رقم التسجيلة
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2879
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نوع المادة
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book
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ردمك
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9781405149112
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رقم الطلب
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DS62.2.V34
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المؤلف
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Van De Mieroop, Marc
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العنوان
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A History of the Ancient Near East , ca. 3000 - 323 BC . / Marc Van De Mieroop
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بيان الطبعة
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2nd ed
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بيانات النشر
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Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
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الوصف المادي
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xxii, 341 p ; ill,maps,b&w
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بيان السلسلة
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Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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ملاحظات
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Includes black-and-white illustrations, maps, charts, listings and text-boxes
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المحتويات / النص
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1. Introductory concerns
1.1 What is the ancient Near East?
1.2 The sources
1.3 Geography
1.4 Prehistoric developments
Part I: City-States
2. Origins: The Uruk Phenomenon
2.1 The Origins of Cities
2.2 The Development of Writing and Administration
2.3 The "Uruk Expansion"
2.4 Uruk's Aftermath
3. Competing City-States: The Early Dynastic Period
3.1 The Written Sources and their Historical Uses
3.2 Political Developments in Southern Mesopotamia
3.3 The Wider Near East
3.4 Early Dynastic Society
3.5 Scribal Culture
4. Political Centralization in the Late Third Millennium
4.1 The Kings of Akkad
4.2 The Third Dynasty of Ur
5. The Near East in the Early Second Millennium
5.1 Nomads and Sedentary People
5.2 Babylonia
5.3 Assyria and the East
5.4 Mari and the West
6. The Growth of Territorial States in the Early Second Millennium
6.1 Shamshi-Adad and the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia
6.2 Hammurabi’s Babylon
6.3 The Old Hittite Kingdom
6.4 The "Dark Age"
Part II: Territorial States
7. The Club of the Great Powers
7.1 The Political System
7.2 Political Interactions: Diplomacy and Trade
7.3 Regional Competition: Warfare
7.4 Shared Ideologies and Social Organizations
8. The Western States of the Late Second Millennium
8.1 Mittani
8.2 The Hittite New Kingdom
8.3 Syria-Palestine
9. Kassites, Assyrians, and Elamites
9.1 Babylonia
9.2 Assyria
9.3 The Middle Elamite Kingdom
10. The Collapse of the Regional System and its Aftermath
10.1 The Events
10.2 Interpretation
10.3 The Aftermath
Part III: Empires
11. The Near East at the Start of the First Millennium
11.1 The Eastern States
11.2 The West
12. The Rise of Assyria
12.1 Patterns of Assyrian Imperialism
12.2 The Historical Record
12.3 Ninth-Century Expansion
12.4 Internal Assyrian Decline
13. Assyria's World Domination
13.1 The Creation of an Imperial Structure
13.2 The Defeat of the Great Rivals
13.3 The Administration and Ideology of the Empire
13.4 Assyrian Culture
13.5 Assyria's Fall
14. The Medes and Babylonians
14.1 The Medes and the Anatolian States
14.2 The Neo-Babylonian Dynasty
15. The Persian Empire
15.1 The Rise of Persia and its Expansion
15.2 Political Developments
15.3 Organization of the Empire
15.4 Alexander of Macedon
King Lists
Guide to Further Reading
Index
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المستخلص
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his book presents a clear, concise history of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East.
Bestselling narrative of the complex history of the ancient Near East.
Addresses political, social, and cultural developments.
Contains in-depth discussion of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Includes numerous maps, illustrations, and a selection of Near Eastern texts in translation.
Integrates new research, and greatly expands the guides to further reading for this second edition.
- http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405149116,descCd-description.html
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المواضيع
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Middle East - History - To 622
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