| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Landscape, climate, population -- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE) -- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE) -- City-states and the way toward the central state (ca. 3200-2350 BCE) -- The first central states (Ca. 2350-1595 BCE) -- Babylonia as part of the near eastern community of states (1595-1200 BCE) -- The empires of the Assyrians and the Babylonians (1200-539 BCE) -- The Achaemenid Empire (539-331 BCE) -- Alexander and the Seleucids in Babylonia (331-141 BCE) -- The empires of the Parthians and the Sasanians (141 BCE to 642 CE) -- The Islamic Conquest (622-1258) -- Iraq as part of the Ottoman Empire (1258-1918) -- Iraq under the monarchy (1921-195 8) -- The Republic of Iraq (1958-2008) |
| Summary |
The recent reopening of Iraq's National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country's dual image as both the cradle of civilization and a contemporary geopolitical battleground. A sweeping account of the rich history that has played out between these chronological poles, From Mesopotamia to Iraq looks back through 10,000 years of the region's deeply significant yet increasingly overshadowed past. Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine begin by explaining how ancient Mesopotamian inventions--including urban society, a system of writing, and mathematical texts that anticipated Pythagor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
History, Ancient
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HISTORY -- General.
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Iraq -- History -- To 634.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067942
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Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067938
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Middle East. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501
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Middle East https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008877 |
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Iraq -- history -- To 634 |
| Subject |
Middle East
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Iraq
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Mesopotamien -- historia -- forntiden.
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Irak -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heine, Peter.
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| ISBN |
9780226586656 |
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0226586650 |
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9780226586632 |
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9780226586649 |
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0226586634 |
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0226586642 |
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