Chapters in this book

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