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The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE / (Record no. 2220)

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fixed length control field	01724cam a2200313 i 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9780199336135
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	930 St256 W
Item number	102095
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Stanley M Burstein
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE /
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication	New York
Name of publisher	Oxford University Press
Date of publication	2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	156
Accompanying material	24 cm
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement	New Oxford world history
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	This book provides the first comprehensive history of Afro-Eurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE. The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word: connectivity. The growth in connectivity during this period was marked by increasing political, economic, and cultural interaction throughout the region, and the replacement of the numerous political and cultural entities by a handful of great empires at the end of the period. In the process, local cultural traditions were replaced by great traditions rooted in lingua francas and spread by formalized educational systems.<br/>This process began with the collapse of the Bronze Age empires in the east and west, widespread population movements, and almost chronic warfare throughout Afro-Eurasia, while the cavalry revolution transformed the nomads of the central Asian steppes into founders of tribal confederations assembled by charismatic leaders and covering huge territories. At the same time, new artistic and intellectual movements appeared, including the teachings of Socrates, Confucius, the Buddha, and Laozi. Increased literacy also allowed people from a wide range of social classes such as the Greek soldier Xenophon, the Indian Buddhist emperor Ashoka, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and elite women such as the poetess Sappho, the Christian martyr Perpetua, and the scholar Ban Zhao to create literary works.<br/><br/>When the period ended in 300 CE, conditions had changed dramatically. Temperate Afro-Eurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dominated by a handful of empires―Rome, Sassanid Persia, and Jin Empire-that ruled more than half the world's population, while an extensive network of trade routes bound them to Southeast and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and made possible the spread of new book based religions including Christianity, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism, thereby setting the stage for the next millennium of Afro-Eurasian history.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	The new world of the early first millennium BCE (ca. Twelfth-Eleventh Centuries BCE) -- The early Iron Age (ca. Tenth-Seventh Centuries BCE) -- East meets west: the rise of Persia (ca. Sixth-Fifth Centuries BCE) -- The new world of the Macedonian kingdoms (ca. Fourth-Second Centuries BCE) -- The rise of the peripheries: Rome and China (ca. Third-Second Centuries BCE) -- A new order in Afro-Eurasia (ca. Second Century BCE-Second Century CE) -- Crisis and recovery (Third Century CE).
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	History, Ancient.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	World history
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type	Books

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