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Features

Emphasize the varied nature of the ancient world:

• Comprehensive regional coverage examines the histories of Western Asia (Mesopotamia, Persia, Syria, Israel), Egypt, the Mediterranean World (Greece, Rome, Carthage, Phoenicia), and Europe.
• The emphasis on the highly integrated world of the classical period stresses 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, rather, closely tied to it.
• Social themes explore the family and the development of gender relations from hunting/gathering bands, to the rise of agriculture and the state, to the emergence of new forms of the family in late antiquity; the role of women; relations between rich and poor; systems of class and status; the relationship between public and private realms; popular culture and daily life; slaves and freedmen; practices of manumission; and relations between urban and rural, cultural insider and outsider, and high and popular culture.
  • Focus on family and gender relations throughout familiarizes students with this topic as it relates to ancient life.
• Cultural themes discuss religion (e.g., the religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome), games and festivals, urban lifestyles, leisure, art and architecture, literature (poetry, prose, history), philosophy and philosophers, education, and technology.
• Institutional themes examine the ideology of empires and states, non-state chiefdoms of early Europe, and the Christian church.
  • This 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.
• Political and military themes discuss 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, and the fall of the Roman Empire.
• Explores the birth of Western Culture and 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.”
  • Coverage of Persia provides students with insightful commentary on this region.

Pedagogical Features

• Boxed Features offer details on the origins of writing in Mesopotamia, human sacrifice, abortion, infanticide, and other important topics.
• Organizational flexibility enables instructors to emphasize the topics they choose with no loss of continuity.
• Chapter-opening Key Topics allow students to focus on important points for study and review.
• Glossary of key terms provides students with an easy reference for navigating the terminology used in the text.

New To This Edition

     ~Striking new illustrations now enhance coverage of Persia, the early Greek classical period, and the late Roman Empire.

Table of Contents

Preface
Maps

PART ONE: THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

Chapter 1: The Early Civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt
Why Mesopotamia?
The Agricultural Revolution
The State and Urban Revolution
Early Mesopotamian History: The Sumerian Period (3100—2000 B.C.)
The Egyptian Alternative: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Chapter 2: An Age of Empires: The Middle East, 2000—1000 B.C.
A Time of Turmoil: New Peoples East and West
Mesopotamia in the Age of Hammurapi
The Hittite Empire
The Egyptian Empire
Egypt in Decline
 
Chapter 3: The Middle East to the Persian Empire 
The New Peoples of the Middle East 
The Glory of Assyria and Babylon 
The Persians 

Religion and Culture in Israel 

PART TWO: THE GREEK WORLD

Chapter 4: The Emergence of Greek Civilization 
Geography and History 
The Origins of Greek Culture 
The Minoan and Mycenaean Ages 
The Mycenaean Age 
The Dark Ages 
Out of the Darkness: The Archaic Age 
The Example of Two Cities: Sparta and Athens 
Polis Society 
Culture and Society in the Archaic Age 

Chapter 5: The Wars of the Greeks 
Persians and Greeks 
The Military Situation after the Persian Wars 
The Great War between Athens and Sparta 
The Hegemony of Sparta and Thebes 

Chapter 6: Classical Athens 
The Early Classical Period (ca. 490—450 B.C.) 
The Classical Age, Part I (450—430 B.C.) 
The Later Classical Period (430—338 B.C.) 
Athenian Society 

Chapter 7: Philip, Alexander, and the Hellenistic World 
Backward Macedonia Challenges Greece 
The Genius of Philip 
The Orator and the King: Demosthenes and Philip 
Alexander the Great 
Campaigns in Central Asia (330—323 B.C.) 
Alexander’s Successors 
The State and Society in the Hellenistic World 
Hellenistic Society 
Culture and Religion in the Hellenistic World 
Greek High Culture Adapts to a New Environment 
Becoming Greek: Education in the New World 
The Hellenistic Age: Achievements and Limitations 

PART THREE: THE ROMAN WORLD

Chapter 8: Early Rome 
The Western Mediterranean and Early Italy 
The Latins and Early Rome 
The Republic 
The Social and Political Achievement of Early Rome: Consensus 

Chapter 9: The Building of an Empire 
The Growth of Rome in Italy 
The Punic Wars 
Roman Territorial Expansion after the Hannibalic War 
Society and the State in the Roman Republic 
An Estimate of Roman Society 

Chapter 10: The Transformation of the Roman Republic 
The Old Order Fades 
The Gracchan Revolution: Social and Political Context 
From the Gracchi to Augustus: The Roman Revolution 
The Fall of the Roman Republic  
 
Chapter 11: The Roman World from Augustus to the Third-Century Crisis 
The Reforms of Augustus 
Rounding Out the Empire 
The Severan Emperors 

Chapter 12: The Roman Peace 
Challenge and Response 
Society and the State in the Empire 
The Government, the Army, and Society 

Chapter 13: The Empire from the Third-Century Crisis to Justinian 
The Third-Century Crisis 
Political Anarchy 
Diocletian and Constantine 
The Emperor and the Administration 
The Army, the Empire, and the Barbarians 
The Collapse of the Western Empire 
The Rise of the Byzantine Empire  
 
Chapter 14: The Transformed Mediterranean 
History Moves Northward and Eastward 
The Transformation of the Classical Tradition 
The Empire and the Church Come to Terms 
The Christian Way of Life 
Civilizing the Barbarians 
Diverging Beliefs 
Islam and the Transformation of the Mediterranean 
Religious Legacies 
Epilogue 

Suggested Readings 
Glossary 
Index 

Courses

Ancient History  (Western & World History)
Ancient Near Eastern History  (Western & World History)

Previous Edition(s)

• Ancient World, The: A Social and Cultural History, 6/E
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  For courses in Ancient History (Ancient Near East - Egypt/Mesopotamia), Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome. 

   

  The Ancient World is a comprehensive, multiperspective, and integrated chronicle of the history of the ancient Mediterranean (from Sumer to the fall of Rome) exploring the distinctive forms society took in the ancient world—especially the unusual relationship between society and the state (unlike anything we encounter today) that characterized the social order of antiquity. By closely integrating social and cultural histories with the political, institutional, and military climates in which they unfolded, this text provides fascinating insights into family, gender relations, class structures, public vs. private realms, slavery, popular culture, religion, art, architecture, leisure styles, philosophy, science, and education—and their complex relationships to ideology and political events.

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D. Brendan Nagle, University of Southern California

Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles

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