TY - BOOK AU - Van de Mieroop,Marc TI - A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC T2 - Blackwell history of the ancient world SN - 9781118718162 (paperback) AV - DS62.2 .V34 2016 U1 - 939/.4 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, UK, Malden, MA PB - Wiley/Blackwell KW - Middle East KW - History KW - To 622 KW - ისტორია KW - უძველესი ახლო აღმოსავლეთი - ისტორია - 522 წლამდე N1 - 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 ER -