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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Six thousand years before Stonehenge, people who hadn't invented farming built a temple - and then buried it on purpose.On a limestone ridge in southeastern Turkey, around 9600 BC, hunter-gatherers quarried pillars taller than a man and heavier than a truck, carved them in relief with foxes, vultures, snakes, and scorpions, and raised them into massive stone rings. They had no agriculture. No pottery, no metal, no writing, no wheel. By every rule of how civilization was supposed to begin, none of this could happen until farming produced a surplus and a settled population.At Göbekli Tepe, the monuments came first - and the farming may have followed.It is the most astonishing archaeological find in a century, and the most misunderstood. The keyword space is owned by ancient-astronaut theories, comet catastrophes, and lost-civilization fantasies. Beneath all of it lies a stranger, better-documented truth: foragers who organized monumental labor without kings or agriculture, carved a language of dangerous animals we still cannot translate, stood human-shaped stone 'beings' at the center of every enclosure - and, when they were finished, deliberately filled their temples with rubble and walked away.In this book you will discover: - How a 1963 survey mistook the site for a medieval cemetery - and how one archaeologist recognized the truth in 1994- How people moved sixteen-ton pillars with no wheels, metal, or draft animals- What the carved menagerie of predators and scavengers might mean - and why we must resist overreading it- The evidence for a Neolithic skull cult- The argument that the demands of building and feasting drove humanity to invent farming- Why the builders buried their own monuments- Karahan Tepe and the Tas Tepeler - the buried world now emerging across the region- What the fringe theories get wrong, taken seriously and answered directlyWritten in Shane Larson's direct, jargon-free voice, Göbekli Tepe: The Temple Before Farming is the credible popular account a subject this contaminated by speculation has been waiting for - because the documented facts are far more astonishing than the invented ones.For readers of Sapiens, The Dawn of Everything, and anyone who wants the real story of where civilization began. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The greatest city in the ancient Americas kept one secret better than any other: who ran it.Around the year 400, a planned metropolis of perhaps 125,000 people stood in the highlands northeast of modern Mexico City - bigger than Rome's rivals, gridded like a modern capital, dominated by pyramids on a scale nothing in Europe could match. Its obsidian moved across Mesoamerica. Its warriors toppled a royal dynasty seven hundred miles away. And yet we do not know what its people called it, what language they spoke, or the name of a single ruler. Even 'Teotihuacan' is borrowed - the Aztecs coined it centuries after the fall, when they found the ruins and concluded that only gods could have built them.This book reconstructs an anonymous superpower from what it left behind: a sealed tunnel beneath the Feathered Serpent Pyramid holding pools of liquid mercury and walls dusted with artificial starlight; mass graves of bound warriors buried in the foundations of the state's own monuments; two thousand apartment compounds where ordinary families - including whole neighborhoods of foreigners - lived better than most people anywhere on earth; murals that celebrate gods and offices but never a king. Then it follows the evidence to the strangest ending in archaeology: around 550, someone burned the temples, the palaces, and the symbols of authority - and left the neighborhoods standing. That is not what an invasion looks like. It looks like a city turning on its own rulers.What you'll learn: - Why the Aztecs made pilgrimages to a ruin built by a people they never knew- What it took to lay out, build, and feed a planned city of 125,000 without wheels or draft animals- What the tunnel under the Feathered Serpent Pyramid contained - and what it was for- How isotope science identified the bound men buried under the pyramids, and where they came from- What daily life looked like inside the apartment compounds, the best-documented homes in the ancient Americas- The 378 AD 'arrival of strangers' at Tikal - the day Teotihuacan reached into the Maya world- Why a city this powerful left almost no writing, and what that silence may have been saying- The evidence behind the burning of 550 - revolt, civil war, ritual termination, or droughtThis book is for you if: - You have seen photographs of the Pyramid of the Sun and want the story nobody told you- You read narrative history built on archaeology rather than legend- You are drawn to lost civilizations, unsolved endings, and evidence honestly weighed- You want a clear-eyed account that says what we know, how we know it, and where nobody is sureThe city has kept its name to itself for fifteen centuries. What it could not hide is everything else. Start reading and meet the greatest city you were never told about.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three thousand years ago, kings on opposite sides of the known world called each other 'brother.' They traded tin and gold across thousands of miles of open sea. They sent their daughters to marry foreign rulers they would never meet. They wrote letters in a shared diplomatic language, demanding respect, negotiating treaties, and complaining about the quality of gifts. Then the whole system collapsed and none of it survived.The Late Bronze Age - roughly 1500 to 1200 BCE - was the first era of true international civilization. Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Babylonia, Assyria, and Mycenaean Greece formed an interconnected network of great powers bound together by diplomacy, trade, and marriage alliances. A single shipwreck from this era, the Uluburun vessel discovered off the coast of Turkey, carried goods from eleven different cultures. This was not a primitive world. It was a sophisticated, interdependent system of states that would not be matched in complexity for nearly a thousand years after its destruction.This book tells the story of that system - how it was built, how it worked, and why it was more fragile than anyone realized.In The Bronze Age World, you will discover: - The Club of Great Kings - the exclusive circle of rulers who treated each other as equals and everyone else as subjects- The Amarna Letters - the diplomatic archive that lets us read 3,400-year-old correspondence between kings, complete with flattery, threats, and petty complaints- The Uluburun Shipwreck - the single archaeological find that proved the Bronze Age was a global trading system- The Tin Problem - why the need for a single rare metal forced civilizations to build trade networks spanning thousands of miles- Diplomatic Marriages - how princesses were the currency of international relations, and what happened when the system broke down- Writing, Law, and Bureaucracy - the administrative machinery that made an international civilization possible- The Cracks in the System - how climate change, supply chain dependency, and internal pressures made the whole structure vulnerable- The Last Letters - the final desperate messages from Ugarit to allies who could not help, written as the world was endingThis book is for you if: - You love ancient history but want the full picture of Bronze Age civilization, not just the collapse- You're fascinated by how ancient trade and diplomacy actually worked- You want to understand what was lost when the Bronze Age system fell apart- You enjoyed Ancient Apocalypse, The Sea Peoples, The Hittite Empire, or Iron Age Dawn and want the prequel- You're drawn to parallels between ancient interconnected civilizations and our ownThis is the story of the world before the catastrophe - the first global civilization and everything it achieved before it all fell apart.The prequel to the Bronze Age Collapse. The story of what was lost.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The most famous trade route in history was named in 1877 - by a German geographer scouting railway lines for Prussian investors. Nobody who ever travelled it heard the phrase.There was no road. The traffic was not mostly silk. And almost no one - and almost nothing - ever went the whole way. What actually existed was a shifting braid of desert tracks, mountain passes, and steppe corridors, walked in short local hops and paid for less by merchant profit than by the military budgets of empires holding their frontiers. The best-documented stretch survives as a paper trail of receipts, contracts, wills, and lawsuits: traders haggling over bolts of cloth, one camel, a debt of grain.Across that unglamorous network moved the things that changed the world. Buddhism walked east with merchants and was carved into cliffs from Bamiyan to Dunhuang. Papermaking walked west and armed an empire that ran on documents. Silkworm eggs were smuggled to Constantinople. A Christian church reached the Tang capital and left a stone monument to prove it. And in the 1330s, in a mountain cemetery in the Tian Shan, something else got on the road - a bacterium whose genome, sequenced in 2022, proved to be the direct ancestor of every strain of the Black Death.At the center of it all: the Sogdians, a merchant people from Samarkand who ran a trade diaspora across three thousand miles for six centuries, whose language became the lingua franca of Inner Asia - and whose most human trace is a mailbag abandoned in a desert watchtower for sixteen hundred years, including a stranded wife's furious letter to the husband who left her behind.What you'll learn: - Why 'the Silk Road' is a nineteenth-century invention - and what was really on the ground- How silk worked as money, tax, and army payroll long before it was a luxury- Who the Sogdians were, and how they quietly ran Eurasian trade for six hundred years- How Buddhism, Christianity, and Manichaeism travelled as freight - and what transit did to them- What forty thousand manuscripts from a sealed cave at Dunhuang reveal about who actually traded- How the Mongol century briefly unified the route - and delivered the Black Death to the Mediterranean- What the 2021 Tarim mummy genomes and the 2022 plague-origin discovery changed - findings newer than every popular book on the subjectThis book is for you if: - You want the real story behind one of history's most familiar phrases- You read narrative history that tests the legend against documents, archaeology, and DNA- You are curious how goods, faiths, technologies, and diseases actually crossed a continent- You prefer history that respects your intelligence - evidence first, romance secondThe road never existed. Everything that used it was real. This is the story of both.