Handbook to life in ancient Mesopotamia
Bertman, Stephen2002
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Bertman examines the succession of civilizations that flourished in ancient Mesopotamia from 3500 to 500 B.C.E.; Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. "Mesopotamia (from the Ancient Greek: αα: "[land] between rivers"; Arabic: بلاد الرافدين (bilād al-rāfidayn); Syriac: (Beth Nahrin): "land of rivers") is a name for the area of the TigrisEuphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, the northeastern section of Syria and to a lesser extent southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran. Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization in the West, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age, it was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.
Main title:
Handbook to life in ancient Mesopotamia / by Stephen Bertman
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Facts on File, 2002
Collation:
404 pages : Mode of access: World Wide Web
Series title:
Audience:
Secondary
Contents:
Acknowledgements - Introduction - List of maps - List of illustrations - Geography of Mesopotamia - Archaeology and History - Government and Society - Religion and Myth - Language, Writing, and Literature - Architecture and Engineering - Sculpture and Other Arts - Economy - Transportation and Trade - Military Affairs - Everyday Life - Mesopotamia and Sacred Scripture - The Legacy of Mesopotamia - List of Museums with Major Mesopotamian Collections
ISBN:
0816043469 (ebook)
Dewey class:
935 HAN
Local class:
935
Language:
English
BRN:
50889
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | 935 HAN | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |