Physical Description:150 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. print
Publisher:New York : Rosen Pub., 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The rise and fall of a world power : from Macedonia to the Diadochoi -- Judea and Arabia before the Romans -- Carthage : world power and rival of Rome -- The Etruscans : the league to the Roman Empire -- Rome : from the beginnings to the end of the republic -- The rule of the generals and the imperial Rome -- From Constantine to the rise of Byzantium -- Christianity -- Armenia and Asia Minor from the Diadochoi to the Romans -- Persia under the Parthians and the Sassanians -- Celts, Slavs, and Germanic tribes -- The great migration of peoples -- The nomad empires of the Eurasian steppes -- Ancient India -- China's first emperors of the Qin and han dynasties -- The first kingdoms in North and Northeast Africa -- Glossary -- For more information -- For further reading -- Index.