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" Ancient history / "
John Farndon.
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BL
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1011612
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b765982
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| Main Entry
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Farndon, John.
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| Title & Author
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Ancient history /\ John Farndon.
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| Publication Statement
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Great Bardfield, Essex :: Miles Kelly,, ©2005.
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| Series Statement
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1000 things you should know about
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61 pages :: color illustrations, color maps, color portraits ;; 30 cm
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| ISBN
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1842366300
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: 1902947770
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: 9781842366301
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: 9781902947778
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Origins of mankind ; handy man -- Man the hunter, Neanderthals and others -- Modern humans ; cave painters -- The Stone ages ; The Bronze age -- The Iron age -- Magaliths ; Archaeology -- The first farms ; the first cities -- Mesopotamia and Sumer ; Indus civilization -- Great migrations ; the beginnings of Egypt -- Babylon -- First Chinese emperors ; Egyptian writing -- Egyptian lifestyles ; Ancient Crete -- The pharaohs -- The Olmecs and Chavins ; Aryan India -- Semites ; the Assyrians -- Oceania ; Dead Egyptians -- Persia ; Weapons of war -- Tutankhamun -- The Trojan wars ; Early Greece -- The Mayans ; Confucius -- Chinese technology -- The search for Troy ; Greek city-states -- Zhou and Qin dynasties ; famous generals -- Buddha ; Greek thinkers -- Homer ; Early Americans -- Greek art -- What people ate ; The Phoenicians -- Polynesians ; Greek gods and myths -- Alexander the Great -- The founding of Rome ; Cleopatra -- The rise of Rome ; Jesus -- The Han dynasty ; Roman towns -- The Roman Empire -- The Roman Army ; the Roman way of life -- Famous disasters ; Yamato -- The Mauryan Empire ; early North Americans -- Early Ireland -- Julius Caesar ; the Guptas -- Gauls and Franks ; early African civilisations -- The Celts ; the first Britons -- The fall of Rome ; the spread of Christianity -- The Byzantine Empire -- The Sui, Tang and song ; Barbarians -- Roman Britain ; Muhammed -- What prople wore -- Monks and monasteries ; The spread of Islam -- The Fujiwaras ; Anglo-Saxons -- Bulgars ; The caliphs -- Alfred the Great ; The Berbers -- The Vikings -- The first Russians ; Harun al-Rashid -- The Holy Roman Empire ; The Toltecs -- The Maoris ; Charlemagne -- The Magyars ; Viking voyages -- Famous villains ; Viking society -- The first English kings ; Early Scots
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| Abstract
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Information on ancient history in small to the point pieces, over 100 illustrated topic panels on ancient history.
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History, Ancient, Miscellanea, Juvenile literature.
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History, Ancient.
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930
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