From the rise of Greece in the fifth century B. C. to the fall of Rome in 476, this book discusses the Peloponnesian War, Macedonia and Alexander the Great, the Punic Wars, Caesar, the Mayans, Cleopatra, the Parthian empire, the Ch'in Dynasty, the African kingdom of Axum, and India unification under the Gupta rulers, and the beginning of Christianity.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Classical Greece: crucible of war and culture; Rome conquers and rules the Mediterranean world; Beyond Europe: new cultures, nations and empires; Religious beginnings, struggles and triumphs; The decline and fall of Rome and the classical world.