From Mesopotamia to Iraq : a concise history /
The recent reopening of Iraq's National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country's dual image as both the cradle of civilization and a contemporary geopolitical battleground. A sweeping account of the rich history that has played out between these chronological poles,...
| Основен автор: | Nissen, Hans Jorg. |
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| Други автори: | Heine, Peter. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English German |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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From Mesopotamia to Iraq. |
Съдържание:
- Landscape, climate, population
- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE)
- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE)
- City-states and the way toward the central state (ca. 3200-2350 BCE)
- The first central states (Ca. 2350-1595 BCE)
- Babylonia as part of the near eastern community of states (1595-1200 BCE)
- The empires of the Assyrians and the Babylonians (1200-539 BCE)
- The Achaemenid Empire (539-331 BCE)
- Alexander and the Seleucids in Babylonia (331-141 BCE)
- The empires of the Parthians and the Sasanians (141 BCE to 642 CE)
- The Islamic Conquest (622-1258)
- Iraq as part of the Ottoman Empire (1258-1918)
- Iraq under the monarchy (1921-195 8)
- The Republic of Iraq (1958-2008).