Ancient History: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome

✍ Scribed by History, Captivating

• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome then keep reading...

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Three captivating manuscripts in one book:

• Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, Ancient Pyramids, Temples, Egyptian Mythology, and Pharaohs such as Tutankhamun and Cleopatra


• Ancient Greece: A Captivating Guide to Greek History Starting from the Greek Dark Ages to the End of Antiquity


• Ancient Rome: A Captivating Introduction to the Roman Republic, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, and The Byzantine Empire

Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include:

• Who Were Ancient EgyptiansTheir Origins, History, and Geography


• Who Held the Power: The Social Structure of Ancient Egypt


• Kings and their Military Power


• The Magnificent Pharaohs of the New Kingdom and Their Empire


• The Decay and End of the Egyptian Civilization


• A Romance, Politics, and Tragedy: The Story of Cleopatra VII


• The Religion, Mythology, and Rituals of Ancient Egyptians


• Funerary Beliefs and Rituals: Mummification and Afterlife


• The Architecture of Ancient Egypt: Temples and Pyramids


• And much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include:

• Dawn of the Dark Ages


• From Darkness to Democracy


• Olympic Origins


• Greece Grows from War to War


• The Fight for Democracy


• The Peloponnesian War


• Enter Alexander the Great


• Great Minds of Ancient Greece


• Roman Take-Over


• Cleopatra and her Consorts


• Hadrians Travels


• Gothic Raids on Greece


• Rise of Christianity


• End of Antiquity


• And much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 3 of this book include:

• The Seven Kings of Seven Hills: the Foundation of Rome and Its First Rulers


• The Early Republic


• The Punic Wars and Mediterranean Dominance: The Middle Republic


• Decay, Corruption, and Civil Wars: The Late Republic


• Gaius Julius Caesar, Crossing the Rubicon, and Death that Shook the City


• The Rise of First Roman Emperor


• Early Roman Empire: Princeps Augustus and Julio-Claudian Dynasty


• The Flavian Dynasty


• The Nerva-Antonine Dynasty


• Late Empire


• The Empire of Constantine


• Constantinian Dynasty


• Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire


• The Byzantine Millennium


• And much, much more!

So if you want to learn about ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome without having to read boring textbooks, click "buy now"!

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✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: the creation of the universe --
Peking man: early humans in China --
"Surprise and delight:" the discovery of China's first culture --
Longshan: China's first civilization --
Everybody talks about the weather: agriculture and oracles --
Dragon bones and hidden treasures: the Shang court --
"Heaven is brightly awesome:" the western Zhou era and the mandate of heaven --
Who's in charge?: the rise of the hegemons --
The story of Shensheng: sacrifice and statehood --
From bronze to plastic: crafts in everyday life --
A wise man and his followers: Confucius and Confucianism --
The way: Laozi --
The art of war: warfare in ancient China --
China goes imperial: the rise of the unified state --
Kings and commoners: Liu Bang and the founding of the Han dynasty --
Who's Chinese?: ethnic groups and China --
Hard work and humility: women in ancient China --
New ways of doing things: inventions and technology --
Power and personality: Wang Mang --
A new relationship with the gods: the rise of Daoism --
"A golden man": Buddhism and the Silk Road --
"Someone with the talent to command": a general takes charge --
A "barbarian" leader: the three kingdoms and Liu Yuan --
A foreign god unites China: Buddhism after the Han.