Early antiquity

by Dʹiakonov, Igorʹ Mikhaĭlovich Kirjanov, Alexander Kohl, Philip L.

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The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I.M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East, Central Asia, India, and China. Diakonoff and his colleagues, nearly all working within the general Marxist historiographic tradition, offer a comprehensive, accessible synthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings of agriculture through the advent of the Iron Age and the Greek colonization in the Mediterranean…

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Full title :Early antiquity / I.M. Diakonoff, volume editor ; Philip L. Kohl, project editor ; translated by Alexander Kirjanov ; foreword by Philip L. Kohl.

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Publication Date:©1991

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Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago [Illinois]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1991

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"Translation of: Istorii︠a︡ drevnego mira. 1. Ranni︠a︡i︠a︡ drevnost'"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

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Description:1 online resource (486 pages) : : illustrations, maps

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ISBN:9780226144672, 0226144674
oclc:ocn889307844
LC Classification:D57
Dewey Decimal:930

1. General Outline of the First Period of the History of the Ancient World and the Problem of the Ways of Development; 2. The City-States of Sumer; 3. Early Despotisms in Mesopotamia; 4. The Old Babylonian Period of Mesopotamian History; 5. Sumerian Culture; 6. The Predynastic Period and the Early and the Old Kingdoms in Egypt; 7. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Hyksos Invasion; 8. The New Kingdom of Egypt; 9. The Culture of Ancient Egypt; 10. The First States in India and the Pre-Urban Cultures of Central Asia and Iran; 11. Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe.

12. Mesopotamia in the Sixteenth to Eleventh Centuries B.C.13. The Hittite Kingdom; 14. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the Third and Second Millennia B.C.; 15. The World of Crete and Mycenae; 16. Greece of the Eleventh to Ninth Centuries B.C. in the Homeric Epics; 17. Phoenician and Greek Colonization; 18. India, Central Asia, and Iran in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C.; 19. The First States in China; 20. China in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C.; Maps; Index.