Chester G. Starr.
A History of the Ancient World.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

The current edition (fourth, 1991) is described at OUP USA, OUP UK, and Amazon.com.

An introductory survey of ancient history (the Near East, Greece, and Rome) through the partition of the Roman Empire and the dissolution of the western empire in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. A very good starting point for students of ancient history and the foundations of Western Civilization.