History Of The Ancient And Medieval World Western Asia And The Mediterranean

This new, thoroughly revised edition examines world history from the emergence of the earliest humans about two million years ago all the way to the end of the Middle Ages. Following a generally chronological approach, the encyclopedia provides in-depth coverage of cultures, people, and events. - Publisher.

This new, thoroughly revised edition examines world history from the emergence of the earliest humans about two million years ago all the way to the end of the Middle Ages. Following a generally chronological approach, the encyclopedia provides in-depth coverage of cultures, people, and events. - Publisher.

This new, thoroughly revised edition examines world history from the emergence of the earliest humans about two million years ago all the way to the end of the Middle Ages. Following a generally chronological approach, the encyclopedia provides in-depth coverage of cultures, people, and events. - Publisher.

Discover the greatest early civilizations from Western Asia and the Mediterranean, including the Hittites, Minoans, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Israelites, Persians, and early Greeks.

This social history of war from the third millennium BCE to the 10th-century CE in the Mediterranean, the Near East and Europe (Egypt, Achamenid Persia, Greece, the Hellenistic World, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the early Islamic World and early Medieval Europe) with parallel studies of Mesoamerica (the Maya and Aztecs) and East Asia (ancient China, medieval Japan). The volume offers a broadly based, comparative examination of war and military organization in their complex interactions with social, economic and political structures, as well as cultural practices.