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The Cambridge Ancient History

By: E. Sollberger (Editor), N. G. L. Hammond (Editor), John Boardman (Editor), I. E. S. Edwards (Editor)

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Hardcover | 16 January 1992 | Edition Number 2

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962 Pages

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17.0 x 23.9 x 6.0

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Volume III Part II carries on the history of the Near East from the close of Volume III Part I and covers roughly the same chronological period as Volume III Part III. During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire which was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal strife. Assyrian might was reflected in the imposing palaces, libraries and sculptures of the Assyrian kings. Babylonian culture was outstanding in literature, mathematics and astronomy, and the great buildings of Nebuchadnezzar II surpassed even those of the Assyrian kings. Israel and Judah suffered at the hands of both imperial powers, Jerusalem being destroyed and part of the population deported to Babylon; and Egypt was weakened by an Assyrian invasion. The Phoenicians found a new outlet in colonising and founded Carthage. A number of small, vigorous kingdoms developed in Asia Minor, while from the north and north east the Scythian nomadic tribes pressed down upon Turkey and the Danube valley, but found their match in the Thracian tribes which held south-eastern Europe and parts of western Turkey. The burials of the chieftains of both peoples were remarkable for the great wealth of offerings.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500

Assyria and Babylonia
Babylonia in the shadow of Assyria (747G++626 BC)
Assyria: Tiglath-Pileser III to Sargon II (744G++705 BC)
Assyria: Sennacherib and Esarhaddon (704G++669 BC)
Assyria (668G++635 BC): the reign of Ashurbanipal
The fall of Assyria (635G++609 BC)
Assyrian civilisation
Babylonia (605G++539 BC)
Neo-Babylonian society and economy
Babylonian mathematics, astrology and astronomy
First-millennium Babylonian literature
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea
Israel and Judah from the coming of Assyrian domination until the fall of Samaria, and the struggle for independence in Judah (c.750G++700 BC)
Judah until the fall of Jerusalem (c.700G++586 BC)
The Babylonian exile and the restoration of the Jews in Palestine (586G++c.500 BC)
Phoenicia and Phoenician colonisation
The Scythians
Thrace before the Persian entry into Europe
The native kingdoms of Anatolia
Anatolian languages
Egypt: the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth dynasties
Chronological tables
Bibliography
Index
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