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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795946903321

Autore

Van de Mieroop Marc

Titolo

A history of the ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC / / Marc Van De Mieroop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , 2016

2016

ISBN

9781118718179

1118718178

Edizione

[3rd ed]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Blackwell History of the Ancient World

Classificazione

227

939/.4

Disciplina

939/.4

Soggetti

Middle East History To 622

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. [370]-384) and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.