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Author Cunliffe, Barry W., author

Title By steppe, desert, and ocean : the birth of Eurasia / Barry Cunliffe
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 530 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. The Land and the People -- 2. The Domestication of Eurasia, 10,000 -- 5000 BC -- 3. Horses and Copper: The Centrality of the Steppe, 5000 -- 2500 BC -- 4. The Opening of the Eurasian Steppe, 2500 -- 1600 BC -- 5. Nomads and Empires: The First Confrontations, 1600 -- 600 BC -- 6. Learning from Each Other: Interaction along the Interface, 600 -- 250 BC -- 7. The Continent Connected, 250 BC -- AD 250 -- 8. The Age of Perpetual War, AD 250 -- 650 -- 9. The Beginning of a New World Order, AD 650 -- 840 -- 10. The Disintegration of Empires, AD 840 -- 1150 -- 11. The Steppe Triumphant, AD 1150 -- 1300 -- 12. Looking Back, Looking Forwards
Summary By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of European, Near Eastern, and Chinese civilizations and the growing links between them by way of the Indian Ocean, the silk Roads, and the great steppe corridor (which crucially allowed horse riders to travel from Mongolia to the Great Hungarian Plain within a year). Along the way, it is also the story of the rise and fall of empires, the development of maritime trade, and the shattering impact of predatory nomads on their urban neighbours. Above all, as this immense historical panorama unfolds, we begin to see in clearer focus those basic underlying factors - the acquisitive nature of humanity, the differing environments in which people live, and the dislocating effect of even slight climatic variation - which have driven change throughout the ages, and which help us better understand our world today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Colonization
Kultur
Landschaft
Zivilisationsprozess
Världshistoria.
Forntiden.
Migration -- historia.
Människan.
Förhistoriska människan.
SUBJECT Eurasia -- History
Eurasia -- Colonization
Subject Eurasia
Eurasien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191003356
0191003352
0199689172
9780199689170
9780191003363
0191003360