The Ancient Near East, C. 3000-330 BC"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
List of figures ix | 375 |
Political transformation and the great empires c 1200330 | 383 |
8b The Aramaeans | 393 |
8c The survival of Late Bronze Age centres | 401 |
the formation of a small Levantine state c 1200900 | 417 |
8e The states of the Levant and the Assyrian empire in the ninth | 458 |
THE NEOASSYRIAN EMPIRE 934610 | 473 |
9c Imperial expansion and consolidation 744c 630 | 493 |
705627 | 582 |
11d The NeoBabylonian dynasty 626539 | 589 |
11e The NeoBabylonian empire | 603 |
11f The cities of Babylonia in the Late Babylonian period | 610 |
EGYPT c 1000525 | 623 |
664525 | 636 |
THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE c 550330 | 647 |
13c The formation of the empire | 656 |
9d The structure of the Assyrian empire | 501 |
9e The fall of Assyria | 540 |
ANATOLIA c 900c 550 | 547 |
10b Phrygia and Lydia | 562 |
BABYLONIA c 900539 | 573 |
13d Achaemenid history and its problems | 667 |
13e The structure of the Achaemenid empire | 676 |
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Achaemenid Ahuramazda Anatolia Aramaean Aramaic archaeological army Artaxerxes Ashur Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal's Ashurnasirpal Assyrian empire Assyrian king Babylon battle Briant Cambyses campaign Canaanite Carchemish centres Chaldaean chapter conquest court cult Cyrus Damascus Darius David defeat divine documents dynasty earlier east Egypt Egyptian Elam Elamite Esarhaddon Euphrates evidence excavated frontier gods governor Greek groups Herodotus Hittite important inhabitants Israel Israelite Jerusalem Judah Kalhu king of Assyria king's kingdom kingship land later Levant linked lord Lydia Marduk material Medes military Nabonidus Nabopolassar Napatan Nebuchadnezzar Neo-Hittite Nineveh northern Old Testament palace Parpola period Persian king Philistines Phoenician Phrygian Piye political Postgate probably problems provinces Psammetichus region reign revolt royal inscriptions ruler Sargon Sargon II satrap Saul's scholars sea-peoples Sennacherib settlement seventh century Shalmaneser Sippar soldiers sources stele story temple territory throne Tiglath-pileser Tiglath-pileser III tribes Urartian Urartu Uruk Yahweh