Download or read book The Social Thought of the Ancient Civilizations written by Joyce Oramel Hertzler and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confucius from the Heart written by Yu Dan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in the U.S. and already one of China's all-time bestsellers, "Confucius from the Heart" stands as an inspirational work that teaches readers how to apply Confucian wisdom to their everyday lives. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Ancient Cities written by Greg Woolf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over the centuries that followed, however, an extraordinary series of civilizations grew up around the Inland Sea. They included those of the Greeks and Romans, but also others created by Etruscans and Phoenicians, by Tartessians and Lycians, and eventually by many others. At the heart of all these cultures was the city. Most ancient cities were tiny by modern standards, but they were the building blocks of all the states and empires of classical antiquity, the places where new literatures and art forms were created, the motors of history and the most fiercely contested prizes of warfare. The greatest cities--Athens and Corinth, Syracuse and Marseilles, Alexandria and Ephesus, Antioch and Carthage, Rome and Byzantium--became the powerhouses of successive ancient societies. And then, for reasons that remain mysterious, the cities withered away, leaving behind evocative ruins that have fascinated and inspired so many who came after. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities tells the story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Greg Woolf provides a rich narrative history of the ancient Mediterranean city, and attempts to solve the puzzles about its rapid emergence and equally rapid decline, making comparisons along the way with contemporary urban experience. Containing dozens of illustrations, with sidebar commentaries on specific urban themes, this book will appeal to all students and general readers of ancient history.
Download or read book Voices of the Rocks written by Robert M. Schoch and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could the Egyptian Sphinx have been built many centuries earlier than conventional history would have us believe? Could the great natural disasters that propelled the evolution of life on Earth have played a dominant role as well in the rise and fall of civilizations? Could Earth have been home to civilizations far greater in number -- and far older -- than orthodox researchers have suspected? In Voices of the Rocks, Dr. Robert M. Schoch examines these and other crucial questions about our past and shows how the answers can guide us in the future. In 1990, Robert Schoch, a scientist and tenured university professor, traveled to Egypt and conducted geological testing to evaluate the accepted date for the construction of the Great Sphinx of Giza. His research revealed that the Sphinx is actually thousands of years older than previously supposed, a discovery that upended the standard history of ancient Egypt. Following the intellectual trail uncovered by his redating of the Sphinx, Schoch became convinced that we are in the midst of a profound scientific paradigm shift. The predominant notion that our species inhabits a slow-changing, steady-state planet is falling by the wayside. Instead, we are coming to see that the history of Earth, all living beings, and human civilizations comprises a series of stops and starts, in which equilibrium abruptly ends during a sudden severe catastrophe, like the extraterrestrial impact that initiated the extinction of the dinosaurs. Meteors, asteroids, and comets are potential sources of such disasters, as are shifts in Earth's axis, movements of the continents, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. According to Dr. Schoch, Earth'slong, catastrophic history has obscured and obliterated evidence of lost civilizations. But the traces remain for those who know where to look and what to look for. At its core, Voices of the Rocks is the story of Schoch's own search, his fascinating discoveries, and the warnings we must heed if we wish to survive whatever catastrophes the future has in store for us.
Download or read book The Life in Ancient Times written by T. L. Haines and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt, Greece and Italy were the fountain heads of our civilization and the source of our knowledge; to them we can trace, link by link, the origin of all that is ornamental, graceful and beautiful. It is therefore a matter of greatest interest to get an intimate knowledge of the original state, and former perfection, the grandeur, magnificence and high civilization of these countries, as well as of the homes, the private and domestic life, the schools, churches, rites, ceremonies, etc. Pompeii Amusements Domestic Life Domestic Utensils Employment Troy Nineveh and Babylon Religion or Mythology Fine Arts Literature Tombs and Catacombs Truth of the Bible
Download or read book Competition in the Ancient World written by Nick Fisher and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the earliest human societies and the Assyrian and Aztec empires. Papers on Greek history explore the idea of competitiveness as peculiarly Greek, the intense and complex quarrel at the heart of Homer's Iliad, and the importance of formal competitions in the creation of new political and social identities in archaic Sicyon and classical Athens. Papers on the Roman world shed fresh light on Republican elections, through a telling parallel from Renaissance Venice, on modes of competitive display of wealth and power evident in elite villas in Italy in the imperial period, and on the ambiguities in the competitive self-representations of athletes, sophists and emperors.
