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1000 things you should know about ancient history, John Farndon ; consultant: Richard Tames

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1000 things you should know about ancient history

John Farndon ; consultant: Richard Tames

Introduction to ancient history considers many ancient cultures, contains many colorful illustrations and is presented in an engaging format

Origins of mankind; handyman -- Man, the hunter; later hunters; modern humans; cave painters -- Stone Ages; Bronze Age -- Iron Age -- Megaliths; archeology -- First farms; first cities -- "Between rivers"; indus civilization -- Great migrations; beginnings of Egypt -- Babylon -- Early China; Egyptian writing -- Egyptian lifestyles; ancient crete -- Pharaohs -- Olmecs and Chavins; Aryan India -- Semites; Assyrians -- Oceania; Egyptian afterlife -- Persia; weapons of war -- Tutankhamun -- Trojan Wars; Early Greece -- Mayans; Confucius -- Chinese technology -- Search for Troy; Greek city-states -- Zhou and Qin dynasties; famous generals -- Buddha; Greek thinkers -- Homer; early Americans -- Greek art -- What people ate; Phoenicians -- Polynesians; Greek mythology -- Alexander the Great -- Founding of Rome; Cleopatra -- Rome on the rise; Jesus -- Han dynasty; Roman towns -- Roman Empire -- Roman army; Roman way of life -- Famous disasters; Yamato -- Mauryan Empire; early North Americans -- Early Irish -- Julius Caesar; Guptas -- Gauls and Franks; Early Africa -- Celts; first Britons -- Fall of Rome; early Christians -- Byzantine Empire -- Sui, Tang, and Song; Barbarians -- Roman Britain; Muhammed -- What people wore -- Monks and monasteries; spread of Islam -- Fujiwaras; Anglo-Saxons -- Bulgars; Caliphs -- Alfred the Great; Berbers -- Vikings -- First Russians; Harun al-Rashid -- Holy Roman Empire; Toltecs -- Maoris; Charlemagne -- Magyars; Viking voyages -- Famous villains; Viking society -- Early English kings; first Scots -- Index and acknowledgments

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