A history of the ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC /
Van de Mieroop, Marc, author
A history of the ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC / Marc Van De Mieroop - 3rd - Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2016 - xx, 400 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm - Blackwell history of the ancient world .
Includes bibliographical references 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
Middle East --History--To 622
--History.
DS62.2 / .V34 2016
A history of the ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC / Marc Van De Mieroop - 3rd - Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2016 - xx, 400 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm - Blackwell history of the ancient world .
Includes bibliographical references 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
Middle East --History--To 622
--History.
DS62.2 / .V34 2016