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Europe's first great civilization had indoor plumbing when the rest of the continent was living in huts.They built multi-story palaces with drainage systems nothing in Europe would match for a thousand years. They painted frescoes of dolphins and bull-leapers with a precision that still stuns archaeologists. They controlled the Mediterranean with a navy so dominant they never bothered to build walls around their cities.Then they vanished. And we still can't read their writing.The Minoans reconstructs Europe's founding civilization from what it left behind - palaces, frescoes, DNA, and the silence of two undeciphered scripts. You'll discover how a volcanic eruption buried an entire Minoan city under sixty feet of ash, why the collapse came anyway, and how the destruction of a real Aegean empire became the legend of Atlantis.Inside: - The palace system at Knossos - throne rooms, grand staircases, and storerooms holding enough olive oil to supply an empire- Bull-leaping, the goddess cult, and art that depicts festivals but almost never war- Linear A and the Phaistos Disc - still unreadable after a century of attempts- The Atlantis connection - and why Plato wasn't writing pure fantasy- What DNA evidence finally revealed about where the Minoans came fromFourteen chapters. Three appendices. The deepest book in the Bronze Age catalog.The civilization that started everything - and left us just enough to know what we're missing.Part of the Peak Grizzly Publishing Bronze Age series, alongside The Sea Peoples, The First Dark Age, and The Hittite Empire.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1520, a twenty-six-year-old prince inherited the most powerful empire on Earth. Over the next forty-six years, he would conquer Belgrade, Rhodes, Hungary, and Baghdad. His navy would dominate the Mediterranean. His legal code would govern millions for three centuries. His architects would build monuments that still stand today.His people called him 'Kanuni'-the Lawgiver.Europeans called him 'the Magnificent.'Suleiman the Magnificent tells the complete story of the Ottoman Empire's greatest ruler-from the siege of Vienna to the love affair that scandalized his court, from the genius architect Mimar Sinan to the tragic execution of his own son.What you'll discover: - How Suleiman conquered his way across three continents before being stopped at the gates of Vienna- The revolutionary legal reforms that earned him the title 'Lawgiver' and governed the empire for 300 years- The extraordinary love story with Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana)-a slave who became queen and changed Ottoman history- The architectural golden age of Mimar Sinan, whose mosques still define Istanbul's skyline- The brutal succession system that forced Suleiman to choose between his sons-with fatal consequences- How the seeds of Ottoman decline were planted at the very moment of imperial triumphThis book covers: - Military campaigns: Belgrade, Rhodes, Mohacs, Vienna, Preveza, Baghdad, Szigetvár- Political intrigue: The rise and fall of Ibrahim Pasha, harem politics, the war between princes- Cultural achievement: Ottoman poetry, miniature painting, Iznik ceramics, architectural wonders- Imperial administration: The kanunname legal codes, the timar system, provincial governance- International rivalry: The Habsburg wars, Safavid Persia, Mediterranean naval warfarePerfect for readers who enjoyed: - God's Shadow by Alan Mikhail- The Ottomans by Eugene Rogan- Constantinople by Roger Crowley- Empress of the East by Leslie PeirceWhether you discovered Suleiman through the television series 'Magnificent Century' or have never heard his name, this book reveals why his forty-six-year reign defined an empire and shaped a world.The story of law, love, conquest, and the terrible price of absolute power.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Roman Empire ended on a Tuesday morning in May 1453. Almost nobody counts it.Most readers learn that Rome fell in 476. The people living in Constantinople would have found that claim bewildering. They called themselves Romans. Their emperor stood in an unbroken line, their courts ran on Roman law, and their capital was the city Constantine himself had founded. When the walls finally came down under Ottoman cannon, the thing that ended was not a Greek kingdom with a Roman nickname. It was the Roman state - eleven hundred years after everyone stopped paying attention to it.The siege is one of the great set pieces in military history, and it was a genuinely close-run thing. Constantine XI held fourteen miles of wall with perhaps seven thousand men. Mehmed II, a sultan of twenty-one whom everyone underestimated, brought as many as eighty thousand - and the largest cannon ever built, cast by a Hungarian engineer who had offered the gun to the defenders first and been told they could not afford it. For fifty-three days the Theodosian Walls, which had turned back every attacker for a thousand years, very nearly held again. Then Mehmed dragged his warships over a hill.But this is also a book about the cargo. For fifty years before the fall and for decades after, Greek scholars carried manuscripts west - teaching Greek to Italians who had not been able to read it for seven centuries, and putting Plato, Ptolemy, Archimedes and Homer back into the hands of the Latin West. They did not know they were seeding the Renaissance. The city fell. The library got out.What