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Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Other titles of interest -- Contents -- From Mesopotamia to Megalopolis -- The Ancient World -- Uruk -- The World's First City -- Mohenjo-Daro -- Mysteries of the Indus Civilization -- Memphis -- The Balance of the Two Lands -- Thebes -- Heart of Egypt's Golden Age -- Hattusa -- Stronghold of the Hittite Empire -- Babylon -- Nebuchadnezzar and the Hanging Gardens -- Nineveh -- Palaces and Temples of Assyrian Kings -- Carthage -- Phoenician and Roman Cities -- Athens -- Birthplace of Democracy -- Linzi -- Cities of Warring States China -- Alexandria -- Greek Capital of Egypt -- Meroë -- Royal City of Nubia -- Jerusalem -- City Founded on Faith -- Rome -- Augustus' City of Stone -- The First Millennium AD -- Teotihuacan -- Where Time and Water Flow -- Tikal -- Crucible of Maya Civilization -- Constantinople -- Christian Capital in the East -- Mecca -- Sacred City of Islam -- Damascus -- Splendours of the Oasis City -- Chang'an -- Capital of Tang China -- Baghdad -- and the Abbasid Caliphs -- Córdoba -- Brilliant Capital of Moorish Spain -- The Medieval World -- Angkor -- Khmer City of Glory -- Palermo -- Norman Jewel of the Mediterranean -- Cairo -- Centre of Islamic Civilization -- Samarkand -- Tamerlane's Chosen City -- Paris -- Pinnacle of Gothic Architecture -- Lübeck -- and the Cities of the Hanseatic League -- Kraków -- Renaissance City of the North -- Venice -- Mistress of the Mediterranean -- Florence -- The Magnificence of the Medici -- Benin -- West African City of the Ancestors -- Timbuktu -- City in the Sands -- Cuzco -- Imperial City of the Inca -- Tenochtitlan -- Aztec City in the Lake -- The Early Modern World -- Lisbon -- in the Age of Discovery -- Rome -- and the Renaissance Papacy -- Istanbul -- City of the Sultans -- Agra -- City of the Taj Mahal -- Isfahan.

Today we take living in cities, with all their attractions and annoyances, for granted. But when did humans first come together to live in large groups, creating an urban landscape? What were these places like to inhabit? More than simply a history of ancient cities, this volume also reveals the art and architecture created by our ancestors, and provides a fascinating exploration of the origins of urbanism, politics, culture, and human interaction. Arranged geographically into five sections, Cities That Shaped the Ancient World takes a global view, beginning in the Near East with the earliest cities such as Ur and Babylon, Troy and Jerusalem. In Africa, the great cities of Ancient Egypt arose, such as Thebes and Amarna. Glorious European metropolises, including Athens and Rome, ringed the Mediterranean, but also stretched to Trier on the turbulent frontier of the Roman Empire. Asia had bustling commercial centers such as Mohenjodaro and Xianyang, while in the Americas the Mesoamerican and Peruvian cultures stamped their presence on the landscape, creating massive structures and extensive urban settlements in the deep jungles and high mountain ranges, including Caral and Teotihuacan. A team of expert historians and archaeologists with firsthand knowledge and deep appreciation of each site gives voices to these silent ruins, bringing them to life as the bustling state-of-the-art metropolises they once were

Aufgeteilt nach Kontinenten werden 40 urbane Zentren des Altertums vorgestellt. Beginnend mit Uruk und Ur, den ersten Städten der Welt im Nahen Osten, über Memphis in Afrika, Knossos in Europa und Chinas erster Reichsstadt Xianyang bis hin zu Palenque in Amerika