[PDF] Ancient Civilizations Of Western Asia And The Mediterranean eBook

Author : Zachary Anderson
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502605686

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

Author : Henk Dijkstra
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Reference Books
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 9780761477921

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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.

Author : Akira Tsuneki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811005540

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This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC.The editors specifically use the term "West Asia" since the "Middle East" is seen as an Eurocentric term. By using this term, the book hopes to mitigate potential bias (i.e. historical and Western) by using a pure geographical term. However, the "West Asia" region is identical to that of the narrower "Middle East," which encompasses modern Iran and Turkey from east to west and Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula from north to south.This volume assembles research from different disciplines, such as the natural sciences, archaeology and philology/linguistics, in order to tackle the question of which circumstances and processes these significant cultural phenomena occurred in West Asia. Scrutinizing subjects such as the relations between climate, geology and human activities, the origins of wheat cultivation and animal domestication, the development of metallurgy, the birth of urbanization and writing, ancient religious traditions, as well as the treatment of cultural heritage, the book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of West Asian Civilization that provided the common background to cultures in various areas of the globe, including Europe and Asia.These contributions will attempt to demonstrate a fresh vision which emphasizes the common cultural origin between Europe and West Asia, standing in opposition to the global antagonism symbolized by the theory of "Clash of Civilizations."

Author : Arthur Bernard Knapp
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN :

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* Explores the cultures of ancient Near East civilizations from prehistoric times to the death of Alexander the Great..* Encompasses Western Asia and Egypt, through the Eastern Mediterranean, to the borders of Greece..* Note: Knapp (unlike Jones, above) does not include coverage of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : D. G. Hogarth
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN :

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The Ancient East is historical research on the late Bronze age through the Iron Age in Asia, which studies the main developments of the five Eastern regions Asia Minor in the east, Armenia and Mesopotamia in the west as far as the mid-point of Iran, Syria in the center, and Arabia in the south in 2000 years BC.

Author : Christopher Scarre
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 9780367001704

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The study of civilization -- Theories of states -- Mesopotamia: the first cities (3500-2000 B.C.) -- Egyptian civilization -- South Asia: the Indus civilization -- The first Chinese civilizations -- Mesopotamia and the Levant (2000-1200 B.C.) -- Southwest Asia in the first millennium B.C. -- The first Aegean civilizations -- The Mediterranean world in the first millennium (1000-30 B.C.) -- Imperial Rome -- Northeast Africa: Kush, Meroe, and Aksum -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Divine kings in Southeast Asia -- Kingdoms and empires in East Asia (770 B.C.-A.D. 700) -- Lowland Mesoamerica -- Highland Mesoamerica -- The foundations of Andean civilization -- Andean States (200 B.C.-A.D. 1534).

Author : Joan Aruz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588394751

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The exhibition "Beyond Babylon : Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.," held in 2008 - 2009 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrated the cultural enrichment that emerged from the intensive interaction of civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. During this critical period in human history, powerful kingdoms and large territorial states were formed. Rising social elites created a demand for copper and tin, as well as for precious gold and silver and exotic materials such as lapis lazuli and ivory to create elite objects fashioned in styles that reflected contacts with foreign lands. This quest for metals--along with the desire for foreign textiles--was the driving force that led to the establishment of merchant colonies and a vast trading network throughout central Anatolia during the early second millennium B.C. Texts from palaces at sites from Hattusa (modern Bogazköy) in Hittite Anatolia to Amarna in Egypt attest to the volume and variety of interactions that took place some centuries later, creating the impetus for the circulation of precious goods, stimulating the exchange of ideas, and inspiring artistic creativity. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence for these far-flung connections emerges out of tragedy--the wreckage of the oldest known seagoing ship, discovered in a treacherous stretch off the southern coast of Turkey near the promontory known as Uluburun. Among its extraordinary cargo of copper, glass, and exotic raw materials and luxury goods is a gilded bronze statuette of a goddess--perhaps the patron deity on board, who failed in her mission to protect the ship. To explore the themes of the exhibition--art, trade, and diplomacy, viewed from an international perspective--a two-day symposium and related scholarly events allowed colleagues to explore many facets of the multicultural societies that developed in the second millennium B.C. Their insights, which dramatically illustrate the incipient phases of our intensely interactive world, are presented largely in symposium order, beginning with broad regional overviews and examination of particular archeological contexts and then drawing attention to specific artists and literary evidence for interconnections. In this introduction, however, their contributions are viewed from a somewhat more synthetic perspective, one that focuses attention on the ways in which ideas in this volume intersect to enrich the ongoing discourse on the themes elucidated in the exhibition.