires in East Asia
Society Transformed: The Eastern Zhou Period
The First Chinese Empire
The Han Empire
Secondary States: Korea and Japan
Part VI Early States in the Americas
Chapter 16 Lowland Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica
Village Farmers
The Formative Period: The Olmec
Preclassic Maya Civilization
Classic Maya Civilization
The Ninth-Century Collapse
Postclassic Lowland Maya Civilization
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