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Places of encounter : time, place, and connectivity in world history Volume one, To 1600
Title
Places of encounter : time, place, and connectivity in world history Volume one, To 1600 / Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors.
ISBN
0813347386 (v. 1 : ebook)
9780813347387 (v. 1 : ebook)
0813347378 (v. 1 : print)
9780813347370 (v. 1 : print)
9781784020279 (online)
Edition
[Enhanced Credo edition].
Publication
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2013.
Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, [2012]
Physical Description
1 online resource (20 entries) : 26 images ; digital files.
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Summary
Places of Encounter provides a place-based approach to world history, focusing on specific locations at critical moments when human history was transformed as a result of encountersphysical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious.
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Credo reference.
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Language
English
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July 16, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Hadar: The Legacy of Human Ancestors (4,000,000-100,000 BCE) / Christopher Howell
Makapansgat and Pinnacle Point: Three Million Years of Human Evolution in South Africa (3,000,000-2,000 BCE) / Andy I. R. Herries
Babylon: Rise of a Complex Urban Civilization (ca. 3700-539 BCE) / Melanie Sue Byrd
Athens: The Cradle of Western Civilization (900 BCE-324 CE) / Nadejda Popov
Xian: Eastern Gateway and Strategic Citadel (1049 BCE-907 CE) / Keith N. Knapp
Carthage: Gateway to the World Beyond the Mediterranean (ca. 800 BCE-700 CE) / Julia Clancy-Smith
Constantinople/Istanbul: A Vortex of Peoples and Cultures (324-1500) / Nina Ergin
Mecca: Pilgrimage and the Making of the Islamic World (400-1500) / Michael Christopher Low
Kilwa: A Commercial City in the Economic and Cultural Cross-Currents (1000-1500) / Erik Gilbert
Varanasi: The Microcosm of India and Exemplar of Balance (ca. 1200-1600 CE) / Nita Kumar
Samarkand: Political and Economic Hub Connecting East and West (1220-1660) / Reuel R. Hanks
Venice: A Center of International Exchange in the Renaissance World (1350-1550) / Maritere López
Potos:̕ A Motor of Global Change (1545-1600s) / Jane E. Mangan
Malacca: Cosmopolitan Trading Port of the Early Modern World (1500-1824) / Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya.
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