The ancient Near East : history, society and economy

1. Verfasser: Liverani, Mario.
Weitere Verfasser: Tabatabai, Soraia, , [ÜbersetzerIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London and New York : Routledge, 2014.
Umfang/Format: xxiv, 619 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The ancient Near East as a historical problem
  • The geography of the ancient Near East
  • The Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods
  • The urban revolution
  • The rise and fall of the first urbanisation
  • Mesopotamia in the early dynastic period
  • The rise of Ebla
  • The Akkadian empire
  • The third dynasty of Ur
  • The crisis of the second urbanisation
  • The "intermediate period" of Isin and Larsa
  • The old Assyrian period
  • The Mari age
  • Hammurabi of Babylon
  • Anatolia in the old Hittite period
  • The late Bronze Age : technologies and ideologies
  • The rise of Mitanni
  • The Hittite empire
  • Syria and the Levant in the late Bronze Age
  • The middle Assyrian kingdom
  • Kassite Babylonia
  • Crisis and reorganisation
  • Israel
  • The Phoenicians
  • The Arameans in Syria and Mesopotamia
  • The neo-Hittite states
  • Assyria, Babylonia, and Elam in the 12th to 9th century BC
  • The rise of the neo-Assyrian empire
  • The structure of the neo-Assyrian empire
  • The periphery of the neo-Assyrian empire
  • The fall of the empire and the rise of the Chaldeans
  • The Medes and the rise of the Persians.