By steppe, desert, and ocean : the birth of Eurasia /
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 Mong...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The land and the people
- The domestication of Eurasia, 10,000-5000 BC
- Horses and copper : the centrality of the steppe, 5000-2500 BC
- The opening of the Eurasian steppe, 2500-1600 BC
- Nomads and empires : the first confrontations, 1600-600 BC
- Learning from each other : interaction along the interface, 600-250 BC
- The continent connected, 250 BC-AD 250
- The age of perpetual war, AD 250-650
- The beginning of a new world order, AD 650-840
- The disintegration of empires, AD 840-1150
- The steppe triumphant, AD 1150-1300
- Looking back, looking forwards.
