{"id":49892,"date":"2025-01-30T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/ancient-worlds-an-epic-history-of-east-and-west\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:17:29","slug":"ancient-worlds-an-epic-history-of-east-and-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/ancient-worlds-an-epic-history-of-east-and-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">$20.49<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Jan 30, 2025 13:17:29 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/0091958814?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n  Historian Michael Scott challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers and empires that swept across Central Asia to India and China \u2013 resulting in a truly global vision of ancient history.<\/p>\n<p>With stunning range and richness Ancient Worlds&lt;\\i&gt; illustrates how the great powers and characters of antiquity shared ambitions and crises, ways of thinking and forms of governing: connections that only grew stronger over the centuries as political systems evolved, mighty armies clashed, universal religions were born and our modern world was foreshadowed.<\/p>\n<p>Scott focuses on three epochal \u2018moments\u2019 across the ancient globe, and their profound wider significance: from 509-8 BCE (birth of Athenian democracy and Rome\u2019s republic, also the age of Confucius\u2019s teachings in China); to 218 BCE (when Hannibal of Carthage challenged Rome and China saw its first emperor); to 312 CE, when Constantine sought to impose Christianity on the Roman world even as Buddhism was pervading China via the vast trading routes we now know as the \u2018Silk Roads.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A major work of global history, Michael Scott\u2019s enthralling journey challenges the way we think about our past, re-draws the map of the classical age to reveal its hidden connections, and shows us how ancient history has lessons for our own times.    <\/p>\n<p> Publisher                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 HUTCHINSON\/ PENGUIN; First Edition, First Impression (June 30, 2016) <br \/> Language                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 English <br \/> Hardcover                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 411 pages <br \/> ISBN-10                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 0091958814 <br \/> ISBN-13                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 978-0091958817 <br \/> Item Weight                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 1.66 pounds <br \/> Dimensions                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 6.3 x 1.38 x 9.53 inches <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Historian Michael Scott challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers and empires that swept across Central Asia to India and China \u2013 resulting in a truly global vision of ancient history. 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