The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, ...
To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE–500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and continuing into later periods.
Tradition holds that, long before Solomon erected his temple to early Israel's god on Mt. Moriah, Abraham (the father of three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) offered up his son Isaac (or Ishmael according to ...
ancient China the death of major cities normally had political rather than economic causes. Dynastic change and the creation of empires propelled the cyclic renewal of ... Wang, Haicheng, Writing and the Ancient State: Early China ...
Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE.
The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, ...
Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, A History of Greek Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1962–81, vols. I–VI. Hayashi, Takao, “Number Theory in India,” in Helaine Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, ...
The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, ...
The most comprehensive account yet of the human past from prehistory to the present.
The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, ...
... Europe, 1200–1500. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Feng Jiren. Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the ... Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Schmidt, P. R. Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism ...
... Europe, 1200–1500. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Feng Jiren. Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the ... Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Schmidt, P. R. Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism ...
The second book questions the extent to which the transformations of the modern world have been shared, focusing on social developments such as urbanization, migration, and changes in family and sexuality; cultural connections through ...
The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, ...
The first book examines structures, spaces, and processes within which and through which the modern world was created, including the environment, energy, technology, population, disease, law, industrialization, imperialism, decolonization, ...
... Istanbul they might become “dragomans,” placed in charge of trade or negotiations with their old home place. Venice ... Between Venice and Istanbul (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012). 28 Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar: From ...
The most comprehensive account yet of the human past from prehistory to the present.
The first book examines structures, spaces, and processes within which and through which the modern world was created, including the environment, energy, technology, population, disease, law, industrialization, imperialism, decolonization, ...
The first book examines structures, spaces, and processes within which and through which the modern world was created, including the environment, energy, technology, population, disease, law, industrialization, imperialism, decolonization, ...
Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE.