The Ancient Near East, C. 3000-330 BC

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Psychology Press, 1995 - History - 782 pages
"The Ancient Near East embraces a vast geographical area, from the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the east to the Levant and Anatolia, and from the Black Sea in the north to Egypt in the south. It was a region of enormous cultural, political and linguistic diversity. In this authoritative new study, Amélie Kuhrt examines its history from the earliest written documents to the conquest of Alexander the Great, c.3000-330 BC. This work dispels many of the misapprehensions which have surrounded the study of the region. It provides a lucid, up-to-date narrative which takes into account the latest archaeological and textual discoveries and deals with the complex problems of interpretation and methodology. The Ancient Near East is an essential text for all students of history of this region and a valuable introduction for students and scholars working in related subjects, --Cover".
 

Contents

THE LEVANT c 1200c 720 385
1
BABYLONIA c 900539 573
9
INTRODUCTION 11467O
10
MESOPOTAMIA IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC
19
1b The cities c 29002340
27
1c The Empire of Agade
44
1d The Third Dynasty of Ur 21122004
56
Notes 646
72
16
190
late dynasty XVIII 14031306 13901295
194
Roads 692
203
dynasties XIX and XX
204
4e The New Kingdom state
211
the formation of a small Levantine state c 1200900 417
214
Notes 701
224
THE HITTITES
225

THE OLD BABYLONIAN
74
8a The seapeoples 386
75
2b Ashur in the Old Assyrian period c 2000c 1800
81
2c The Old Assyrian merchants in Anatolia c 1900c 1830
90
Chronology of predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
99
2e Hammurabi and the First Dynasty of Babylon 18941595
108
11f The cities of Babylonia in the Late Babylonian period 610
116
EGYPT FROM DYNASTY I TO DYNASTY XVII
118
8c The survival of Late Bronze Age centres 401
123
dynasties XXIXXV 1069664 623
124
3a The formation of the Egyptian state
125
c 26862181
135
Old Kingdom
136
13e The structure of the Achaemenid empire 676
140
12
152
3c Herakleopolis and the rise of Thebes c 21801991
154
3d Egypt in the Middle Kingdom c 2040c 1720 20231720
161
3e The Second Intermediate Period and Hyksos rule in Egypt
173
14
174
The great powers c 1600c 1050
183
Chronology of Hittite kings
230
Sc The Hittite Old Kingdom c 1650c 1500
238
19
248
5d The Hittite Empire c 1430 1420c 1200
250
Se The Hittite state
266
SYRIA AND THE LEVANT
283
6b Ugarit
300
6c Emar
314
MESOPOTAMIA c 1600c 900
332
21
335
Babylonia among the great powers
339
7b Assyria in the Middle Assyrian period c 1400c 1050
348
23
357
THE NEOASSYRIAN EMPIRE 934610 473
358
664525 636
362
the classical period c 1450c 1100
365
the end of the Kassites and succeeding dynasties
374
24
375
c 900605 576
376
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