Ancient Rome: Using Evidence
Using Evidence
Published on 10. February 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
664 pages
978-0-521-79391-9 (ISBN)
Description
Ancient Rome: Using Evidence examines major issues including the development of the Roman republican form of government, Rome's expansion in the Mediterranean, the decline of the republic, the founding of the principate and the Julio-Claudian period. The text includes introductory chapters to familiarise students with source material and an understanding of events and influences that shaped the characters of the Romans. Ancient sources and archaeological material serve both to describe events and to allow students to evaluate and interpret historical documents and pictorial evidence. The text includes guided assignments, revision exercises, suggestions for further reading, map summaries, diagrams and timelines extend the student's knowledge and appreciation of ancient Rome.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 11 to 14 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1267 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-79391-9 (9780521793919)
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Previous edition
Pamela Bradley
Ancient Rome: Using Evidence
Book
10/1990
Hodder Arnold H&S
€42.23
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Content
List of illustrations; List of maps; Part I. Introduction to Roman History: 1. The evidence; 2. The geography of Italy and its influence on the development of Rome; 3. The foundation and early development of Rome; 4. Roman society in the early republic; Part II. The Roman Conquest of Italy and Constitutional Developent: 5. Conquest and organisation; 6. The plebeian struggle for equality and the government of Rome; Part III. Rome's Expansion in the Mediterranean, 264-146: Carthage, Macedonia, Greece and Asia: 7. Background to the wars with Carthage; 8. The First Punic War, 264-241; 9. Background to the Second Punic War, 229-218; 10. The Second Punic War, 218-201; 11. The Third Punic War, 149-146; 12. Rome and the east, 200-146; 13. The immediate and long-term effects of the wars of expansion; Part IV. The Late Republic: First Phase, 146-78: 14. The Gracchi; 15. marius and Sulla; Part V. The Late Republic: Second Phase, 78-28: 16. The rise of Pompey and the period of his eastern commands, 78-61; 17. From the First Triumvirate to the death of Caesar, 60-44; 18. From republic to principate, 44-28; Part VI. Augustus and the Julio-Claudians 28 BC-AD 68; 19. The principate of Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14; 20. The forums of Rome in the time of Augustus; 21. The Julio-Claudian dynasty, AD 14-68; 22. Life in an imperial city in the first century AD; Notes to the text; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.