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Places of encounter, time, place, and connectivity in world history, Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors, Volume one

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Places of encounter, time, place, and connectivity in world history, Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors, Volume one

Language

eng

Abstract

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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Includes bibliographical references

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illustrationsmaps

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Places of encounter

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electronic resource eBook

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dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors

Sub title

time, place, and connectivity in world history

Table Of 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 -- Potos̕: 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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