The ancient Near East : history, society and economy /

The ancient Near East : history, society and economy /

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Main Author: Liverani, Mario (Author)

Other Authors: Tabatabai, Soraia.

Format: Book

Language: English
Italian

Published: London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Middle East > History > To 622.

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Call Number: DS62.23 .L5813 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • The ancient Near East as a historical problem
  • The geography of the ancient Near East
  • The Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods
  • The urban revolution
  • The rise and fall of the first urbanisation
  • Mesopotamia in the early dynastic period
  • The rise of Ebla
  • The Akkadian empire
  • The third dynasty of Ur
  • The crisis of the second urbanisation
  • The "intermediate period" of Isin and Larsa
  • The old Assyrian period
  • The Mari age
  • Hammurabi of Babylon
  • Anatolia in the old Hittite period
  • The late Bronze Age : technologies and ideologies
  • The rise of Mitanni
  • The Hittite empire
  • Syria and the Levant in the late Bronze Age
  • The middle Assyrian kingdom
  • Kassite Babylonia
  • Crisis and reorganization
  • Israel
  • The Phoenicians
  • The Arameans in Syria and Mesopotamia
  • The neo-Hittite states
  • Assyria, Babylonia, and Elam in the 12th to 9th century BC
  • The rise of the neo-Assyrian empire
  • The structure of the neo-Assyrian empire
  • The periphery of the neo-Assyrian empire
  • The fall of the empire and the rise of the Chaldeans
  • The Medes and the rise of the Persians.