The Cradle of Civilization by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer (.ePUB)
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The Cradle of Civilization: How the World’s First Cities Rose and Vanished by Peter Hollins
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Overview: Six thousand years ago, on a hot and treeless plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates, human beings did something they had never done before: they stopped wandering and built cities. Here rose the first writing, the first laws, the first kings and temples and armies—the entire machinery of civilization, invented from nothing on the mud of Mesopotamia.
The Cradle of Civilization: How the World’s First Cities Rose and Vanished tells the sweeping story of where history itself began.
From the temple-towers of Uruk to the hanging gardens of Babylon, from Sumerian scribes to the war machine of Assyria, this narrative history brings the ancient world’s first great civilizations to life through the people who built them. Behind the ruins were god-kings and tax collectors, poets and conquerors, and ordinary farmers who invented the future without knowing it.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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