02173cam a2200373 i 4500 historyofancient0000vand_w8g2 CaSfIA 20250725142052.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 150305s2016 enk ob 001 0 eng 2015009209 9781118718179 (Adobe PDF) 9781118718230 (ePub) 9781118718162 (paperback) (OCoLC)904507201 DLC eng DLC rda DLC CaSfIA pcc aw----- DS62.2 939/.4 23 Van de Mieroop, Marc. A history of the ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC / Marc Van De Mieroop. Third edition. 1508 Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2016. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introductory concerns -- Part I. City-states -- Origins : the Uruk phenomenon -- Competing city-states : the early dynastic period -- Political centralization in the late third millennium -- The Near East in the early second millennium -- The growth of territorial states in the early second millennium -- Part II. Territorial states -- The club of the great powers -- The western states of the late second millennium -- Kassites, Assyrians, and Elamites -- The collapse of the regional system and its aftermath -- Part III. Empires -- The Near East at the start of the first millennium -- The rise of Assyria -- Assyria's world domination -- The Medes and Babylonians -- The creation of a world empire : Persia -- Governing a world empire : Persia -- Epilogue -- King lists -- Guide to further reading -- Comprehensive time line. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Middle East History To 622. Print version: Van de Mieroop, Marc. History of the ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC Third edition. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2016 9781118718162 (DLC) 2015005041 https://archive.org/details/historyofancient0000vand_w8g2 Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28568566M Additional information and access via Open Library historyofancient0000vand_w8g2 ark:/13960/s21r4mgzz4f