The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume I
Part 2A, Early History of the Middle East (PAPER).
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The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume I
Part 2A
Edwards, I. E. S.; Gadd,
C. J.; Hammond, N. G. L.
ISBN 10: 0521298229 / ISBN 13: 9780521298223
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1980
Title: The Cambridge Ancient History:
Volume I Part...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: PAPER
Synopsis:
Part II of volume I
deals with the history of the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt,
a long period of political unification and stability enabled the kings of the
Old Kingdom to develop and exploit natural resources, to mobilize both the
manpower and the technical skill to build the pyramids, and to encourage
sculptors in the production of works of superlative quality. After a period of
anarchy and civil war at the end of the Sixth Dynasty the local rulers of
Thebes established the so-called Middle Kingdom, restoring an age of political
calm in which the arts could again flourish. In Western Asia, Babylonia was the
main centre and source of civilisation, and her moral, though not always her
military, hegemony was recognized and accepted by the surrounding countries of
Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Assyria and Elam. The history of the region is
traced from the late Uruk and Jamdat Nasr periods up to the rise of Hammurabi,
the most significant developments being the invention of writing in the Uruk
period, the emergence of the Semites as a political factor under Sargon, and
the success of the centralized bureaucracy under the Third Dynasty of Ur.
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