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Fall of Civilizations
Stories of Greatness and Decline
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Artikel-Nr:
9781335013415
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.07.2024
Seiten:
576
Autor:
Paul Cooper
Gewicht:
472 g
Format:
235x156x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
"Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations ... explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With ... research, ... insight, and ... empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world"