Civilizations of ancient Iraq /
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Language: English
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Princeton University Press,
2009.
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Call Number: DS70.7 .F67 2009
Table of Contents:
- •Illustrations •Preface •1. In the Beginning •Of Tigris and Euphrates •The First Villages •From the Foothills to the Plains •2. The Birthplace of Civilization •The First Cities •From City to State •Sumerians Abroad •Setting Words on Clay •The Uruk Phenomenon •3. Early City-States •New Polities •Ur and the Royal Graves •When Kingship Came down from Heaven •Shuruppak, City of Wisdom •A Tale of Two Cities •4. Kings of the Four Quarters of the World •The First Empire •Naram-Sin: When Kingship Went up to Heaven •A Golden Age of Sumerian Culture •Management and Crisis •5. The Age of Hammurabi •The Amorites •Rim-Sin, King of Larsa •Shamshi-Adad, King of Upper Mesopotamia •Hammurabi, King of Babylon •Arts of the Table and Bedroom •The Epic of Gilgamesh •The End of Amorite Rule •6. Babylonia in the Family of Nations •The Kassites •Kassite Statecraft and Society •The Club of Great Powers •Science and Literature •The Hurrians •The End of Kassite Rule •7. The Assyrian Achievement •The Rise of Assur •The Middle Assyrian Empire •The Neo-Assyrian Empire •Assurnasirpal II and Nimrud •Sennacherib and Nineveh •The Library of Assurbanipal •The Fall of Assyria •8. The Glory of Babylon •The Last Babylonian Empire •Nabonidus, King of Babylon •Learning and Memory in Babylonia •Works and Days •The Persian Empire •9. Mesopotamia between Two Worlds •Alexander the Great and the Seleucids •Antiochus I Soter, King of Asia •The Realm and Its Economy •The Culture of Hellenistic Babylonia •The Rise of Parthia •Mithridates I and the Reunification of Iraq •Parthian Iraq •Roman Armies in Iraq •The End of Mesopotamian Civilization •10. Sassanian Iraq •The Sassanian Empire and Religious Pluralism •By the Waters of Babylon: Judaism in Iraq •Christianity in Iraq •Sassanian Society, Statecraft, and Economy •Arab Settlement in Iraq •Sassanian Art •Shapur I and Shapur II •The Sassanians and Byzantium •Prelude to Conquest •Epilogue Discovery and Destruction of Ancient Iraq •Exploration and Decipherment •Archaeology Past and Present •The Nation of Iraq and Cultural Heritage •The Gulf War and Cultural Destruction •The Iraq War and Cultural Devastation •Notes •Bibliography •Index