The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 1, Part 2, Early History of the Middle East 3rd Edition. - EDWARDS, I. E. S. and GADD, C. J. and HAMMOND, N. G. L.,
Early History of the Middle East
KORTE INHOUD
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 ...
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1971 Uitgever: Cambridge University Press 1080 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0521077915 ISBN-13: 9780521077910Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge, 1971. XXIII,1058p. (Folding) maps, tables, plans. Cloth. Gilded upper edge. Gilt titling on spine. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Uitgever: University Press] [Jaar: 1971] [Titel: THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY, VOL. I. Part 2: Early History of the Middle-East. Edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, N.G.L. Hammond.]
