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 NEW–Reorganization of final chapters.

    ~Provides more fuller coverage of Late Antiquity and rise of Islam.

NEW–Chapter-opening Key Topics.

    ~Allows students to easily see main points for study and review.

NEW–Glossary of key terms.

    ~Provides students with an easy reference.

Section on Persia.

    ~Provides students with additional information on this area.

Sections on family and gender relations.

    ~Familiarizes students with this specific part of ancient life.

Boxed inserts are included.

    ~Offers details on the origins of writing in Mesopotamia; human sacrifice; abortion, and infanticide, etc.

The highly integrated world of the classical period.

    ~Emphasizes that, particularly in their classical formulations, ancient societies were tightly knit communities in which political, cultural, and religious life closely intermingled, and that society was not something set apart from the state, but was, instead, closely identified with it.

Comprehensive regional coverage.

    ~Includes the histories of Western Asia (Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Israel, Phoenicia, Philisitia); Egypt; the Mediterranean World (Greece, Rome, Carthage, Phoenicia); Europe.

Social history themes.

    ~Explores the family and the development of gender relations from hunting/gathering bands, to the rise of agriculture and of the state, to the emergence of new forms of the family in late antiquity; the role of women; relations of rich and poor; systems of class and status; the relationship of public and private realms; popular culture and daily life; slaves and freedmen; practices of manumission; relations between urban and rural, cultural insider and outsider, between high and popular culture.

Cultural themes

    ~Considers religion (e.g., the religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome); the development of monotheism in early Hebrew religion; the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity; games and festivals; urban lifestyles; leisure; art and architecture; literature: poetry, prose, history; philosophy and philosophers; popular philosophy; education; technology.

Institutional themes.

    ~Examines the ideology of empires and states (e.g., the ideology of the pharaonic state of Egypt; of Mesopotamian city-states; of Rome of the Republic and Empire); non-state chiefdoms of early Europe; the workings of Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic; the nature of the Christian church.

Political and military themes

    ~Discusses inter-city warfare in Mesopotamia; Egyptian unification; the rise and fall of empires; civil wars; class struggle; ethnic divisions; the decline of the city state in Greece; the fall of the Roman Republic; the fall of the Roman Empire.

The interconnections that permeate the histories of the Near East, Greece, and Rome is examined.

–Includes an in-depth look at both Athenian Democracy and the Roman Republic, focusing on how a direct democracy actually works and–in the case of the Republic–how its institutions enabled the Romans to conquer, and subsequently unify, the entire Mediterranean world.

The birth of Western Culture is considered.

    ~Describes how, in the Hellenistic World, the cultures of east and west interacted with each other to produce the amalgam we now call “Western Culture.”

Organizational flexibility.

~Allows instructors to emphasize the topics they choose, with no loss of continuity.

New To This Edition

 Reorganization of final chapters.

    ~Provides more fuller coverage of Late Antiquity and rise of Islam.

Chapter-opening Key Topics.

    ~Allows students to easily see main points for study and review.

Glossary of key terms.

    ~Provides students with an easy reference.

Table of Contents

I. THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST.

 1. The Early Civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

 2. An Age of Empires: The Near East, 2000-1000 B.C.

 3. The Near East to the Persian Empire.

II. THE GREEK WORLD.

 4. The Emergence of Greek Civilization.

 5. The Wars of the Greeks.

 6. Classical Athens.

 7. Philip, Alexander, and the Hellenistic World.

III. THE ROMAN WORLD.

 8. Early Rome.

 9. The Building of an Empire.

10. The Transformation of the RomanRepublic.

11. The Roman World from Augustus to the Third-Century Crisis.

12. The Roman Peace.

13. The Empire from the Third-Century Crisis to Justinian.

14. The Transformed Mediterranean.

Epilogue.

Suggested Readings.

Index.

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