you'll learn: - Why 'Byzantine' is a label invented in 1557, and why the empire it describes was simply Rome- How the Fourth Crusade of 1204 inflicted the wound the empire never recovered from- How Orban's twenty-seven-foot bombard was cast, hauled a hundred and forty miles, and fired seven times a day- The arithmetic of the defence: seven thousand men, fourteen miles of wall, and no relief coming- How seventy Ottoman warships crossed a ridge on greased rollers in a single night- Who Chrysoloras, Bessarion and Plethon were, what they carried, and what the West could suddenly read- The honest answer to the counterfactual: would Plato have reached the West anyway This book is for you if: - You want the siege told day by day - and want to know what it meant, not just how it went- You suspect the story you learned about Rome falling in 476 is only half the story- You are drawn to the hinge moments where one technology quietly retires another- You care about how knowledge survives - and how close it can come to not surviving- You prefer history that respects your intelligence over history that shoutsThe empire that died on a Tuesday, and the library that got out ahead of it - read the whole story.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rome didn't fall in a day-it took centuries. The Bronze Age world collapsed in a single generation. The Maya walked away from their cities and never returned.What do these catastrophes have in common More than you'd expect.The Collapse Pattern examines history's greatest civilizational failures-from the world's first empire in Akkad to the slow unraveling of Rome-to uncover the recurring patterns that appear again and again when complex societies destroy themselves.You'll discover: - Why increasing complexity often causes the problems it was meant to solve- How climate stress triggers cascading failures in interconnected systems- What warning signs appeared before each collapse-and why elites ignored them- Why some societies survived crises that destroyed their neighbors- What survivors actually did to adapt and continue- The uncomfortable parallels between ancient patterns and modern conditionsThis isn't a book of predictions or alarmism. It's a clear-eyed examination of what history actually teaches us about how civilizations fail-and what that knowledge might mean for understanding our own time.This book is for you if: - You're fascinated by ancient history and want to understand the 'why' behind famous collapses- You think in systems and want to see how complexity, environment, and politics interact- You've read books on individual civilizations and want the bigger picture- You're curious whether historical patterns have anything to teach us todayDrawing on the latest archaeological and climate research, The Collapse Pattern offers a fresh perspective on humanity's most consequential failures-and the resilience that allowed some to survive.From the author of Ancient Apocalypse: The Fall of the Bronze Age and Twilight of the Ziggurats.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Around 1350 BC, the king of Babylon wrote to Pharaoh with a complaint: the gold you sent came up short when we melted it down. Also, my sister was married into your court years ago and no one has heard from her since. Send someone who can recognize her.In the 1880s, a woman digging for fertilizer in the ruins of an abandoned Egyptian city struck a cache of clay tablets covered in cuneiform. Dismissed as forgeries, sold in dealer lots, partly ground to powder in transit, the roughly 350 tablets that survived turned out to be something unrepeatable: the diplomatic inbox of the Egyptian court at the height of the Bronze Age - incoming mail from the kings of Babylon, Assyria, Mitanni, Hatti, and Cyprus, and from dozens of small rulers in Canaan begging for help that rarely came.These are not treaties. They are letters, and they read like it. Kings call each other 'brother' and quarrel like family - over underweight gold, late festival invitations, daughters sent as brides and never seen again. The king of Cyprus apologizes for a small copper shipment: plague has killed his coppersmiths. And on the empire's frontier, Rib-Hadda of Byblos writes more than sixty increasingly desperate letters - send fifty archers, send ten, send anyone - while his city is stripped away town by town.The reader knows what the writers do not: within a century and a half, nearly every kingdom in this correspondence will be gone. These letters are the last intact snapshot of the world before the Bronze Age collapse - the 'before' picture of the most famous ending in ancient history.What you'll learn: - How a real international system worked 3,300 years ago - protocol, gift exchange, dynastic marriage, extradition- Why every court wrote in Akkadian, a language none of them natively spoke- What the gold complaints reveal about Bronze Age finance and the price of respect- Why Egypt took foreign princesses but never sent one abroad - and the resentment it bred- Who the Apiru were, and the honest state of the argument connecting them to the Hebrews- How a minor vassal named Aziru played Egypt and the Hittites against each other - and won- What the letters could not see coming: the collapse that erased their worldThis book is for you if: - You want the Bronze Age with the voices intact - kings complaining, flattering, and lying, not just ruins and pottery- You've read about the Bronze Age collapse and want to see the system that fell while it still worked- You're drawn to diplomacy and statecraft - how strangers built trust across a thousand miles- You like history told through people: a wheedling king, a desperate governor, a queen asking her enemy for a husbandMeet the great kings of the Bronze Age - petty, funny, desperate, and completely alive - in the last letters before the world ended.