The Cambridge Ancient History Volume I Part 2 Early History of the Middle East

Edwards, I. E. S & Gadd, The Late C. J. & Hammond. N. G. L. edited by

ISBN 10: 0521077915 / ISBN 13: 9780521077910

Edité par Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge England, 1971

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6 1/2 x 9 3//8" 1058 pages. one fold out map has a tear. ex college library. spine label inked out, stamped on page edges, inside front cover and contents page. This is Voume One part two only. shipping will be extra for this heavy book, please inquire.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Cambridge Ancient History Volume I Part 2 Early History of the Middle East
• Éditeur: Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge England
• Date de parution: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521077915
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521077910
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: third edition.
• État de l'article: very good
• État de la jaquette: no jacket

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Synopsis

Part II of volume I deals with the history of the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt, a long period of political unification and stability enabled the kings of the Old Kingdom to develop and exploit natural resources, to mobilize both the manpower and the technical skill to build the pyramids, and to encourage sculptors in the production of works of superlative quality. After a period of anarchy and civil war at the end of the Sixth Dynasty the local rulers of Thebes established the so-called Middle Kingdom, restoring an age of political calm in which the arts could again flourish. In Western Asia, Babylonia was the main centre and source of civilisation, and her moral, though not always her military, hegemony was recognized and accepted by the surrounding countries of Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Assyria and Elam. The history of the region is traced from the late Uruk and Jamdat Nasr periods up to the rise of Hammurabi, the most significant developments being the invention of writing in the Uruk period, the emergence of the Semites as a political factor under Sargon, and the success of the centralized bureaucracy under the Third Dynasty of Ur.