Download or read book The Future Has an Ancient Heart written by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist cultural historian Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum caps her previous work with The Future has an Ancient Heart, a scholarly study of the transformative legacy of African origins and values of caring, sharing, healing, and vision carried by African migrants throughout the world. Birnbaum focuses on the long endurance of these values from the first human communities in south and central Africa, ones that Africans manifested in the region of the African mediterranean landmass that later separated Africa from Europe and Asia when the ice melted and waters rose. These migrants reached every continent and later became spiritual as well as geograpical migrations back to Africa, from ancient times to the transformative present. Using the same methods as her teaching, Birnbaum employs a mutual learning process in her work to help us think about our own ancestral story, adding to the wisdom we need to surmount contemporary crises and give us the energy to help bring a more equal and just world into being. Her methodologies are grounded on empirical techniques of science and the social sciences and yet leave openings for the liminal knowledge that resides underneath and beyond boundaries of established religions, secular ideologies, and conventional science. A true work of transformation, The Future has an Ancient Heart opens the door to new possibilities within our world.
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations written by Dr. Brian Fagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on many avenues of inquiry: archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and on both historical and ethnohistorical records; Ancient Civilizations, 3/e provides a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and a brief summary of the way in which they were discovered.
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations written by Chris Scarre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations and the great powers in the Near East, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, the Mediterranean world in the first millennium, Imperial Rome, northeast Africa, the divine kings in southeast Asia, and empires in East Asia, as well as early states in the Americas and Andean civilization. Ancient Civilizations includes a number of features to support student learning: a wealth of images, including several new illustrations; feature boxes which expand on key sites, finds and written sources; and an extensive guide to further reading. With new perceptions of the origin and collapse of states, including a review of the issue of sustainability, this fourth edition has been extensively updated in the light of spectacular new discoveries and the latest theoretical advances. Examining the world’s pre-industrial civilizations from a multidisciplinary perspective and offering a comparative analysis of the field which explores the connections between all civilizations around the world, Scarre and Fagan, both established authorities on world prehistory, provide a valuable introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity.
Download or read book The Heart of Rome written by Jan H. Blits and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan H. Blits' The Heart of Rome: Ancient Rome's Political Culture examines the political activities and institutions of pre-Imperial Rome in conjunction with the habits of the hearts and the minds of the Romans. Blits emphasizes treating the writings of ancient historians of Rome as works of thoughtful reflection rather than as works of technical research.
Download or read book Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Civilizations written by Kate Kelly and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of early medicine is one of magic and sorcery, religion and prayers, shamans and surgeons, and ingenuity and experimentation. All manner of successes and failures also dot the backdrop of early medicine. The health challenges of the time were many, ranging from near-fatal accidents to a wide variety of mysterious illnesses. Despite very little understanding of how the body worked or why people became sick, primitive people still devised successful methods to help heal the ill and injured.
Download or read book War and Society in the Roman World written by Dr John Rich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body, from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, through to the Principate, when it was confined to professional soldiers and expansion largely ceased, and finally on to the Late Empire and the Roman army's eventual failure.
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations written by Chris Scarre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Valley, Shang China, and the Maya. It also addresses subsequent developments in Southwest Asia, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, Greece and Rome, the first states of sub-Saharan Africa, divine kings and empires in East and Southeast Asia, and the Aztec and Inka empires of Mesoamerica and the Andes. It includes a number of features to support student learning: a wealth of images, including several new illustrations; feature boxes which expand on key sites, finds, and written sources; and an extensive guide to further reading. With new perceptions of the origin and collapse of states, including a review of the issue of sustainability, this fifth edition has been extensively updated in the light of spectacular new discoveries and the latest theoretical advances. Examining the world’s pre-industrial civilizations from a multidisciplinary perspective and offering a comparative analysis of the field which explores the connections between all civilizations around the world, this volume provides a unique introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity. It will prove invaluable to students of Archaeology.
