Liverani, Mario.
London New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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- Originally published in Italian as Antico Oriente ©1988, 2011, Gius. Laterza & Figli.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 580-599) and index.
- The ancient Near East as a historical problem — The geography of the ancient Near East — The Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods — The urban revolution — The rise and fall of the first urbanisation — Mesopotamia in the early dynastic period — The rise of Ebla — The Akkadian empire — The third dynasty of Ur — The crisis of the second urbanisation — The intermediate period of Isin and Larsa — The old Assyrian period — The Mari age — Hammurabi of Babylon — Anatolia in the old Hittite period — The late Bronze Age : technologies and ideologies — The rise of Mitanni — The Hittite empire — Syria and the Levant in the late Bronze Age — The middle Assyrian kingdom — Kassite Babylonia — Crisis and reorganization — Israel — The Phoenicians — The Arameans in Syria and Mesopotamia — The neo-Hittite states — Assyria, Babylonia, and Elam in the 12th to 9th century BC — The rise of the neo-Assyrian empire — The structure of the neo-Assyrian empire — The periphery of the neo-Assyrian empire — The fall of the empire and the rise of the Chaldeans — The Medes and the rise of the Persians.
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