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020			_a9781118718162
050			_aDS62.2 _b.V34 2016
100			_a Van de Mieroop, Marc, author
245			_aA history of the ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC / _cMarc Van De Mieroop
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260			_bWiley Blackwell, _c2016 _aChichester, West Sussex, UK ; _aMalden, MA, USA :
300			_a xx, 400 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; _c25 cm
440			_aBlackwell history of the ancient world
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505			_a 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
651			_eMiddle East _xHistory _yTo 622
655			_2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _bHistory.
760			_bOnline version: Van de Mieroop, Marc. History of the ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC|bThird edition. |dChichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc.,2016|z9781118718179|w(DLC) 2015009209
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