The Age of Empires : Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC /
This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Age of Empires
- Introduction
- 1 The world of the peoples of Mesopotamia
- 2 Political history of the Assyrian empire (934-610 BC)
- 3 Control of the imperial territory
- 4 The centre of Assyrian government
- 5 Babylonia: from kingdom to empire (900-539 BC)
- 6 Society and economy in the neo-Babylonian period
- 7 Religion and culture in Babylonia in the first millennium BC
- 8 Achaemenid Babylonia (539-331 BC)
- 9 From the Seleucids to the Parthians (331 BC to AD 75)
- Conclusion
- Political chronology
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Sources of the texts quoted
- Index