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Indonesian is one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn.No verb conjugations. No tones. No gendered nouns. Just a logical, friendly language spoken by over 270 million people across the world's largest archipelago.So why do most Indonesian books make it feel so hard Fun With Indonesian is different. This book makes learning genuinely enjoyable-because language sticks when you're having a good time.What you'll discover: - Why Indonesian is the 'friendly giant' of Asian languages-and how English speakers have a built-in advantage- The five different words for rice (and when to use each one)- How to order food, drinks, and coffee like a local-not a tourist- The art of friendly bargaining at Indonesian markets- Words that don't exist in English but absolutely should (like 'gemas'-the urge to squeeze something cute)- Modern texting shortcuts, slang, and internet Indonesian that textbooks never teach- Cultural context that makes the language make senseEach chapter focuses on real situations: - Eating Your Way to Fluency - Food vocabulary, ordering at warungs, coffee culture- Getting Around - Transportation, directions, shopping, emergencies- Making Connections - Introductions, family talk, expressing emotions- Level Up - Texting abbreviations, current slang, resources for continued learningSpecial features include: - 'Say This, Not That' boxes for common mistakes- 'Why Though ' cultural sidebars that explain Indonesian customs- 'Sound Like a Local' tips for natural-sounding speech- Practice conversations you can use immediately- Quick reference cards for essential phrasesPerfect for: - Travelers planning trips to Bali, Jakarta, or anywhere in Indonesia- Anyone with Indonesian friends, family, or romantic partners- Language enthusiasts looking for an accessible new language- People tired of dry textbooks who want to actually enjoy learningNo stress. No boring drills. Just fun.Whether you're ordering nasi goreng at a warung, chatting with a Gojek driver, or texting Indonesian friends, this book will get you communicating with confidence-and a smile.Ayo mulai! Let's start.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 513 BC, the largest army in the world marched into the grass north of the Black Sea - and never found anybody to fight.Darius I of Persia crossed the Danube on a bridge of boats to punish the Scythians. They withdrew a day ahead of him, burning the pasture and stopping the wells, while their cavalry cut up his foragers. When Darius finally demanded that they stand and fight or submit, the answer came back: we have no cities and no fields, so there is nothing here you can threaten - go find the graves of our ancestors if you want a battle. Darius went home. It was the first recorded demonstration of a fact that would hold for two thousand years: a settled empire cannot defeat a steppe power by invading it.That is the strategic story. The spectacular one came out of the ground. From 1830 onward, the burial mounds of the steppe yielded kilograms of gold, worked in an animal style of astonishing sophistication. And in the Altai mountains, at Pazyryk, ancient tomb robbers let in water that froze and never thawed. Archaeologists lifted out things that survive nowhere else in the ancient world: a knotted wool pile carpet, a complete four-wheeled wagon, saddles with their stuffing intact, horses in antlered headdresses, and human bodies with their tattoos still legible after twenty-four centuries.Between those two stories runs the rhythm that structures this book. Herodotus reported things nobody believed - kings buried with strangled servants, enemy skulls turned into gilded drinking cups, mourners howling with pleasure in hemp-smoke tents - and claim after claim, the excavations keep confirming him. The report first, then the ground.What you'll find inside: - The Danube campaign of 513 BC - the bridge, the burned grass, and the reply that founded steppe warfare- The great kurgans - Kul-Oba, Solokha, Tolstaya Mogila - and the gold that came out of them- The frozen tombs of Pazyryk: the carpet, the wagon, the tattooed chieftains- The royal funeral Herodotus described, and the excavations that matched it chamber by chamber- The women in armour: the grave counts, the combat injuries, and the evidence behind the Amazon legend- The doctrine that outlived the people - from Darius to Carrhae to the Mongols- Three appendices: a gazetteer of the great kurgans, a claim-by-claim audit of Herodotus Book Four, and the steppe toolkit from composite bow to felt tentThis book is for you if: - You want ancient history built on evidence - what the sources say, what the spade found, and where the two meet- You are drawn to archaeology at its most vivid: gold, ice, horses, and tattooed skin- You have wondered where the steppe story begins - before the Huns, before the Mongols- You like an author who says plainly what is known, what is guessed, and what is legendScroll up and meet the king who could not find his enemy.…

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