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A History of the Ancient near East, Ca. 3000-323 BC
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2015.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- A History of the Ancient Near East
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Charts
- Maps
- Debates
- Boxes
- Documents
- Preface
- Author's Note
- 1 Introductory Concerns
- 1.1 What Is the Ancient Near East?
- 1.2 The Sources
- 1.3 Geography
- 1.4 Prehistoric Developments
- Part I City-States
- 2 Origins: The Uruk Phenomenon
- 2.1 The Origins of Cities
- 2.2 The Development of Writing and Administration
- 2.3 The "Uruk Expansion"
- 2.4 Uruks Aftermath
- Notes
- 3 Competing City-States: The Early Dynastic Period
- 3.1 The Written Sources and Their Historical Uses
- 3.2 Political Developments in Southern Mesopotamia
- 3.3 The Wider Near East
- 3.4 Early Dynastic Society
- 3.5 Scribal Culture
- Notes
- 4 Political Centralization in the Late Third Millennium
- 4.1 The Kings of Akkad
- 4.2 The Third Dynasty of Ur
- Notes
- 5 The Near East in the Early Second Millennium
- 5.1 Nomads and Sedentary People
- 5.2 Babylonia
- 5.3 Assyria and the East
- 5.4 Mari and the West
- Notes
- 6 The Growth of Territorial States in the Early Second Millennium
- 6.1 Shamshi-Adad and the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia
- 6.2 Hammurabis Babylon
- 6.3 The Old Hittite Kingdom
- 6.4 The "Dark Age"
- Notes
- Part II Territorial States
- 7 The Club of the Great Powers
- 7.1 The Political System
- 7.2 Political Interactions: Diplomacy and Trade
- 7.3 Regional Competition: Warfare
- 7.4 Shared Ideologies and Social Organizations
- Notes
- 8 The Western States of the Late Second Millennium
- 8.1 Mittani
- 8.2 The Hittite New Kingdom
- 8.3 Syria-Palestine
- 9 Kassites, Assyrians, and Elamites
- 9.1 Babylonia
- 9.2 Assyria
- 9.3 The Middle Elamite Kingdom
- Notes
- 10 The Collapse of the Regional System and Its Aftermath
- 10.1 The Events
- 10.2 Interpretation
- 10.3 The Aftermath
- Notes
- Part III Empires
- 11 The Near East at the Start of the First Millennium
- 11.1 The Eastern States
- 11.2 The West
- Notes
- 12 The Rise of Assyria
- 12.1 Patterns of Assyrian Imperialism
- 12.2 The Historical Record
- 12.3 Ninth-Century Expansion
- 12.4 Internal Assyrian Decline
- Notes
- 13 Assyrias World Domination
- 13.1 The Creation of an Imperial Structure
- 13.2 The Defeat of the Great Rivals
- 13.3 The Administration and Ideology of the Empire
- 13.4 Assyrian Culture
- 13.5 Assyrias Fall
- Notes
- 14 The Medes and Babylonians
- 14.1 The Medes and the Anatolian States
- 14.2 The Neo-Babylonian Dynasty
- Notes
- 15 The Creation of a World Empire: Persia
- 15.1 The Sources and Their Challenges
- 15.2 The Rise of Persia and Its Expansion
- 15.3 Governance of the Subject States
- 15.4 The Creation of an Imperial Structure
- 16 Governing a World Empire: Persia
- 16.1 Political Developments
- 16.2 Administration of the Empire
- 16.3 Local Forms of Persian Administration
- 16.4 The End of the Empire
- Notes
- Epilogue
- King Lists
- Guide to Further Reading
- Bibliography