Haywood John. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations

Penguin Books, 2005. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0-141-01448-2.This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the world's earliest civilisations from the first farming settlements of Mesopotamia, via Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the civilisations of the Far East, Europe and America. Informatively written, and ideal for both students and the general reader, it plots the rise and fall of empires, the nature of different societies and the evolution of technology.Introduction: What is Civilization?
Timelines.
The Ancient Near East.
The First Farmers.
The First Towns.
The Sumerians.
The First Empires.
Ziggurats.
The Old Babylonian Empire.
The Elamites.
The Hittite Empire.
Assyrians and Kassites.
The Age of the Sea Peoples.
The Kingdoms of the Bible Lands.
The Phoenicians.
Assyria's Imperial Prime.
The New Babylonian Empire.
The Persian Empire.
The End of the Ancient Near East.
The African Civilizations.
Predynastic Egypt.
Old Kingdom Egypt.
Middle Kingdom Egypt.
New Kingdom Egypt.
The Nubian Civilizations.
The Carthaginian Empire.
Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The First Civilizations of Asia.
The Indus Valley Civilization.
Vedic India.
Ashoka and the Mauryan Empire.
Neolithic China.
Shang China.
Zhou China.
The Unification of China.
The First European Civilizations.
Neolithic Europe.
The Bronze Age and the Rise of Elites.
The Minoans.
The Mycenaeans.
The Greek City-states.
Greek Colonization.
Italy Before the Romans.
Early Rome.
The Ancient Celts.
The Iberians.
The Ancient Americas.
The Preclassic Civilizations.
The Maya.
Teotihuacan and the Toltecs.
The Aztec Empire.
Farmers of the Southwestern Deserts.
The Mound Builders.
The Origins of the Andean Civilizations.
The First Andean Empires.
The Inca Empire.
Chiefdoms of the Pacific.