Reviews tagging 'Death'

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer

3 reviews

friends2lovers's review

informative medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Incest, Slavery, Suicide, War, and Xenophobia

(None of the above are described in what I would consider explicit or detailed language, though YMMV)

xandra_lyn's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This was a really good overall history, however it was almost too vast, and her focus on China and India seemed rather half-hearted. It should have been titled "the history of the countries that made the west" as that's probably more accurate.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Death, and War

War is a huge theme, so the evils of war are depicted. She doesn't go too deep into torture practices, but she does mention some of them occasionally

annotatedbibliophile's review

informative slow-paced

3.25

I do like how easy to read this book was, however, there are still some things I would have liked to see in this book. The women's side! The only story even remotely looking at how the woman could have felt that we got in this 800-page book, was Cleopatra, and even that was only two pages. When starting a chapter she never uses BC or BCE so I assume BCE, but the timelines don't add up. Lastly, when she talks about an emperor, she talks about them as if you already know who they are. I know and researched the more common one before, but some of the lesser-known ones, Googleing them was like searching for a needle in a haystack.  Read for homeschool on August 20, 2021.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Suicide, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Murder, Incest, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Death, Colonisation, and Blood