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Revolutionizing a world : from small states to universalism in the pre-Islamic Near East /
This book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East's social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Cen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; List of figures and tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Why this book?; 1.2 Central argument: universalism and its social foundations; 1.2.1 Definition of empire; 1.2.2 Research argument; 1.3 Universalism and ancient globalization; 1.4 Structure of presentation; 2 Historical overview; 2.1 From the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age; 2.1.1 Early Bronze Age (3000-2000 BCE); 2.1.2 Middle Bronze Age (2000-1600 BCE); 2.1.3 Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (1600-1050 BCE); 2.1.4 The Early Iron Age (1050-800 BCE)
- 2.2 The Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 800-612 BCE)2.3 Neo-Babylonians, Medes and others (626-550 BCE); 2.4 The Achaemenid Empire (559-330 BCE); 2.5 The Seleucid Empire and its contemporaries (312-64 BCE); 2.6 The Parthians and the Romans; 2.7 The Sasanian Empire and its contemporaries; 2.8 Towards cohesion; Notes; 3 Methods of analysis; 3.1 Archaeological surveys and measuring settlement structures; 3.1.1 Methodology: quantitative and qualitative interpretation; 3.1.2 Methodology: measuring settlement interaction; 3.1.2.1 Background: approaches to spatial interaction modelling
- 3.1.2.2 Spatial interaction entropy maximization details3.1.2.3 Further analysis of spatial interactions; 3.1.2.4 Physical differences in settlements; 3.2 Material culture and measuring cultural change; 3.3 Other measures; 4 Settlement patterns and spatial interaction modelling; 4.1 Case study: Southern Mesopotamia; 4.2 Case study: the Khabur Triangle; 4.3 Case study: southwest Iran; 4.4 Case study: Central Anatolia; 4.5 Case study: western Syria, southern Anatolia and the Northern Levant; 4.6 Case study: the Southern Levant; 4.7 Summary; 5 The changing nature of cities and other settlements
- 5.1 Large pre-AoE cities5.1.1 Uruk; 5.1.2 Ur; 5.1.3 Ebla; 5.1.4 Mari; 5.1.5 Dur-Untash; 5.1.6 Hattusha; 5.1.7 Hazor and Southern Levant cities; 5.1.8 Amarna; 5.2 AoE cities; 5.2.1 Kalhu, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh; 5.2.2 Babylon; 5.2.3 Persepolis; 5.2.4 Ctesiphon; 5.2.5 Antioch; 5.2.6 Alexandria; 5.2.7 Dura Europos; 5.3 Spaces in between: the ruralization of the countryside; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Long-distance trade and economy before and during the age of empires; 6.1 Long-distance trade in the pre-AoE; 6.2 Long-distance trade during the AoE; 6.2.1 The frankincense and myrrh trade
- 6.2.2 Pepper and the Indian Ocean trade6.2.3 Coinage; 6.3 Private corporations during the AoE; 6.4 Merchant colonies; 6.5 Speed of travel; 6.6 Conclusion: the factors that distinguish pre-AoE and AoE trade; 7 Material culture hybridization; 7.1 Background; 7.2 Material culture hybridization in the pre-AoE; 7.3 Material culture hybridization during the AoE; 7.3.1 The Iron Age and the Persian periods; 7.3.2 The Hellenistic and Roman-Parthian periods; 7.4 Conclusions; 8 The development of universal governments; 8.1 Pre-AoE governing; 8.1.1 City-states; 8.1.2 Empires; 8.2 Governing in the AoE