A history of the ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 B.C. / Marc Van de Mieroop.

Author
Van de Mieroop, Marc [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed.
Published/​Created
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Description
xix, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
Blackwell history of the ancient world. [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-327) and index.
Contents
  • 1. Introductory concerns
  • 1.1. What is the Ancient Near East?
  • 1.2. The sources
  • 1.3. Geography
  • 1.4. Prehistoric developments --
  • pt. 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. Uruk's aftermath
  • 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
  • 4. Political centralization in the late third millennium
  • 4.1. The kings of Akkad
  • 4.2. The third dynasty of Ur
  • 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
  • 6. The growth of territorial states in the early second millennium
  • 6.1. Shamshi-Adad and the kingdom of upper Mesopotamia
  • 6.2. Hammurabi's Babylon
  • 6.3. The Old Hittite kingdom
  • 6.4. The "Dark Age" --
  • pt. 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
  • 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
  • 10. The collapse of the regional system and its aftermath
  • 10.1. The events
  • 10.2. Interpretation
  • 10.3. The aftermath --
  • pt. III. Empires
  • 11. The Near East at the start of the first millennium
  • 11.1. The Eastern states
  • 11.2. The West
  • 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
  • 13. Assyria's 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. Assyria's fall
  • 14. The Medes and Babylonians
  • 14.1. The Medes and the Anatolian states
  • 14.2. The Neo-Babylonian dynasty
  • 15. The Persian empire
  • 15.1. The rise of Persia and its expansion
  • 15.2. Political developments
  • 15.3. Organization of the empire
  • 15.4. Alexander of Macedon.
ISBN
  • 9781405149105 (printed case hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1405149108 (printed case hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781405149112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405149116 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006006920
OCLC
64390584
Other standard number
  • 99946276477
RCP
C - S
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