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050	0	4	_aD23 _b.S665 1985
100	1		_aWedgwood, C. V. _q(Cicely Veronica), _d1910-1997., _e1
245	1	0	_aThe spoils of time : _ba world history from the dawn of civilization through the early Renaissance / _cC.V. Wedgwood.
250			_aFirst American edition.
260			_aGarden City, New York : _bDoubleday, _c(c)1985.
300			_aviii, 347 pages ; _c24 cm
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505	0	0	_aFrom the beginnings to circa 1500 B.C. The evolution of man -- _tThe beginnings of civilization, cave paintings, from hunting to agriculture, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, India, North China, Africa, the early cultures of the Americas -- _tSumeria, Malta, Egypt, the Indus valley -- _tSargon the Great, early codes of law -- _tEgypt: the Old Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom -- _tThe Hittite empire, the eighteenth dynasty, exodus -- _tCrete and Mycenae, the Phoenicians, the Jews -- _tCirca 1500-500 B.C. China: origins, the Shang, the Chou, spring and autumn, the warring states -- _tAryan invasion of India, Aryan culture and beliefs, early literature: Mahabharata, Bhagavadgita, the Hindu pantheon -- _tThe Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Jews -- _tGreece: Dorian invasions, Homer, Delphi and Olympia, Hesiod, Greek colonies, the Phoenicians, Greek civilization, the Etruscans, origins of Rome, Persia: Cyrus the Great -- _tThe great religions and ethical codes: Zoroaster, Ezra and the Temple of Solomon, Buddha, Mahavira, Confucius, Lao-tzu, Chinese philosophy -- _tCirca 500-300 B.C. The Persian empire, the Greek city-states, the Persian War (490-479), Athens under Pericles, the Peloponnesian War, Socrates, Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Epicurus, Zeno -- _tAlexander the Great -- _tIndia: Chandragupta Maurya, Asoka -- _tChina: Shih Huang Ti, the Han, Wu Ti, Ssu ma Chi'en, Chang Chi'en, Bactria and the silk road -- _tCirca 300 B.C.-A.D. 70. Rome and Carthage, slavery in Roman society, patricians and plebeians, the Gracchi, slave revolts, Marius and Sulla, Pompey, Crassus, Julius Caesar, and the fall of the republic, the reign of Augustus -- _tThe Hasmonean dynasty and the troubles of Judea, Jesus of Nazareth, Paul of Tarsus, the early Christians, Philo of Alexandria, the siege and fall of Jerusalem, rabbinic tradition -- _tCirca A.D. 50-500. China: the Later Han, the Three Kingdoms and the Six Dynasties, the Chin dynasty, religion, science, Japan and Korea -- _tIndia: the Kushan, further development of Buddhism, trade and industry, Fa-Hsien, the Guptas -- _tThe Roman empire in the second century -- _tPersia, the rise of the Sassanids, decline of Roman power, Mithraism and Christianity, Diocletian and Constantine -- _tThe fall of the Roman empire in the West -- _tThe Byzantine empire, Justinian, monasticism -- _tCirca 500-1000. Persia: the end of the Sassanids, Muhammad, the caliphate: Baghdad, Cordova, Cairo -- _tChina: the Sui, the T'ang, Southeast Asia: the Khmer -- _tJapan: Prince Shotoku, rise of the Fujiwara, the Nara epoch -- _tBritain, Byzantium and western Europe: Charlemagne -- _tThe Byzantine empire, further invasions of the West: the Vikings, Alfred the Great, Viking influence, growth of the feudal system, Otto the Great, resurgence of the Byzantine empire, Holy Russia -- _tThe Americas: Woodland culture, the Chavin culture, the Olmec, the Mochica, the Maya, Teotihuacan, Africa.
505	0	0	_aCirca 900-1200. North India from the Guptas to the Slave Kings: Harsha of Thanesar, Mahmud of Ghazni, Muhammad of Ghur, Marco Polo in south India, revival of Hinduism, Vishnu and Shiva, cave temples, Tantric Buddhism -- _tCh'an (Zen) Buddhism, China under the Sung: culture, economy, administration, the Southern Sung -- _tJapan: the Fujiwara, court life and culture, Shinto and Buddhism, the Kamakura age, the Samurai, Bushido -- _tFall of the Abbasid caliphate, Persia under the Seljuks, the Shiite caliphate of Cairo, the Assassins, Muslim expansion in Africa, Christians and Moors in Spain, El Cid -- _tThe Normans: in Normandy, in Italy and Sicily, in England -- _tChurch and state, cooperation and rivalry -- _tThe Byzantine empire and the Crusades -- _tCirca 1200-1450. The Mongols: Genghis Khan, China under Kublai Khan, Hulagu in Persia, Persian literature, the Golden Horde in Russia, Alexander Nevski -- _tChurch and state in Europe, economic revival, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry II and Becket, Innocent III, Frederick II, Boniface Virgin IslandsII, the papacy at Avignon, Franciscans and Dominicans -- _tGrowth of nation-states and their rulers: Louis IX of France, Charles of Anjou, Alfonso the Learned of Castile, Diniz of Portugal, England: Henry II, King John, Magna Carta, Henry III, Edward I, Wales, Ireland, Scotland: Malcolm Canmore, David I, Robert Bruce, Rudolf of Habsburg, Charles IV of Bohemia, Casimir III, the Hundred Years' War, the black death -- _tGrowth of cities in western Europe the Hanseatic league, Rome, the Italian cities, the early Renaissance, the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc, French literature and the arts, English literature, early religious reformers -- _tWestern travelers in China, Marco Polo, ibn-Batuta in Africa, India, and China, fall of the Yuan and rise of the Ming -- _tCirca 1350-1550. The decay of Byzantium, Hungary, Tamerlaine, the fall of Byzantium, Florence in flower, the spread of learning, the invention of printing -- _tChinese naval expeditions, Portuguese explorers: Gil Eanes, Nuno Tristao, Cadamosto, Diogo Cao, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America, Magellan -- _tThe Spaniards in the West Indies, the Aztecs in Mexico, the Inca in Peru, Cortes, Pizarro, New Spain and old Spain, the Habsburg succession and its consequences -- _tRenaissance and Reformation, Charles V and Luther, origins of the Reformation, town and country, conflict in Switzerland, the printing press, peasant revolts in Germany and Hungary, Luther and the Peasants' War, the Reformation spreads in Germany and Europe, multiplication of sects, translations of the Bible -- _tThe Ottoman Turks, Charles V and the Turks, Charles V and the French, sack of Rome, reform of the Catholic Church, the divine right of kings.
520	0		_aA history from "the first appearance of man and moves on to the eary civilizations of the Middle East, through the Indus Valley, to the Mediterranean, the Far East, Greece and Rome, the time of Christ, the Dark Ages, and on to the highest flowering of the Renaissance."
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650		0	_aWorld history.
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