Table of Contents

Editors' Preface
Preface

Chapter 1 The New World of the Early First Millennium BCE (Ca. 12th Century BCE - 11th Century BCE)
Chapter 2 The Early Iron Age (Ca. 10th-7th Centuries BCE)
Chapter 3 East Meets West: The Rise of Persia (Ca. 6th-5th Centuries BCE)
Chapter 4 The New World of the Macedonian Kingdoms (Ca. 4th -2nd Centuries BCE)
Chapter 5 The Rise of the Peripheries: Rome and China (Ca. 3rd-2nd Centuries BCE)
Chapter 6 A New Order in Afro-Eurasia (Ca. 2nd Century BCE-2nd Century CE)
Chapter 7 Crisis and Recovery (3rd Century CE)

Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Stanley M. Burstein is Professor Emeritus of History and former chair of the History Department at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author or co-author of seventeen books, and a past-president of the Association of Ancient Historians.

Reviews

"This is a great book and one I highly recommend; it is a testimony to the erudition and clear writing style of its author and would be a solid addition to any library whether for students or faculty just starting out or those who want a refresher on just how integrated and foundational the period covered by this book was in the past and continues to be as it reaches to the present." -- David M. Kalivas, Middlesex Community College, World History Connected
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