History - Civilization

"Apocalypse" means revelation, unveiling, or appearing. The Book of Revelation is about Jesus, not about the antichrist. The Bible says these things will happen shortly, and the translation implies that they will happen quickly.Yes, the antichrist will appear, and yes, the earth will go...

What if the most powerful prayers you will ever pray are the simplest ones? Many people believe they must use long, complicated, and perfect words to reach God. They struggle, wondering if they have said enough... or said it well enough. But throughout Scripture...

Australia: From Ancient Aboriginal Culture to a Modern Developed Nation is a comprehensive civilizational history that explores the long and layered journey of Australia-from one of the world's oldest continuous Indigenous cultures to a contemporary democratic, multicultural, and economically advanced nation. Rather than presenting...

Step into the rise and fall of a forgotten Bronze Age power that shaped empires, redirected wars, and altered the destiny of the ancient Near East. Few people know that the Mitanni kingdom once stood between Egypt, the Hittites, and Assyria, forcing these great...

This groundbreaking book invites readers on a captivating journey through the dining rooms, banquet halls, and humble kitchens of first-century Palestine, revealing how the seemingly ordinary act of breaking bread carried extraordinary cultural and religious significance. From lavish Herodian banquets to simple village suppers,...

ABOUT THE BOOK: - Eternal Bhārat describes India's civilizational engagement with the eternal and how this led to amazing insights into the nature of reality; insights, which got mapped into Bhārat's art and culture-across literature, theatre, music, dance, painting and architecture, and much more....

This book aims to fill a gap in current research on ancient emotions and to initiate an in-depth discussion on the topic of joy, its many undertones, its fragility, its concrete and metaphorical enemies, and its degree of legitimacy in different texts from classical...

In The History of Love, you will explore how marriage customs, passion, and romance evolved through different eras. From ancient tribes who relied on family bonds for survival to the glorious days of courtly love, each chapter reveals how love shaped societies and guided...

The third volume of the seminal trilogy "Swords of Faith", *Islamic Conquests in Europe*, plunges readers into a captivating exploration of how Islamic civilisation left an indelible imprint on Europe's early medieval tapestry. This instalment focuses on Al-Andalus-Muslim Spain-a vibrant cultural crossroads where the...

In this volume of the Eternal Plan, I continue laying out the plan written in Eternity past. I go back to the beginning to take a closer look at the first chapters of the book of Genesis to show what happened at the beginning...

Life In The Argentine Republic In The Days Of The Tyrants: Or Civilization And Barbarism is a historical account of Argentina during the mid-19th century, written by Argentine statesman, Domingo F. Sarmiento. The book was originally published in Spanish in 1845, and this English...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

In 1973, Robert J. Bull began the excavation of a vault on the south side of the Inner Harbor of Caesarea Maritima, Israel. The vault was one of a row of warehouses built to store goods unloaded from the harbor built by Herod the...

Author: Eugene DavidsonISBN-10: 0826262953ISBN-13: 9780826262950Publisher: University of Missouri PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2000Pages: 256Format: Hardcover

Paul Baweja's The Struggle of Women: Major Female Figures throughout World History is an insightful book. This succinct text explores who were some of the significant women that made a monumental contribution to world history, and what was their specific contribution. In contemporary times,...

The Goths--a rumoured people first known by history around the river Vistula in present Poland--was the people that more than other contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It was however also the Goths who preserved the Roman culture against other Germanic tribes....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

The present volume concludes the series of studies in Arabic literary papyri as envisaged in the Preface to Volume I. The studies reveal a steadily accelerating literary activity in both the religious and secular fields throughout the Umayyad period. Poets and scholars in the...

From the philosophical ruler Marcus Aurelius to the ambitious reformer Justinian, The Last Caesars charts the dramatic transformation of the Roman Empire during its final centuries of unity. This compelling narrative reveals how Roman imperial power evolved from the relatively accessible principate, where emperors...

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, Told Through the Stories That Made Them MatterWhat if you could travel through thousands of years of history, without ever leaving your chair? This two-in-one book brings together the dramatic rise and fall of world-shaping empires and...

Surrounded by the total devastation in Hiroshima in August 1945, Lieutenant Nobuto Omoto asked his ragtag group of recruits-young boys and infirm old men-if they had a home. "Hai! Hai! Hai!" they all replied, so he told them to go home. Then he was...

