Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia University and University of Oxford)

A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC

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BLACKWELL HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC Fourth Edition "This marvelous book is a classic, and deservedly so. This new edition brings the history up to date with revelations from newly published cuneiform tablets and recent archaeological excavations." -Amanda H. Podany, Professor of History, Cal Poly Pomona "An outstanding resource for studying the history of the ANE... It is remarkable to find a volume with this subject matter that is as clear and as engaging as what Van De Mieroop has offered here." -Kurtis Peters, RBECS Now in its fourth edition, A History of the Ancient Near East remains one of the most accessible introductions to the rich and complex history of the region available. Integrating original sources, up-to-date scholarship, and extensive supplementary materials, this popular textbook provides student-friendly coverage of the origins of the first cities in Mesopotamia, the growth of the Babylonian and Hittite kingdoms, and the rise of the Assyrian and Persian empires. With an easy-to-understand narrative style, noted historian and lecturer Marc Van De Mieroop guides students through the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near Eastern world. Clear and straightforward chapters describe a wide variety of political, social, and cultural developments, beginning from the invention of writing circa 3000 BC and ending with the conquests of Alexander the Great. This new edition is fully revised to reflect the latest developments in the field, including entirely new sections on recent archaeological discoveries and textual findings. Streamlined and improved chapters are complemented with detailed maps, historical timelines, images and illustrations, and an extensive and up-to-date bibliography. A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC, Fourth Edition, is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and introductory graduate courses on archaeology or ancient Near Eastern history, as well as a valuable resource for general readers with an interest in the ancient world and the Bible.

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Produktdetails

• Blackwell History of the Ancient World
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781394210220
• ISBN-10: 1394210221
• Artikelnr.: 68136805

Autorenporträt

MARC VAN DE MIEROOP is Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. Previously, he taught at Yale University and the University of Oxford. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History and the author of numerous books on the histories of the ancient Near East and Egypt, including A History of Ancient Egypt, King Hammurabi of Babylon, and The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations x
List of Charts xiii
List of Maps xiv
List of Debates xv
List of Boxes xvi
List of Documents xvii
Preface xix
Author's Note xxii
1 Introductory Concerns 1
1.1 What Is the Ancient Near East? 1
1.2 The Sources 4
1.3 Geography 5
1.4 Prehistoric Developments 9
Part I City-States 19
2 Origins: The Uruk Phenomenon 21
2.1 The Origins of Cities 22
2.2 The Development of Writing and Administration 29
2.3 The "Uruk Expansion" 37
2.4 Uruk's Aftermath 39
3 Competing City-States: The Early Dynastic Period 41
3.1 The Written Sources and Their Historical Uses 42
3.2 Political Developments in Southern Mesopotamia 45
3.3 Warfare and Political Centralization 48
3.4 The Wider Near East 52
3.5 Early Dynastic Society 55
3.6 Scribal Culture 58
4 Political Centralization in the Late Third Millennium 63
4.1 The Kings of Akkad 64
4.2 The Third Dynasty of Ur 74
5 The Near East in the Early Second Millennium 85
5.1 Nomads and Sedentary People 86
5.2 Babylonia 90
5.3 Assyria and the East 94
5.4 Mari and the West 100
6 The Growth of Territorial States in the Early Second Millennium 106
6.1 Shamshi-Adad and the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia 108
6.2 Hammurabi's Babylon 111
6.3 The Old Hittite Kingdom 120
6.4 The "Dark Age" 123
Part II Territorial States 127
7 The Club of the Great Powers 129
7.1 The Political System 131
7.2 Political Interactions: Diplomacy and Trade 134
7.3 Regional Competition: Warfare 141
7.4 Shared Ideologies and Social Organizations 143
8 The Western States of the Late Second Millennium 149
8.1 Mittani 150
8.2 The Hittite New Kingdom 155
8.3 Syria-Palestine 163
9 Kassites, Assyrians, and Elamites 171
9.1 Babylonia 172
9.2 Assyria 178
9.3 The Middle Elamite Kingdom 184
10 The Collapse of the Regional System and Its Aftermath 189
10.1 The Events 190
10.2 Interpretation 196
10.3 The Aftermath 198
Part III Empires 207
11 The Near East at the Start of the First Millennium 209
11.1 The Eastern States 210
11.2 The West 218
12 The Rise of Assyria 230
12.1 Patterns of Assyrian Imperialism 231
12.2 The Historical Record 238
12.3 Ninth-Century Expansion 240
12.4 Internal Assyrian Decline 244
13 Assyria's World Domination 248
13.1 The Creation of an Imperial Structure 249
13.2 The Defeat of the Great Rivals 252
13.3 The Administration and Ideology of the Empire 259
13.4 Assyrian Culture 260
13.5 Assyria's Fall 265
14 The Medes and Babylonians 270
14.1 The Medes and the Anatolian States 271
14.2 The Neo-Babylonian Dynasty 275
15 The Creation of a World Empire: Persia 288
15.1 The Sources and Their Challenges 289
15.2 The Rise of Persia and Its Expansion 290
15.3 Governance of the Subject States 295
15.4 The Creation of an Imperial Structure 298
16 Governing a World Empire: Persia 306
16.1 Political Developments 306
16.2 Administration of the Empire 310
16.3 Local Forms of Persian Administration 313
16.4 The End of the Empire 319
Epilogue 323
King Lists 324
Guide to Further Reading 339
Bibliography 345
Comprehensive Time Line 359
Index 363