World History: Fifteen Lectures

Author: Liao Xuesheng
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book primarily elaborates on the splendid civilizations of ancient countries in Asia and Africa, the democracy of ancient Athens, the formation and reasons of the Roman Mediterranean empire, the development of private property rights in medieval Western Europe, the evolution from the "divine right of kings" to the development of democracy, and the causes and lessons of the Soviet Union's dramatic changes, among other chapters.