Ancient empires before Alexander
Thirty-six 30-minute lectures at the college level. Offers a careful analysis of the cultural, political, and military history of the great early empires, placing the later Greek and Roman empires in their proper historical context.
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- Full title :Ancient empires before Alexander / Robert L. Dise, Jr.
Summary
Thirty-six 30-minute lectures at the college level. Offers a careful analysis of the cultural, political, and military history of the great early empires, placing the later Greek and Roman empires in their proper historical context.
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- Publication Date:2009
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The Teaching Company
- Place of Publication:Chantilly, VA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009
Notes
Two 30-minute lectures on each disc.
Teaching Company: course number 3150.
Compact discs and book.
In three containers (19 cm.).
The Physical Object
- Description:18 audio discs (approximately 18 hr.) : : digital ; : 4 3/4 in. +
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781598035568, 1598035568, 9781598035582, 1598035584
- oclc:ocn753864000
- Dewey Decimal:930
Table of Contents
Part 1. Lecture 1. A meditation on empire -- Lecture 2. Lands, seas, and sources -- Lecture 3. Sargon and the dawn of empire -- Lecture 4. The Third Dynasty of Ur -- Lecture 5. The empire of Hammurabi -- Lecture 6. Mitanni and the Kassites -- Lecture 7. The rise of Hatti -- Lecture 8. The government of Hatti -- Lecture 9. Hatti at war -- Lecture 10. The climax and collapse of Hatti -- Lecture 11. The rise of the Egyptian empire -- Lecture 12. The imperial army and administration.
Part 2. Lecture 13. The end of the Egyptian empire -- Lecture 14. The Minoan thalassocracy -- Lecture 15. Mycenae and the dawn of Greece -- Lecture 16. The collapse of the Mycenaean world -- Lecture 17. The birth of Israel -- Lecture 18. The empire of David and Solomon -- Lecture 19. The dawn of Assyria -- Lecture 20. The rise of the neo-Assyrian empire -- Lecture 21. The government of Assyria -- Lecture 22. Assyria at war -- Lecture 23. The climax and collapse of Assyria -- Lecture 24. The Neo-Babylonian empire.
Part 3. Lecture 25. The rise of the Persian empire -- Lecture 26. The outbreak of the Greek wars -- Lecture 27. Xerxes and the invasion of Greece -- Lecture 28. From Plataea to the peace of Cal…
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