Ancient empires before Alexander

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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.

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Publication Date:2009

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Teaching Company
Place of Publication:Chantilly, VA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009

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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:1 online resource (18 audio discs (approximately 18 hr.) :

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1598035568, 9781598035568
oclc:on1285476542
Dewey Decimal:930

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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Assyria -- History Audiobooks Audiobooks collection -- Nonfiction Babylonia -- History Carthage (Extinct city) -- History Carthage (Ville ancienne) -- Histoire Egypt Egypt -- History -- New Kingdom, ca. 15… Égypte -- Histoire -- ca 1550-1070 av. … Hammurabi,, King of Babylonia History Hittites Hittites -- Histoire Hittites -- History Imperialism Imperialism -- History Impérialisme -- Histoire Iran Iran -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 651 Iran -- History -- To 640