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(0)Daniel R Faust
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From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea,...
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India is considered one of the great ancient civilizations of the Old World. From the earliest settlements along the Indus River to the golden age of the Gupta Empire, the cultural contributions of ancient India are an important component of the human story. Readers will travel back in time and witness how religion, art, and literature helped craft the India we know today. Maps, full-color photographs, and biographies of important historical figures...
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Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq, the region known as Mesopotamia (Greek for "between two rivers") is often called the "cradle of civilization." The region is known for the rise of the first cities, as well as the invention of writing. Readers will discover that the various empires of the region, like Babylon and Sumer, made many important contributions to law, politics, mathematics, and agriculture.