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Readings in Ancient History covers the entire span of ancient history, providing helpful editorial material and carefully selected sources to promote student learning. The selections in this primary source reader encourage critical thinking through an examination of parallel developments across ancient civilizations during the same historical periods. The text contains more than one hundred and sixty primary sources that are distributed among six chapters, organized chronologically: Near Eastern Civilizations, Greek Civilization, Hellenistic Civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, and Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. The Seventh Edition is organized into thematic clusters to make it easier for students to examine a set of key ideas, institutions, and developments within clearly defined historical contexts.