The Universal Clock reveals a global pattern hidden in plain sight - a shared astronomical, mathematical, and symbolic language encoded across the world's ancient sites. From Chaco Canyon to Giza, from Petra to Machu Picchu, from Easter Island to Polynesian star paths, civilizations separated...

Step back in time and test your memory. Enjoy this lively and engaging Baby Boomer Trivia Book packed with 500 questions drawn from the unforgettable years of 1945 to 1964. If you have lived through the era or simply love its music, movies, headlines,...

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like...

What if an empire that once filled the world's maps didn't vanish by accident? For centuries, Tartaria appeared clearly on European maps, stretching across vast lands from Eastern Europe deep into Asia. Then, almost without explanation, it disappeared. No recorded collapse. No defining war....

ABOUT THE BOOK Insane Story of Ferrari takes you on a high-octane journey through the rise of one of the most legendary names in automotive history. From Enzo Ferrari's stubborn dream of building race cars to the roaring dominance of Scuderia Ferrari on Formula...

Why does history still matter in a world moving faster than ever?In Why History Matters Today (From McCullough's Inspiration), author Mike Maxwell draws deeply from the timeless wisdom of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough to show why the lessons of the past remain vital...

At its peak, the Persian Empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen, and it was built on principles that most ancient rulers never considered.Cyrus the Great didn't just conquer. He issued the world's first known human rights declaration, freed enslaved peoples,...

A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024 We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help change the way you think? In this wide-ranging history,...

The study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the...

The Saljūqnāma, very probably penned between 1177 and 1186 by Zahīr al-Dīn Nīshāpūri, is one of the main sources of the political, social an cultural events in the history of the The Great Saljūq and the Saljūq o Iraq. Dedicated to Abū Ṭālīb Ṭughril...

What was the most important step in civilization? Alan Butler's answer is that it was when we began capturing wild sheep, domesticating and breeding them. Sheep were the mainstay of ancient cultures, by far the most important of the domesticated animals. Able to survive...

This book explores the practices of collectors of books, their networks and actions, as well as the book collections themselves, public and private, during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras to c.1900.Author: Annika BautzISBN-10: 1138593192ISBN-13: 9781138593190Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2018Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.10h x...

The roots of our modern world lie in this early civilisation, which saw the first urban society and the invention of writing. Postgate uses both historical and archaeological data to reveal this society's social and technological innovations.Author: Nicholas PostgateISBN-10: 1138170763ISBN-13: 9781138170766Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2015Pages:...

This volume analyses British exhibitions of Middle Eastern (particularly ancient Egyptian and Persian) artefacts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - examining how these exhibitions defined British self-image in response to the Middle Eastern 'other'. Author: Holly O'FarrellISBN-10: 1032426934ISBN-13: 9781032426938Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2023Pages:...

The Deh Luran Plain, nestled in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains close to the modern border between Iraq and Iran, had a long and rich prehistory, beginning with the local development of villages dependent upon rainfall farming and herding in the 8th millennium...

This book reports the results of an archaeological survey undertaken in southwestern Iran by a remarkable researcher: Dr. F.G.L. Gremliza. The author, Abbas Alizadeh, presents Gremliza's survey data and provides an analysis of the developmental implications.Author: Abbas AlizadehISBN-10: 0915703297ISBN-13: 9780915703296Publisher: U of M Museum...

Author: Dottie's Crazy Dot-To-DotsISBN-10: 1977954553ISBN-13: 9781977954558Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2017Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.23d

Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesISBN-13: 9798897101481Publisher: Pegasus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2026Pages: 528Format: Hardcover

What the World Can Learn from the Fall of the West is a dramatic title for a profound unease that has been festering for some time. In the age of Brexit, Trump, and the surge of international populism, the West has been plagued by...

Named a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Scientific American, and the Washington Independent Review of BooksProto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the...

A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth century The Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts...

This volume contains contributions from global experts on the nature of military courage and cowardice in ancient Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, Israel, and Egypt. Using ground-breaking concepts in human emotions (including fear), behavior (bravery, boldness, recklessness, flight), and motivation (tangible and intangible rewards), the book...

This companion explores the discipline of Roman prosopography from a wide variety of perspectives. The study of people and their relationships and connections, both as individuals and groups, lies at the heart of research into Roman society and politics. The essays in this volume...

Considering war from a female perspective, diverse case studies from the Ancient Near East to the Roman World show the many faces of women's involvement in war and campaigning and try to answer the question of why ancient Greek and Roman authors tend to...