A story in an engaging and lively story that shows the commonalities in the cultures that gave own.This birth to our first volume is a courageous series tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the coast much of China, while giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to people’s lives that embody the abstract statements about
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review by Kurt A. Johnson I am a student of ancient Mesopotamia, so I’m always checking on the new book on ancient history. This book is full of fat little about the ancient world and classical. Organized in the form of discrete trial, the evidence is then presented by subject – The Edge of History, Innovations, fight, empires and identities – the processes are arranged in chronological order. Each test is very interesting and informative, and along the way the reader is treated to a lot of photos, calendars and postcards. />
Overall, I found this book is an excellent book, which offers the reader a good idea of the ancient history of the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, India and China. (The latter two are often underrepresented in old books.) I think much of this book, and I recommend it to all students of history.
review by Michael Gunther After the success of his series in the history of homeschool children, Susan Wise Bauer offers this scale to 750 (pages) introduction to ancient history for adults. Bauer, a historian “Print” for which the record is primordial, tells the story of five ancient civilizations – Egypt, Mesopotamia, Middle East, Greece and Rome, India and China – who have left written the most extensive. His story focuses entirely on political history kingdoms, empires and their leaders fail and this writer with artists, poets, philosophers, architects, mathematicians or, much less in archeology, anthropology, sociology or other disciplines many that have revolutionized the study of history beyond the last 50 years.
rulers and empires is his only story, But She Said well, the book is enjoyable reading, and is the author deserves full credit for the immense effort involved in producing a volume, and precision (undeniably the product of years of sleepless nights spent to digest hundreds of primary reference sources) of his narrative. I loved the book and enjoyed reading. But it is very limited. There is a kind of imbalance, and tunnel vision, which becomes more obvious as you think. This is a book that has no fewer than eight entries on index-Merodach Baladan an obscure eighth century BC king of Babylon, but no word on Euclid, and only two sentences on the Parthenon!
In summary, the volume of Bauer, and writing skills, perversely omits almost all artistic and intellectual results of the ancient world, only that the world is truly great and worthy of study.
review by Cesar Gonzalez Rouco http://www.historytextbook. org/wp- content/plugins/wprobot3/images/4.png “/> If political history is the history of politics (and often military) events and leaders, who ‘s is certainly a political history. He had the advantage of presenting not only in Mesopotamia and in Egypt and Greece and Rome, but also China and India, which shows the progress of each of the ancient world in parallel. And ‘concise, interesting and very readable. />
Of course, the author’s approach involves choosing a field in some way: no social or economic history is included, although some religious flavor, because it uses the master myths of every civilization as clues to understanding its policy. With this in mind, I also want to read (as a supplement to this book) “The history of government. Volume I. oldest monarchies and empires” of SE Finer, “Life after death. A story beyond religion in the West “by Alan F. Segal and “Gem in the sowing of Indian civilization Affairs Lotus.The” Abraham Eraly, just to name a few.
review by Shawn M. Ritchie This is perhaps the best general introduction to ancient history for the layperson, I do not even read. Bauer impresses out the door saying it will be an emphasis) on the personalities and their roles in ancient cultures and b) ignore the entire history of civilization pre-literate. These two decisions are excellent for the writer, in general, follow the history of introduction, no matter how modern scholars can disturb the market.
choose to simply accept that the vast majority of our available documents include the leaders of the ancient era, to the detriment of nearly all the documentation on the life of the common man, Bauer weaves a narrative that covers what we know in a reasonably lively, fashion is changing rapidly, pulling in this difficult task to recognize the gaps in historical data, without getting bogged down in them. The main engines of ancient times are alive as the author takes us on a journey through the list of Sumerian kings, the Bible as a historical document, the disappointing lack of documents of ancient Indian civilization, and the wealth of Greek and Roman sources. The small, manageable chapters each cover a song is logically divided into history of a particular region, with useful charts at the end of each projection of events overlapping in the region between the current chapter and time for the same region of the previous chapter.
Bauer’s writing style is commendable. He has a remarkable sense of phrasing that keeps the reader moves through the centuries at a rapid pace. Some of his notes are worthy of laughter, which helps to break the global slog of war, drought, famine, slavery, et al.
Although not full of new interpretations, this book is exactly what it says today: a comprehensive overview of the ancient period of human history. As each culture discovered the ability literally follow their story, it is folded in the broader context of the narrative of the book. From his end, when the Roman Empire under Constantine was a Christian, the reader will have absorbed Have a good comprehensive overview of how a high level of humanity how developed a time Each group has started to make his letters.
Of course this means that the entire Western Hemisphere, and large areas of Africa and Asia (Egypt, China and India for some excluded) were simply not included in the story. Before the screams of Eurocentrism Unleashed, please consider that this is substantially within the author for the work were once a literate society so that we know today has been folded in history. Otherwise, we just try to guess how and why the reasons for the company, and make it work best left to specialists in other fields. CRAM for a few pages on what we think that the Indians or proto-Japanese were thousands of years before having any demonstrable record book simply moved on. />
As n is the volume beginning of what promises to be an excellent and comprehensive history of the world, everyone has their cause as their time, I’m sure. For now, I will give this book my highest recommendation for those who wish to acquire knowledge of the ancient world who have never discussed before, those who seek to refresh the memories of mold Egypt, Greece and Rome from their upper-class history of the school, or simply those who love the history of man has well said.
review Townliand ML My son and I have read and enjoyed Bauer Story World Series, so when I saw that this book came out, I pre-ordered. I thought it might be over our heads, but we enjoyed it immensely. The hanged 11 years and read 18 chapters of the first day! I’m not a history buff, but I teach my children if they are always looking for good books. I found the history of antiquity to be much more readable, entertaining, and cohesion of the high school and college history books we used earlier. This book could be used to homeschool high school, but need not be a homeschool to enjoy. I think anyone with an interest in ancient history would enjoy this book. The plethora of maps and calendars it is really easy to see links. Highly recommended!