Civilizations of Ancient Iraq (eBook)

Benjamin R. Foster, Karen Polinger Foster (Autoren)

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2021
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3287-3 (ISBN)

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In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia--from the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians, Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. Ancient Iraq was home to remarkable achievements. One of the birthplaces of civilization, it saw the world's earliest cities and empires, writing and literature, science and mathematics, monumental art, and innumerable other innovations. Civilizations of Ancient Iraq gives special attention to these milestones, as well as to political, social, and economic history. And because archaeology is the source of almost everything we know about ancient Iraq, the book includes an epilogue on the discovery and fate of its antiquities. Compelling and timely, Civilizations of Ancient Iraq is an essential guide to understanding Mesopotamia's central role in the development of human culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 21 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Afghanistan • Agriculture • Akkad (city) • Akkadian empire • Akkadian language • Akkadian literature • Alexander the Great • Alluvial plain • Amarna letters • Amorite • Amorites • Amu Darya River • Anatolia • Annunitum • arable land • arabs • Arameans • arbela • archaeology • Archimedes screw • Ashurbanipal • Assur • Assurbanipal • Assyria • Assyriology • Astronomy • Babylon • Babylonia • Babylonian Chronicles • Babylon, site • Balikh River • Behistun Inscription • Berlin Museum • bevel-rimmed bowls • Borsippa • British Museum • caravanserais • Carchemish • Chaldaean Catholics • Christianity • Chronicles • city-state • Code of Hammurabi • Courtier • Ctesiphon • cultural heritage • cylinder seal • cyrus the great • Damascius • Date Palm • decipherment • domestication • Dur-Sharrukin • Eannatum • Education • Ekur • Elam • Emblem • Enkidu • Enlil • Epic of Gilgamesh • Epigraphy • Erlenmeyer Collection • Esarhaddon • faience • Families • fertility • Flood myth • Frankincense • Furniture • Gaugamela • Gnosticism • Great King • Greek language • Gudea • hammurabi • Hassuna ware • Hellenistic period • Hinterland • Hittites • Horoscopes • Hurrians • Ibbi-Sin • Iconography • Inanna • Iranian Plateau • Iraq • Iraq Museum • jeremiah • Jesus • Jews • Julius Caesar • Kassites • Khabur (Tigris) • Kudur-nahhunte • kudurrus • Lachish • lagash • larsa • Literacy • Literature • Looting • Manishtusu • Marduk • Mathematics • Mesopotamia • Minstrels • Mitanni • Nabonidus • Nabopolassar • Naram-Sin • narrative • Nebuchadnezzar II • Nimrud • Nineveh • Nippur • Parthian Empire • Persepolis • Persian Empire • Pottery • Ruler • Samarra • Sanskrit • Sargon • sasanian empire • Seleucid Empire • Sennacherib • Shamash • Shuruppak • Sippar • Stele of the Vultures • Sumer • Sumerian King List • Sumerian language • Sumerian literature • The Persians • Third Dynasty of Ur • Ur-Nammu • Uruk • warfare • Wealth • Western Asia • World War II • Writing • year • Zimri-Lim
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3287-X / 140083287X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3287-3 / 9781400832873