Marc van de Mieroop

A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. * Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of supplementary materials * Addresses the wide variety of political, social, and cultural developments in the ancient Near East * Updated features include new "Key Debate" boxes at the end of each chapter to engage students with various perspectives on a range of critical issues; a comprehensive timeline of events; and 46 new illustrations, including 12 color photos * Features a new chapter addressing governance and continuity in the region during the Persian Empire * Offers in-depth, accessible discussions of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118718230
• Artikelnr.: 43085905

Autorenporträt

Marc Van De Mieroop is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books on various aspects of the histories of the ancient Near East and Egypt, including The Ancient Mesopotamian City (1997, 1999), King Hammurabi of Babylon (Blackwell, 2004), The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and A History of Ancient Egypt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii List of Charts xi List of Maps xii List of
Debates xiv List of Boxes xv List of Documents xvi Preface xviii Author's
Note xxi 1 Introductory Concerns 1 1.1 What Is the Ancient Near East? 1 1.2
The Sources 3 1.3 Geography 6 1.4 Prehistoric Developments 10 Part I
City-States 19 2 Origins: The Uruk Phenomenon 21 2.1 The Origins of Cities
23 2.2 The Development of Writing and Administration 30 2.3 The "Uruk
Expansion" 37 2.4 Uruk's Aftermath 41 3 Competing City-States: The Early
Dynastic Period 44 3.1 The Written Sources and Their Historical Uses 45 3.2
Political Developments in Southern Mesopotamia 48 3.3 The Wider Near East
56 3.4 Early Dynastic Society 60 3.5 Scribal Culture 63 4 Political
Centralization in the Late Third Millennium 67 4.1 The Kings of Akkad 68
4.2 The Third Dynasty of Ur 79 5 The Near East in the Early Second
Millennium 90 5.1 Nomads and Sedentary People 92 5.2 Babylonia 95 5.3
Assyria and the East 100 5.4 Mari and the West 107 6 The Growth of
Territorial States in the Early Second Millennium 113 6.1 Shamshi-Adad and
the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia 115 6.2 Hammurabi's Babylon 118 6.3 The
Old Hittite Kingdom 127 6.4 The "Dark Age" 131 Part II Territorial States
135 7 The Club of the Great Powers 137 7.1 The Political System 138 7.2
Political Interactions: Diplomacy and Trade 142 7.3 Regional Competition:
Warfare 151 7.4 Shared Ideologies and Social Organizations 153 8 The
Western States of the Late Second Millennium 159 8.1 Mittani 160 8.2 The
Hittite New Kingdom 165 8.3 Syria-Palestine 174 9 Kassites, Assyrians, and
Elamites 182 9.1 Babylonia 183 9.2 Assyria 190 9.3 The Middle Elamite
Kingdom 195 10 The Collapse of the Regional System and Its Aftermath 202
10.1 The Events 203 10.2 Interpretation 210 10.3 The Aftermath 213 Part III
Empires 221 11 The Near East at the Start of the First Millennium 223 11.1
The Eastern States 224 11.2 The West 232 12 The Rise of Assyria 246 12.1
Patterns of Assyrian Imperialism 247 12.2 The Historical Record 253 12.3
Ninth-Century Expansion 255 12.4 Internal Assyrian Decline 261 13 Assyria's
World Domination 265 13.1 The Creation of an Imperial Structure 266 13.2
The Defeat of the Great Rivals 270 13.3 The Administration and Ideology of
the Empire 277 13.4 Assyrian Culture 279 13.5 Assyria's Fall 284 14 The
Medes and Babylonians 289 14.1 The Medes and the Anatolian States 290 14.2
The Neo-Babylonian Dynasty 294 15 The Creation of a World Empire: Persia
308 15.1 The Sources and Their Challenges 309 15.2 The Rise of Persia and
Its Expansion 310 15.3 Governance of the Subject States 315 15.4 The
Creation of an Imperial Structure 319 16 Governing a World Empire: Persia
327 16.1 Political Developments 327 16.2 Administration of the Empire 331
16.3 Local Forms of Persian Administration 335 16.4 The End of the Empire
342 Epilogue 346 King Lists 348 Guide to Further Reading 364 Bibliography
370 Comprehensive Time Line 385 Index 389