Description: HarperCollins College Outlines are the study guides of choice for students coast to coast. Designed to supplement any textbook assigned, each College Outline is a meticulously researched compendium of the vast knowledge of numerous scholars, reflecting the most up-to-date rigorous scholarship in each field. Formatted to appeal to contemporary student tastes, with user-friendly organization and an accessible narrative outline format, this volume has been written with the goal of providing as concise a summary as possible of the major events, people, and trends in premodern world history. This book focuses on those developments and ideas that are widely accepted as seminal in the creation of the great civilizations and cultural traditions of the premodern world.aFeatures: Ancient Near East; Ancient India; Ancient China; Greece; Rome; Classical Asia; Byzantium; Islam; Medieval Europe; South Asia; Africa; The Americas; Medieval East Asia; Central Asia.

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