H. W. F. Saggs - Civilization Before Greece and Rome
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Published in the United Kingdom 1989 by B. T. Batsford, Ltd.
Published in the United States 1989 by Yale University Press
Copyright 1989 by H. W. F. Saggs
All rights reserved
This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress catalog card number: 8850828
International standard book number: 0300050313
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Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Chronological Chart
x
1 Pushing Back the Frontiers
1
2 City-States and Kingdoms
21
3 Pyramids and Ziggurats
47
4 Writing
62
5 Education
98
6 Living in Cities
114
7 Trade
128
8 Law
156
9 The Brotherhood of Nations
176
10 Natural Resources
195
11 Mathematics and Astronomy
220
12 Medicine
240
13 Ancient Religion
267
References
302
Select Bibliography
309
General Index
315
Index of Biblical References
321
Page ix
The Illustrations
Plates
1 Prehistoric Fertility Figurine (Ronald Sheridan and the Ancient Art & Architecture Collection)
2 Mosque Inside Ruined Church Inside Ruined Egyptian Temple at Luxor (H. W. F. Saggs)
3 Step Pyramid at Saqqara (H. W. F. Saggs)
4 Transplanting a Myrrh Tree from Punt to Egypt (Detail from E. Naville, The Temple of Deir El Bahari, Part III (898), Plate LXXIV; Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society)
5 Houses On Stilts in Punt (As Fig. 4, Plate LXIX)
6 The Queen of Punt (As Fig. 4, Plate LXIX)
7 The Phaistos Disc (Courtesy of Peter a Clayton, F.L.A., F.S.A., F.R.N.S.)
8 Delivery of Tribute from Nubia (N. M. Davies, The Tomb of Huy, Viceroy of Nubia in the Reign of Tut'ankhamun (1926), Plate XXIII; Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society)
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