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03459aam a22004218i 4500 001 DB32EB2CEDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200903010031 008 191220t20202020mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019054707 020 $a 0674047176 020 $a 9780674047174 035 $a (OCoLC)1111388523 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a mm----- $a az----- $a aw----- $a mm----- 050 00 $a CB311 M24 2020 245 00 $a Making civilizations : $b the world before 600 / $c edited by Hans-Joachim Gehrke. 263 $a 2006 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 1206 pages cm. 490 1 $a A history of the world 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prehistory and ancient history / Hermann Parzinger -- Introduction -- The emergence of modern humans -- Sedentism, a productive economy, and group identity -- Innovations, upheavals, and complex societies -- Areas beyond advanced civilizations -- On time axes and axial ages -- Early civilizations of the ancient Near East: Egypt and Western Asia / Karen Radner -- Introduction -- Early states -- Writing everywhere: bureaucrats, men of letters, and trading companies -- Chariots and glass: new toys for royal brethren -- A new beginning: petty states and great empires -- The world of classical antiquity / Hans-Joachim Gehrke -- Introduction -- On the way to a new world: the Mediterranean and its environs -- Persians and Greeks: the world divided -- The Roman Republic -- The Hellenistic world -- The zenith and decline of the Roman Republic -- The Roman Empire and global unity -- Ancient China / Mark Edward Lewis -- Introduction -- Geographic background -- The archaic state: Shang and Zhou -- The warring states transition -- The first empires: Qin and Han -- Early cities -- The great families: Wei and Jin -- The military dynasties: Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, and Northern Wei -- The institutional religions: Daoism and Buddhism -- Medieval cities -- Early Imperial China and the outer world -- Reunification and the fall of the Sui dynasty -- South Asia and Southeast Asia / Axel Michaels -- Introduction -- Harappan civilization -- The arrival of the Indo-Aryans -- Vedic culture -- State structures and ascetic movements -- Between the great empires: transregional connections -- The classical age and the formation of Hinduism -- India's influence in East and Southeast Asia. 520 $a "From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-Joachim Gehrke, a distinguished group of scholars lays out latest findings about Neanderthals, the Agrarian Revolution, the founding of imperial China, the world of Western classical antiquity, and more"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Civilization, Ancient. 650 0 $a World history. 650 0 $a Classical antiquities. 651 0 $a Mediterranean Region $x Antiquities. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Antiquities. 651 0 $a China $x Antiquities. 651 0 $a South Asia $x Antiquities. 700 1 $a Gehrke, Hans-Joachim, $e editor. 830 0 $a History of the world (Belknap Press) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205012152.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB32EB2CEDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search