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A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC
The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the rich and complex history of the ancient Near Eastern world, with new historical data and evidence throughout

A History of the Ancient Near East presents a comprehensive overview of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the region. Surveying three millennia of Near Eastern history in a single volume, this classroom-proven textbook explores 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. Concise, student-friendly chapters guide readers through major historical events and 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.

Incorporating the latest research in the rapidly developing field, the fourth edition of A History of the Ancient Near East contains entirely new sections on new archaeological discoveries and textual findings. Streamlined and improved chapters—based on feedback from undergraduate students, reviewers, and lecturers with direct teaching experience with the textbook—are supported by new date maps and color images, additional "Key Debate" boxes, and a fully up-to-date bibliography.

Presented in an easy-to-understand narrative style, A History of the Ancient Near East:

  • Explores recent discoveries that have shaped current discourse on the Ancient Near East
  • Highlights the strengths and limitations of the original sources cited in the text
  • Offers in-depth yet accessible coverage of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Discusses differing interpretations of the causes of the collapse of the Bronze Age
  • Engages students with various perspectives on critical issues, such as why people moved into cities
  • Contains detailed maps, historical timelines, images and illustrations, and an extensive bibliography

Integrating primary sources, contemporary scholarship, and a wealth of supplementary materials, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC, Fourth Edition, remains an essential resource for undergraduate and introductory graduate students taking courses on archaeology or ancient Near Eastern history, as well as general readers with an interest in the ancient world and the Bible.

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A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC
The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the rich and complex history of the ancient Near Eastern world, with new historical data and evidence throughout

A History of the Ancient Near East presents a comprehensive overview of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the region. Surveying three millennia of Near Eastern history in a single volume, this classroom-proven textbook explores 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. Concise, student-friendly chapters guide readers through major historical events and 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.

Incorporating the latest research in the rapidly developing field, the fourth edition of A History of the Ancient Near East contains entirely new sections on new archaeological discoveries and textual findings. Streamlined and improved chapters—based on feedback from undergraduate students, reviewers, and lecturers with direct teaching experience with the textbook—are supported by new date maps and color images, additional "Key Debate" boxes, and a fully up-to-date bibliography.

Presented in an easy-to-understand narrative style, A History of the Ancient Near East:

  • Explores recent discoveries that have shaped current discourse on the Ancient Near East
  • Highlights the strengths and limitations of the original sources cited in the text
  • Offers in-depth yet accessible coverage of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Discusses differing interpretations of the causes of the collapse of the Bronze Age
  • Engages students with various perspectives on critical issues, such as why people moved into cities
  • Contains detailed maps, historical timelines, images and illustrations, and an extensive bibliography

Integrating primary sources, contemporary scholarship, and a wealth of supplementary materials, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC, Fourth Edition, remains an essential resource for undergraduate and introductory graduate students taking courses on archaeology or ancient Near Eastern history, as well as general readers with an interest in the ancient world and the Bible.

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

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

by Marc Van De Mieroop
A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC

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

by Marc Van De Mieroop

Overview

The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the rich and complex history of the ancient Near Eastern world, with new historical data and evidence throughout

A History of the Ancient Near East presents a comprehensive overview of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the region. Surveying three millennia of Near Eastern history in a single volume, this classroom-proven textbook explores 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. Concise, student-friendly chapters guide readers through major historical events and 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.

Incorporating the latest research in the rapidly developing field, the fourth edition of A History of the Ancient Near East contains entirely new sections on new archaeological discoveries and textual findings. Streamlined and improved chapters—based on feedback from undergraduate students, reviewers, and lecturers with direct teaching experience with the textbook—are supported by new date maps and color images, additional "Key Debate" boxes, and a fully up-to-date bibliography.

Presented in an easy-to-understand narrative style, A History of the Ancient Near East:

  • Explores recent discoveries that have shaped current discourse on the Ancient Near East
  • Highlights the strengths and limitations of the original sources cited in the text
  • Offers in-depth yet accessible coverage of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Discusses differing interpretations of the causes of the collapse of the Bronze Age
  • Engages students with various perspectives on critical issues, such as why people moved into cities
  • Contains detailed maps, historical timelines, images and illustrations, and an extensive bibliography

Integrating primary sources, contemporary scholarship, and a wealth of supplementary materials, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC, Fourth Edition, remains an essential resource for undergraduate and introductory graduate students taking courses on archaeology or ancient Near Eastern history, as well as general readers with an interest in the ancient world and the Bible.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781394210220
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 10/29/2024
Series: Blackwell History of the Ancient World
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 184,010
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Marc Van De Mieroop is Miriam Champion Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. He has also taught at Oxford University and Yale University. He is the author of many books on various aspects of the histories of the ancient Near East and Egypt, including A History of Ancient Egypt, King Hammurabi of Babylon, The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II, Philosophy Before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia, and Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.

List of Charts.

List of Maps.

List of Boxes.

List of Documents.

Preface to Second Edition.

Preface to First Edition.

Acknowledgments.

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 Uruk’s Aftermath.

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.

4. Political Centralization in the Late Third Millennium.

4.1 The Kings of Akkad.

4.2 The Third Dynasty of Ur.

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.

6. The Growth of Territorial States in the Early Second Millennium.

6.1 Shamshi-Adad and the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia.

6.2 Hammurabi’s Babylon.

6.3 The Old Hittite Kingdom.

6.4 The “Dark Age”.

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.

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.

10. The Collapse of the Regional System and its Aftermath.

10.1 The Events.

10.2 Interpretation.

10.3 The Aftermath.

Part III: Empires:.

11. The Near East at the Start of the First Millennium.

11.1 The Eastern States.

11.2 The West.

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.

13. Assyria’s 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 Assyria’s Fall.

14. The Medes and Babylonians.

14.1 The Medes and the Anatolian States.

14.2 The Neo-Babylonian Dynasty.

15. The Persian Empire.

15.1 The Rise of Persia and its Expansion.

15.2 Political Developments.

15.3 Organization of the Empire.

15.4 Alexander of Macedon.

King Lists.

Guide to Further Reading.

Index

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