A History of the Ancient near East, Ca. 3000-323 BC.

Intro -- A History of the Ancient Near East -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Charts -- Maps -- Debates -- Boxes -- Documents -- Preface -- Author's Note -- 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 Uruks Aftermath -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 4 Political Centralization in the Late Third Millennium -- 4.1 The Kings of Akkad -- 4.2 The Third Dynasty of Ur -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 6 The Growth of Territorial States in the Early Second Millennium -- 6.1 Shamshi-Adad and the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia -- 6.2 Hammurabis Babylon -- 6.3 The Old Hittite Kingdom -- 6.4 The "Dark Age" -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 10 The Collapse of the Regional System and Its Aftermath -- 10.1 The Events -- 10.2 Interpretation -- 10.3 The Aftermath -- Notes -- Part III Empires.

11 The Near East at the Start of the First Millennium -- 11.1 The Eastern States -- 11.2 The West -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 13 Assyrias 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 Assyrias Fall -- Notes -- 14 The Medes and Babylonians -- 14.1 The Medes and the Anatolian States -- 14.2 The Neo-Babylonian Dynasty -- Notes -- 15 The Creation of a World Empire: Persia -- 15.1 The Sources and Their Challenges -- 15.2 The Rise of Persia and Its Expansion -- 15.3 Governance of the Subject States -- 15.4 The Creation of an Imperial Structure -- 16 Governing a World Empire: Persia -- 16.1 Political Developments -- 16.2 Administration of the Empire -- 16.3 Local Forms of Persian Administration -- 16.4 The End of the Empire -- Notes -- Epilogue -- King Lists -- Guide to Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Comprehensive Time Line -- Index -- EULA.

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