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2. The City-States of Sumer
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I. M. Diakonoff
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. General Outline of the First Period of the History of the Ancient World and the Problem of the Ways of Development 27
- 2. The City-States of Sumer 67
- 3. Early Despotisms in Mesopotamia 84
- 4. The Old Babylonian Period of Mesopotamian History 98
- 5. Sumerian Culture 124
- 6. The Predynastic Period and the Early and the Old Kingdoms in Egypt 137
- 7. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Hyksos Invasion 158
- 8. The New Kingdom of Egypt 172
- 9. The Culture of Ancient Egypt 193
- 10. The First States in India and the Pre-Urban Cultures of Central Asia and Iran 214
- 11. Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe 228
- 12. Mesopotamia in the Sixteenth to Eleventh Centuries B. C. 261
- 13. The Hittite Kingdom 266
- 14. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the Third and Second Millennia B.C. 286
- 15. The World of Crete and Mycenae 309
- 16. Greece of the Eleventh to Ninth Centuries B.C. in the Homeric Epics 328
- 17. Phoenician and Greek Colonization 347
- 18. India, Central Asia, and Iran in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C. 366
- 19. The First States in China 387
- 20. China in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C. 420
- Maps 433
- Index 441
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. General Outline of the First Period of the History of the Ancient World and the Problem of the Ways of Development 27
- 2. The City-States of Sumer 67
- 3. Early Despotisms in Mesopotamia 84
- 4. The Old Babylonian Period of Mesopotamian History 98
- 5. Sumerian Culture 124
- 6. The Predynastic Period and the Early and the Old Kingdoms in Egypt 137
- 7. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Hyksos Invasion 158
- 8. The New Kingdom of Egypt 172
- 9. The Culture of Ancient Egypt 193
- 10. The First States in India and the Pre-Urban Cultures of Central Asia and Iran 214
- 11. Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe 228
- 12. Mesopotamia in the Sixteenth to Eleventh Centuries B. C. 261
- 13. The Hittite Kingdom 266
- 14. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the Third and Second Millennia B.C. 286
- 15. The World of Crete and Mycenae 309
- 16. Greece of the Eleventh to Ninth Centuries B.C. in the Homeric Epics 328
- 17. Phoenician and Greek Colonization 347
- 18. India, Central Asia, and Iran in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C. 366
- 19. The First States in China 387
- 20. China in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C. 420
- Maps 433
- Index 441