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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joannès, Francis
Otros Autores: Nevill, Antonia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
Temas:
To 634
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Civilization.
Kultur
Iraq > History > To 634.
Iraq > Civilization > To 634.
Irak > Histoire > Jusqu'à 634.
Irak > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 634.
Iraq.
Mesopotamien
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The world of the peoples of Mesopotamia : places and peoples
  • The rediscovery of the "Assyrians"
  • The evolution of Mesopotamian historiography
  • Political history of the Assyrian empire (934-610 BC)
  • The first expansion (934-827)
  • Crisis and refoundation (823-727)
  • The Sargonid empire (721-610)
  • Document : one of Ashurnasirpal II's campaigns in the east of Anatolia in 865
  • Control of the imperial territory : military organisation
  • At the hub of the empire
  • The provinces
  • Document : extract from the Census of Harran
  • The centre of Assyrian government
  • The king of Assyria
  • The exercise of royal power
  • Where the power lay
  • Documents : the king of Assyria and his servants : letter from the exorcist Adad-šum-uṣur
  • The setting for a royal life : Sargon II's palace at Dûr-Šarrukîn
  • Babylonia : from kingdom to empire (900-539 BC) : Babylonia from the ninth to the seventh centuries
  • The glory of Babylon
  • From the Babylonian to the Persian Empire (561-539)
  • Document : the dreams of King Nabonidus
  • Society and economy in the neo-Babylonian period
  • Social and economic strata
  • Economic activities
  • Management of the large organisations
  • Documents : the life of Babylonian notables : Lurindu's marriage
  • Land management : leasing contract
  • Religion and culture in Babylonia in the first millennium BC
  • The pantheon and religious concepts
  • How religion was organized
  • Babylon, cultural capital
  • Document : an extract from the fourth tablet of the Epic of Erra
  • Achaemenid Babylonia (539-331 BC) : a central province of the Persian empire
  • A reserve of soldiers
  • Tribute and intermediaries
  • Document : financial activities in the Achaemenid era : leasing a royal tax
  • From the Seleucids to the Parthians (331 BC to AD 75) : the evolution of the satrapy of Babylonia
  • Socio-economic realities
  • The slow end of a civilisation
  • Document : religious activities in the Seleucid period : renting out a prebend
  • Political chronology.

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