A history of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Blackwell history of the ancient world
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory concerns
- Part I. City-states
- Origins : the Uruk phenomenon
- Competing city-states : the early dynastic period
- Political centralization in the late third millennium
- The Near East in the early second millennium
- The growth of territorial states in the early second millennium
- Part II. Territorial states
- The club of the great powers
- The western states of the late second millennium
- Kassites, Assyrians, and Elamites
- The collapse of the regional system and its aftermath
- Part III. Empires
- The Near East at the start of the first millennium
- The rise of Assyria
- Assyria's world domination
- The Medes and Babylonians
- The creation of a world empire : Persia
- Governing a world empire : Persia
- Epilogue
- King lists
- Guide to further reading
- Comprehensive time line.