The Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History (7th Edition)

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For courses in Ancient History (Ancient Near East - Egypt/Mesopotamia) Ancient Greece Ancient Rome. The Ancient World is a comprehensive multi-perspective and integrated chronicle of the history of the ancient world from Sumer to the fall of Rome that explores the distinctive forms society took--particularly the unusual (by the standards of college students today) relationships between society and the state that characterized the social order of antiquity. By closely integrating social and cultural histories with the political institutional and military climates in which they unfolded this text provides fascinating insights into family gender relations class structures public vs. private realms slavery popular culture religion art architecture leisure styles philosophy science and education and explores their complex relationships to ideology and political events.