Reader's Digest Illustrated History of the World - The Ancient World 900 BC to AD 430

The period covered by The Ancient World is one of the most remarkeable in the entire history of mankind. Civilisations and empires around the globe were creating legacies that have impacted on the world ever since. Perhaps most influential are the religious, philosophical and political doctrines that emerged, and which have continued to shape human beliefs, thought and progress to this day....