Civilization VI

The Greeks and Greek Civilization

In 1872 Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world and tyrannical state with minimal personal freedoms. This landmark culmination of 30 years of scholarship offers...

Civilization of the Middle Ages

Now completely revised and expanded, this comprehensive general history of the Middle Ages centers on medieval culture and religion rather than on political history, and retains the powerful narrative flow that made the earlier edition so accessible and exciting.

Sumer: The History of the Cities and Culture that Established Ancient Mesopotamia's First Civilization

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted

De Lafayette Mega Encyclopedia of Anunnaki, Ulema-Anunnaki, Their Offspring, Their Remnants And Extraterrestrial Civilization on Earth (Maximillien De Lafayette)(Brožovaná)

Everything you wanted to know about the Anunnaki's Civilization in the Ancient World, the genetic creation of Man, and our origin from the beginning of time to the present. Vol.1 The world's first, largest, most authoritative and complete encyclopedia on the Anunnaki-Ulema, the Anunnaki, their offsp...

Story of Egypt - The Civilization that Shaped the World

The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that have shaped the world. It is full of spectacular cities and epic stories--an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, heroines, villains, artisans, and pioneers. Professor

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- And Western Civilization

On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two mil...

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War in Human Civilization (Azar Gat)(Brožovaná)

Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? In this truly global study of w...

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization

The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization," owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BCE. In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Ci...

The Fabric of Civilization - Virginia Postrel, Basic Books

The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders.Since the first thread was spun, fabric has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civil...