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The Age of Empires : Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC / Francis Joannès.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748617555
  • 9781474469593
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 935 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- The Age of Empires -- Introduction -- 1 The world of the peoples of Mesopotamia -- 2 Political history of the Assyrian empire (934-610 BC) -- 3 Control of the imperial territory -- 4 The centre of Assyrian government -- 5 Babylonia: from kingdom to empire (900-539 BC) -- 6 Society and economy in the neo-Babylonian period -- 7 Religion and culture in Babylonia in the first millennium BC -- 8 Achaemenid Babylonia (539-331 BC) -- 9 From the Seleucids to the Parthians (331 BC to AD 75) -- Conclusion -- Political chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Sources of the texts quoted -- Index
Summary: This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and defeated by Pompey for Rome in 64 bc. The book focuses on political history, on the sources and shifts of power and the individuals who wielded it. It also introduces the student to the principal aspects of the religious, social and economic history of the region.The narrative is succinct, backed up by summary tables and maps, and enlivened by lengthy "ations from contemporary documents. The latter are frequently used to illustrate specific case studies. The book ends with a chronology and glossary, as well as an adapted further reading list.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- The Age of Empires -- Introduction -- 1 The world of the peoples of Mesopotamia -- 2 Political history of the Assyrian empire (934-610 BC) -- 3 Control of the imperial territory -- 4 The centre of Assyrian government -- 5 Babylonia: from kingdom to empire (900-539 BC) -- 6 Society and economy in the neo-Babylonian period -- 7 Religion and culture in Babylonia in the first millennium BC -- 8 Achaemenid Babylonia (539-331 BC) -- 9 From the Seleucids to the Parthians (331 BC to AD 75) -- Conclusion -- Political chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Sources of the texts quoted -- Index

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This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and defeated by Pompey for Rome in 64 bc. The book focuses on political history, on the sources and shifts of power and the individuals who wielded it. It also introduces the student to the principal aspects of the religious, social and economic history of the region.The narrative is succinct, backed up by summary tables and maps, and enlivened by lengthy "ations from contemporary documents. The latter are frequently used to illustrate specific case studies. The book ends with a chronology and glossary, as well as an adapted further reading list.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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