Antiquity is a composite world history about religion, empire, success and failure, myth and secular ideas. One reader writes that she reads about ancient history purely for entertainment but expects it to be accurate and balanced and that the book "is really good on all points." Another writes that "so many unspoken questions of mine were answered" and that many 'ah-ha's' were uttered." A third writes that he has never "read such a well conceived and thoroughly enjoyable composite history of the ancient world." Antiquity cuts through common myths and describes the main currents of ancient times.
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Antiquity is a sketch of the ancient world of force and belief within the limits of the competent historian's ability to know it. Ancient times were immersed in slavery, lords and empire. Violence decided who should govern whom --in the name of the gods. Work was done by animal or human sweat and muscle. Few if any people in ancient times, from priest-king to commoner, were able to transcend the age in which they lived. No one knew where the world was going, and the superstitions and institutional weaknesses of ancient times continued into the Middle Ages. Today we understand antiquity better than did the people who lived it. We can look back to antiquity as something to rise above. Truth is no longer whatever some scribe wants it to be. People have progressed in understanding of the physical world, and people -- including people of faith -- have progressed politically and have improved their institutions.
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Frank E. Smitha was born in 1933. His website (fsmitha.com) offers his writings on world history and is much used by online libraries, teachers and students. After serving in the military from 1951 to 1954, Smitha attended junior college, traveled, and in 1963 entered U.C.L.A. as a junior. He moved to Berkeley in late 1964, and until 1973 held a part-time on the University of California campus while studying and writing independently. In 1977, at the age of 43, he graduated with honors and a BA degree in history from California State University, Hayward. In 1977, he began working as an editor and writer in Silicon Valley. In 1987 he began writing history full-time.
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homeschooling world history,
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this book is fantastic for the study of world history for homeschoolers.It is a very thorough book,covering history very well, including religious ideals, taking in social and economic issues, as well as geography. I plan to continue to use this author and his web site for all my son's high school history and world geography. It has a web site for the entire study of world history .... GREAT BOOK! GREAT WEB SITE!
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More Research needs to be done...,
This review is from: Antiquity : a World History (Paperback)
I found it to contain errors and outdated views. It is in a dire need of revision.
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