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The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE
The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE
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  • The first book to provide a comprehensive and balanced coverage of all of Afro-Eurasia
  • Integrates political, social, and cultural history, making excellent use of primary sources
  • Discusses controversial issues such as the origins of the Indo-European culture and how historians use the Bible as a historical source

   
This book provides the first comprehensive history of Afro-Eurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE. The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word: connectivity. The growth in connectivity during this period was marked by increasing political, economic, and cultural interaction throughout the region, and the replacement of the numerous political and cultural entities by a handful of great empires at the end of the period. In the process, local cultural traditions were replaced by great traditions rooted in lingua francas and spread by formalized educational systems. 
   
This process began with the collapse of the Bronze Age empires in the east and west, widespread population movements, and almost chronic warfare throughout Afro-Eurasia, while the cavalry revolution transformed the nomads of the central Asian steppes into founders of tribal confederations assembled by charismatic leaders and covering huge territories. At the same time, new artistic and intellectual movements appeared, including the teachings of Socrates, Confucius, the Buddha, and Laozi. Increased literacy also allowed people from a wide range of social classes such as the Greek soldier Xenophon, the Indian Buddhist emperor Ashoka, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and elite women such as the poetess Sappho, the Christian martyr Perpetua, and the scholar Ban Zhao to create literary works. 
   
When the period ended in 300 CE, conditions had changed dramatically. Temperate Afro-Eurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dominated by a handful of empires--Rome, Sassanid Persia, and Jin Empire-that ruled more than half the world's population, while an extensive network of trade routes bound them to Southeast and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and made possible the spread of new book based religions including Christianity, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism, thereby setting the stage for the next millennium of Afro-Eurasian history.

Index: 

Editors' Preface 
Preface
Chapter 1 The New World of the Early First Millennium BCE (Ca. 12th Century BCE - 11th Century BCE)
Chapter 2 The Early Iron Age (Ca. 10th-7th Centuries BCE)
Chapter 3 East Meets West: The Rise of Persia (Ca. 6th-5th Centuries BCE)
Chapter 4 The New World of the Macedonian Kingdoms (Ca. 4th -2nd Centuries BCE)
Chapter 5 The Rise of the Peripheries: Rome and China (Ca. 3rd-2nd Centuries BCE)
Chapter 6 A New Order in Afro-Eurasia (Ca. 2nd Century BCE-2nd Century CE)
Chapter 7 Crisis and Recovery (3rd Century CE)
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Acknowledgments

About the author: 

Stanley M. Burstein is Professor Emeritus of History and former chair of the History Department at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author or co-author of seventeen books, and a past-president of the Association of Ancient Historians.

"This is a great book and one I highly recommend; it is a testimony to the erudition and clear writing style of its author and would be a solid addition to any library whether for students or faculty just starting out or those who want a refresher on just how integrated and foundational the period covered by this book was in the past and continues to be as it reaches to the present." -- David M. Kalivas, Middlesex Community College, World History Connected
   

"A helpful source for students of the ancient world, broadly defined....Recommended."--CHOICE

Product details

ISBN : 9780199336135

Author: 
Stanley M. Burstein
Pages
176 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
156 x 235 mm
Pub date
Jul 2017
Series
New Oxford World History
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The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE

The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE

The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE