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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations (Penguin Historical Atlas) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Haywood
Creator: Simon Hall
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
Buy Used: $8.60
You Save: $11.40 (57%)
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 69246
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 0141014482
Dewey Decimal Number: 911.0901
EAN: 9780141014487
ASIN: 0141014482
Publication Date: October 25, 2005
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Product Description
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the worlds earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the foundation of Rome. Examining the development of civilizations around the globe, it covers such subjects as the roots of the Egyptian pharaohs, Chinas long-lived dynasties, and the great cities of the Incas and Aztecs. Richly illustrated with photographs, artwork re-creations, and full-color maps, this is an illuminating and multifaceted one-volume introduction to early peoples and the world they created.
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Excellent introduction to ancient civilizations September 20, 2008
Elizabeth A. Gibson (San Mateo, CA)
As an atlas, maps feature prominently in this slim overview, and they are very good -- interesting, informative, and well-designed. Ancient Mesopotamia gets the most attention, deservedly so, though ancient civilizations on all continents (except Australia) receive good introductory treatment. This is a slim volume, and lacks depth, but for what it is -- an atlas and an introduction -- it is first-rate. The maps really make the book. My only quibble, a minor one, is that a more extensive bibliography would have been helpful. Highly recommended.
 Not bad, but I did find a frustrating error. May 5, 2007
Xerofall (Salt Lake City, Utah United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Okay,
I got this book as a gift. It covers quite a bit of history in a small book. More of a starting off point for further research with other books. The photos and maps are very nice however. Most of the other books on history I looked at lacked such nice colorful images and maps.
I did find one error so far, page 102, the Greek City States chapter. I was all into reading the story of the Spartan-Athens victory over the Persians in 480-479 but at the very bottom of the page the sentence does not finish.
"""Their victory is generally recognized as marking the beginning of the Classical age of """"
I figured it would continue on the opposite page, however that page starts a new chapter. Kind of a dissapointment. Age of what????!!!! Now I'll never know. Haha!
I'll still look into buying The Penguin Historical Atlas of Rome and Greece only because of the nice pictures and maps.
Penguin Historical Atlas - Ancient Civilizations January 5, 2007
Albert C. Eldridge (That toddlin' town.)
Adequate. Interesting and clear illustrations. (No one, of course, is going to agree with materials which had to be excluded in order to fit the estqablished perimeters.) Not as brilliant as Colin
Neat book, size and great maps December 22, 2006
Quilmiense (USA/Spain)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Very neat historical atlas. Excellent maps and interesting pictures on the sides. Civilizations are dealt with in brief 2-page summaries. This book obviously only intends to be an introduction to larger studies by other authors, and it accomplishes its objective well enough.
The reader will surely feel inclined to further his or her research into one of the many early civilizations discussed here.
Broad in scope, limited in depth, but pays off with the illustrations. A little setback, though, is its inclination to pay service to political correctness is -unfortunately- present in the text.
I would have preferred a little more text-space on European and Near Eastern civilizations and less on the Asian ones, too foreign to my cares (should I be sorry for being honest? I don't think so).
 A very thorough piece of work July 31, 2006
Ralph Boerke (Waterloo, Canada)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought four atlases from Penguin recently. This one, New Penguin Altas of Ancient History (McEvedy), N.Pen. Atlas of Medieval His. (McEvedy), and The Pen. Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Scarre). They are all thin and small (under 150 pages and around 10" x 7".
This was the best of all four.
I found the articles and maps to be very good. This was the first atlas I found to show exactly how Meso-American Empires were related.
I also liked the coverage of the ancient Middle East. I love to read history and this book had new stuff I hadn't found. And it is nice to have it all in one place (might have taken me weeks or months to find all of this on the Internet).
Very happy with this book
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