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A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC /

Van de Mieroop, Marc

A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC / Marc Van De Mieroop. - Third edition. - Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley/Blackwell, 2016. - xx, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Blackwell history of the ancient world .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-384) and index.

Introductory concerns -- Part I. City-states -- Origins : the Uruk phenomenon -- Competing city-states : the early dynastic period -- Political centralization in the late third millennium -- The Near East in the early second millennium -- The growth of territorial states in the early second millennium -- Part II. Territorial states -- The club of the great powers -- The western states of the late second millennium -- Kassites, Assyrians, and Elamites -- The collapse of the regional system and its aftermath -- Part III. Empires -- The Near East at the start of the first millennium -- The rise of Assyria -- Assyria's world domination -- The Medes and Babylonians -- The creation of a world empire : Persia -- Governing a world empire : Persia -- Epilogue -- King lists -- Guide to further reading -- Comprehensive time line.

9781118718162 (paperback)

2015005041


Middle East--History--To 622.

ისტორია უძველესი ახლო აღმოსავლეთი - ისტორია - 522 წლამდე

DS62.2 / .V34 2016

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