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Generally recognized as the standard text for courses in the history of the ancient world, The Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History, Sixth Edition incorporates the latest scholarship and provides new learning aids for students: The two final chapters have been reorganized to reflect current scholarly understanding of Late Antiquity, including increased coverage of early Byzantium and Islam. Key Topics now open each chapter, allowing students to easily discern important themes and developments. Review Questions now end each chapter, helping students to critically assess the material they just read. A Glossary of key terms is now found at the end of the text. Book jacket.

Preface	p. vii
Illustrations	p. ix
Maps	p. xii
The Ancient Middle East
The Early Civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt	p. 1
Why Mesopotamia?	p. 1
The Agricultural Revolution	p. 3
The State and Urban Revolution	p. 5
Early Mesopotamian History: The Sumerian Period (3100-2000 B.C.)	p. 8
The Egyptian Alternative... MORE: The Old and Middle Kingdoms	p. 19
An Age of Empires: The Middle East, 2000-1000 B.C.	p. 31
A Time of Turmoil: New Peoples East and West	p. 31
Mesopotamia in the Age of Hammurapi	p. 31
The Hittite Empire	p. 36
The Egyptian Empire	p. 38
Egypt in Decline	p. 46
The Middle East to the Persian Empire	p. 49
The New Peoples of the Middle East	p. 49
The Glory of Assyria and Babylon	p. 56
The Persians	p. 62
Religion and Culture in Israel	p. 68
The Greek World
The Emergence of Greek Civilization	p. 79
Geography and History	p. 79
The Origins of Greek Culture	p. 80
The Minoan and Mycenaean Ages	p. 81
The Mycenaean Age	p. 85
The Dark Ages	p. 90
Out of the Darkness: The Archaic Age	p. 93
The Example of Two Cities: Sparta and Athens	p. 99
Polis Society	p. 102
Culture and Society in the Archaic Age	p. 108
The Wars of the Greeks	p. 121
Persians and Greeks	p. 121
The Military Situation after the Persian Wars	p. 127
The Great War between Athens and Sparta	p. 130
The Hegemony of Sparta and Thebes	p. 137
Classical Athens	p. 141
The Early Classical period (ca. 490-450 B.C.)	p. 141
The Classical Age, Part I (450-430 B.C.)	p. 145
The Later Classical Period (430-338 B.C.)	p. 154
Athenian Society	p. 163
Philip, Alexander, and the Hellenistic World	p. 184
Backward Macedonia Challenges Greece	p. 184
The Genius of Philip	p. 185
The Orator and the King: Demosthenes and Philip	p. 186
Alexander the Great	p. 188
Campaigns in Central Asia (330-323 B.C.)	p. 192
Alexander's Successors	p. 193
The State and Society in the Hellenistic World	p. 195
Hellenistic Society	p. 198
Culture and Religion in the Hellenistic World	p. 204
Greek High Culture Adapts to a New Environment	p. 214
Becoming Greek: Education in the New World	p. 226
The Hellenistic Age: Achievements and Limitations	p. 229
The Roman World
Early Rome	p. 231
The Western Mediterranean and Early Italy	p. 231
The Latins and Early Rome	p. 239
The Republic	p. 242
The Social and Political Achievement of Early Rome: Consensus	p. 249
The Building of an Empire	p. 251
The Growth of Rome in Italy	p. 251
The Punic Wars	p. 261
Roman Territorial Expansion after the Hannibalic War	p. 265
Society and the State in the Roman Republic	p. 270
An Estimate of Roman Society	p. 285
The Transformation of the Roman Republic	p. 287
The Old Order Fades	p. 287
The Gracchan Revolution: Social and Political Context	p. 297
From the Gracchi to Augustus: The Roman Revolution	p. 302
The Fall of the Roman Republic	p. 309
The Roman World from Augustus to the Third-Century Crisis	p. 320
The Reforms of Augustus	p. 320
Rounding Out the Empire	p. 326
The Severan Emperors	p. 332
The Roman Peace	p. 336
Challenge and Response	p. 336
Society and the State in the Empire	p. 338
The Government, the Army, and Society	p. 361
The Empire from the Third-Century Crisis to Justinian	p. 368
The Third-Century Crisis	p. 368
Political Anarchy	p. 370
Diocletian and Constantine	p. 372
The Emperor and the Administration	p. 376
The Army, the Empire, and the Barbarians	p. 380
The Collapse of the Western Empire	p. 382
The Rise of the Byzantine Empire	p. 385
The Transformed Mediterranean	p. 387
History Moves Northward and Eastward	p. 387
The Transformation of the Classical Tradition	p. 390
The Empire and the Church Come to Terms	p. 391
The Christian Way of Life	p. 396
Civilizing the Barbarians	p. 403
Diverging Beliefs	p. 405
Islam and the Transformation of the Mediterranean	p. 406
Religious Legacies	p. 409
Epilogue	p. 411
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