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OF THE ANCIENT KIND

GLOBAL

ENCOUNTERS

Ancient civilisations are often studied in isolation

• yet from antiquity, cultures became connected

like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Michael Scott looks

at five interactions between lands linked by

politics, trade, war and religion

PICTURE CAPTIONS: COLUMN 1 (TOP TO BOTTOM): The Parthenon; Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin emperor; the

Great Stupa at Sanchi, a Buddhist monument built in the third century BC; human-like creatures in an illustration

based on the Greek historian Ctesias’s account of India. COLUMN 2 (TOP TO BOTTOM): the Athenian statesman

Solon debates with students; Nalanda monastery in northern India. COLUMN 3 (TOP TO BOTTOM): A third-

century AD Chinese mural of the Buddha; Indian emperor Chandragupta Maurya

HISTORY