The Pax Assyriaca : the historical evolution of civilisations and the archaeology of empires /: the historical evolution of civilisations and the archaeology of empires. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Benjamin Toro.
• Authors: Toro, Benjamín
• Contents: Introduction ; The concept of civilisation ; The historical evolution of civilisations ; First aim of this study: the Central Civilisation and the Mesopotamian / Egyptian merger ; Second aim of this study: the methodological approach to the archaeological knowledge of the Ancient Near East ; Third aim of this study: an approach to World Systems Theory and archaeology ; Chapter 1: The Historical Evolution of the Ancient Near East and the Rise of the Assyrian Phenomenon ; The Ancient Near East as geopolitical entity ; The Land of Mesopotamia as the Cradle of Civilisation ; The Mesopotamian symbiosis ; The Assyrian phenomenon ; The Ancient Near East and the 'catastrophe' at the end of the Bronze Age ; Chapter 2: The Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Pax Assyriaca ; The archaeology of empires: theories, approaches and problems ; The meaning of 'empire' and its principal dimensions ; The Neo-Assyrian expansion and the peripheral polities under its domination ; The Neo-Assyrian hierarchy of its imperial core ; The Neo-Assyrian order and its global context ; Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt and the Pax Assyriaca ; General introduction to the Egyptian civilisation ; Ancient Egypt, the Neo-Assyrian expansion and its peripheral polities of domination ; Ancient Egypt and the Neo-Assyrian imperial core ; Ancient Egypt and the Neo-Assyrian order in its global context ; Chapter 4: The Collapse of the Pax Assyriaca ; The collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ; Ancient Egypt and the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ; Conclusion ; Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 935.03; Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt; Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology; HISTORY -- Middle East -- General; Assyria -- Civilization; Iraq -- History -- To 634; Middle East -- History -- To 622
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789690637
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