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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