Book contents
- The Imperialisation of Assyria
- The Imperialisation of Assyria
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Chronology
- Introduction
- One A Fragmented World
- Two A City at the Fringe?
- Three The Rise of Assyria
- Four A Patchwork Empire
- Five Practising Empire
- Six Rulers of All the World
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
One - A Fragmented World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2020
Book contents
- The Imperialisation of Assyria
- The Imperialisation of Assyria
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Chronology
- Introduction
- One A Fragmented World
- Two A City at the Fringe?
- Three The Rise of Assyria
- Four A Patchwork Empire
- Five Practising Empire
- Six Rulers of All the World
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Ancient Near East gave rise to some of the earliest empires in world history. The largest states of the world were located in Mesopotamia and Egypt more than a millennium before a state of similar size emerged in China, and only in the second half of the first millennium BCE do comparably large political entities emerge in other regions such as India and the Mediterranean.
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- The Imperialisation of AssyriaAn Archaeological Approach, pp. 5 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020