Exam Preparation
- A Short History of Byzantium
This is an abridged version of the standard three-volume work on the history of the Byzantine Empire by one of the best historians in the field.
- Cracking the AP World History Exam
Cracking the AP World History Exam reviews world history topics and includes two full-length practice AP World History tests.
- Memory and the Mediterranean
Braudel is one of the foremost “big picture” social historians in the world. This book covers the rise of the early civilizations (Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Egypt, Crete) through Greece and Rome, not from the standpoint of battles but in terms of the “ebb and flow of cultures.”
- Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
This book provides a solid overview of Mesoamerican civilizations in the area that would become Mexico, showing the links between cultures.
- Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times
This book examines major interactions between cultures from the classical era to 1492, including the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, the spread of world religions, and the Mongol Empire.
- The Illustrated World’s Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions
This book xplains the main tenets of each of the world’s major faiths/belief systems: Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Accompanying each section are short passages from religious texts, illustrating the points made by the author, who is one of the world’s foremost authorities on comparative religion.
