PDF The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru by Ana E. Schaposchnik; Ana Schaposchnik in History

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For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two hundred years; however; archaeological discoveries in Egypt; Mesopotamia; Crete; Syria; Anatolia; Iran; and the Indus Valley have revealed that rich cultures existed in these regions some two thousand years before the Greco-Roman era. In this fascinating work; H.W.F Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the more notable achievements of these societies; showing how much the ancient peoples of the Near and Middle East have influenced the patterns of our daily lives.