Short description:

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access ?who?s who? with details the identities and dates, with ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference.

Long description:

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access ?who?s who? with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference. The relevant original and secondary sources are also listed in a comprehensive bibliography.

Providing a clear reference guide for students, to who was who and when they ruled in the dynasties and other ruler-lists for the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern worlds ? primarily European and Middle Eastern but including available information on Africa and Asia and the pre-Columbian Americas. The trilogy accesses and interprets the original data plus any modern controversies and disputes over names and dating, reflecting on the shifts and widening of focus in student and academic studies. Each volume contains league tables of rulers? ?records?, and an extensive bibliographical guide to the relevant personnel and dynasties, plus any controversies, so readers can consult these for extra details and know exactly where to go for which information. All relevant information is collected and provided as a one-stop-shop for students wishing to check the known information about a world Sovereign.

The Ancient volume begins with the Pharaohs in Egypt and moves through Greece, Classical and Early Medieval Armenia, Crimea, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Judah, Persia, India and ends with the Roman World in the east and west.

A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume I Ancient provides students and scholars with the perfect reference guide to support their studies and to fact check dates, people, and places.

Table of Contents:

Egypt ? Pharoahs P. 1. Old Kingdom; Middl Kingdom; New Kingdom.

Hittites P. 43.

Akkad

Babylonia p. 47.

Lydia. P. 69.

Assyria

Later Babylon: C6th BC.

Greece ? Dual Kingship of Sparta

Early Athens

Early Thebes

Early Argos

Early Mycenae

Early Pylos and Ithaca

Early Iolcos and Thessaly

Legendary Troy

Greek ?Tyrannies?: Sicyon, Athens, Samos and Ionia

Sicily: : Rulers of Gela, Syracuse.

Kings (and queens) of Macedon and rulers of its empire: Temenids, House of Antipater, and Antigonids

Epirus

Seleucid Kingdom

Ptolemaic Kingdom

Pergamum ; Pontus ; Cappadocia ; Bithynia ; Galatia ; Commagene .

Thrace

Classical and Early Mediaeval Armenia

Bosporan Kingdom (Crimea)

Abgarid Dynasty of Edessa (NE Syria)

Nabatea (Jordan)

Southern Arabia: Saba and Himyar.

Israel and Judah to 586 BC

Maccabean Dynasty of Israel

Dynasty of Herod

Achaemenid Persia

Parthian Kingdom (to AD 224/6)

(Indo-Parthian sub-kingdom.)

Sassanian Persia (to AD 637/651)

Hellenistic Greek Bactria and India

Indian Sovereigns: Mauryas and Guptas

Sri Lanka: Anuradhapura.

China: Early Dynasties to c. 220 BC: legendary emperors; Shang; Zhou,

Chu, xi/Ch?i; early Qin; Yen/Yan; Lu; Song; Yu/ Yuyue.

Emperors: Qin; Han.

Period of division c. AD 220 to 580

The Three Kingdoms: Wei, Wu, Shu Han.

Jin; early Song; Southern Qi; Southern Liang; Western Laing;

Southern Zhen; Early Yen; Early and Later Qin; Northern, Eastern

and Western Wei; Northern Zhou; Northern Qi.

Earlier and Later Liang; Western, Later and Southern Yen

Sui.

Korea: Silla and Goguryeo.

Japan.

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THE ROMAN WORLD

Legendary Kings of Rome

Roman Emperors (and empresses) to AD 395

Western Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 476)

Eastern Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 491)

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NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE AND POST-ROMAN WORLD.

Britain: Pre-Roman tribal states

Ireland: High Kings to the C6th AD

Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse to AD 507

Vandal Kingdom of Africa

Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy

Popes to the early 7th AD