The Ancient World: 1200 BC to AD 500 (History of Mankind, Cultural and Scientific Development, Volume 2)

xliii, 1048 pp. Volume 2 of 6. Illustrated with 80 pages of halftones, as well as maps and other line cuts. This volume describes the cultural and scientific progress of mankind at a key period of history: the millennium and a half which witnessed the formation of the great classical civilization of the West and the emergence of the Indian and Chinese civilizations in the East.