A dazzling new History of the World told through the ten major empires of human civilization.
Next the narrative describes how a great deal of Western Classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyad.
Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots.
A dazzling new History of the World told through the ten major empires of human civilization