商品簡介
The series, for high-school students and general readers, offers cross-disciplinary introductions to major civilizations that have flourished from antiquity to modern times, with a global perspective and a strong emphasis on daily life and social history. To facilitate comparative studies, each volume follows a common format, with chapters on such aspects as world events; geography; social class system and the economy; politics, law, and the military; the family and social trends; religion and philosophy; and science, technology, and health. Each volume also begins with a brief and necessarily select chronology of the entire world from about four million years BCE to 2000 BC to put the contents into a larger context. Volume eight covers the whole valley of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers from the first known urban construction to the conquest of the area by Alexander the Great. Ample monochrome illustrations are included. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