Download or read book The Heart in Antiquity written by Fabio Zampieri and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book represents the first systematic investigation on ancient cardiology, which includes the first civilizations of human history, such as those flourished in Mesopotamia, Pharaonic Egypt, Vedic India, and China. It includes also major pre-Hispanic civilizations at their apex, namely the Maya, Aztec and Inca, given that they shared fundamental features with the first ones. Finally, it closes with Greek medicine because it represents crucial advancements which paved the way to modern cardiology. Nothing similar have been previously attempted, and we believe that just this feature represents an important value of this work. The cardiovascular system was not well understood anywhere in antiquity. The heart and vessels were viewed as system of conduits containing all kind of physiological and pathological fluids, such as blood, sperm, sweat, urine, and feces. Arteries and veins were not distinguished from either an anatomical or a physiological point of view. Circulation was far from being understood. After millennia of ignorance, William Harvey, in 1628, demonstrated that the heart was a pump and its function was to push blood in the systemic circulation. This is rightly considered the dawn of modern cardiovascular medicine. Consequently, all ideas, theories and practices of ancient medicine were reduced to unimportant superstitions. Historians of medicine, adapting to that 'dogma', relegated pre-Harveian cardiology to roughs notes, preventing a proper historical evaluation of many centuries of cardiovascular conceptions and practices. All the ancient civilizations investigated in that book shared the conviction that the heart was the biological and spiritual center of the body, as the seat of emotions, mind, will, vital energy and the soul. That the heart maintained a special role both in religion and in medicine across millennia, surviving from cultural and scientific revolutions, deserves to be investigated and, possibly, explained. During the last decades, new advancements in cardiovascular and neurological physiology and pathology, shed new light on ancient ideas. Researchers are focusing on the so-called brain-heart axis, which demonstrate how these organs are strictly interconnected. Moreover, the role of the heart in emotions is becoming even more important. Indeed, ancient conceptions about the heart are founding a new validation in the physiological and neurological ground. Therefore, a first attempt of rediscovering the earliest theories and practices of cardiovascular medicine couldn't wait any longer. Finally, the celebration for the eight centuries of the University of Padua (1222-2022), represented the best occasion to undertake such an ambitious project. We hope to have been able to reach the goal, at least in the form of an original work which might inspire further researches and discoveries."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations written by A.J. Kingston and published by A.J. Kingston. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the Secrets of Ancient Civilizations! 🌟 Introducing the "Ancient Civilizations" Book Bundle 🌟 Embark on an extraordinary journey through time with our captivating book bundle, "Ancient Civilizations: Mayan History, The Aztecs, and Inca Empire." This immersive collection takes you on an adventure of discovery, unearthing the mysteries, unraveling the secrets, and unveiling the lost treasures of three remarkable civilizations. 📚 Book 1 - "Mayan Mysteries Unearthed: A Journey into Ancient Civilization" Step into the world of the enigmatic Maya, a civilization that thrived in the lush jungles of Mesoamerica. Explore their mysterious origins, decode the intricacies of their calendar, and delve into the heart of their society. Uncover the secrets of Tikal, the city of the gods, and experience the allure of Mayan culture. 📚 Book 2 - "The Aztec Enigma: Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Civilization" Journey to the heart of Tenochtitlan, the jewel of the Aztec Empire. Immerse yourself in their intricate religious beliefs, their awe-inspiring calendar system, and the world of blood and sacrifice. Follow in the footsteps of conquistadors in search of elusive secrets that have intrigued historians for centuries. 📚 Book 3 - "The Inca Empire: Lost Treasures of a Remarkable Civilization" Venture high into the Andes and discover the awe-inspiring Inca Empire. Trace the rise and fall of this mountainous civilization, from the heart of Cusco to the worship of the Sun God. Join us on a quest for lost treasures, delve into the legacy of the Spanish conquest, and witness the enduring influence of the Inca in modern Peru. Why Choose the "Ancient Civilizations" Book Bundle? 🌎 Dive into History: Immerse yourself in the captivating worlds of the Mayans, Aztecs, and Inca, and gain a deeper understanding of their cultures, traditions, and legacies. 🔍 Uncover Mysteries: Explore the enigmas that have puzzled historians for generations, from Mayan calendars to Aztec rituals and Inca treasures. 📖 Engaging and Informative: Each book is meticulously researched and beautifully written to provide an immersive and educational reading experience. 🗺️ Travel Through Time: Transport yourself to ancient cities, temples, and empires as you journey through the pages of these books. 🎁 Perfect Gift: Share the gift of knowledge and adventure with friends and family who have a passion for history, archaeology, or ancient civilizations. Don't miss the opportunity to embark on this timeless adventure through the pages of "Ancient Civilizations." Whether you're a history enthusiast, a curious explorer, or a lover of rich storytelling, this book bundle offers something for everyone. Get ready to uncover the mysteries, unlock the secrets, and immerse yourself in the lost treasures of the Mayans, the Aztecs, and the Inca. Order your "Ancient Civilizations" book bundle today and embark on a journey through the annals of time!
Download or read book F A I T H Finding Answers in the Heart written by Tammy Billups and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient civilizations believed that the heart was the source of our creative powers and intuition. The authors of this book share the stories that helped them triumph and follow their dreams. These "ordinary" women serve as extraordinary examples of what is possible for us all. All it takes is F.A.I.T.H. - Finding Answers in the Heart.
