Contributor
Bryce, Trevor, 1940- author.
Imprint:New York ; London : Routledge, 2016.
Description1 atlas (xvii, 318 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Note:Relief shown by shading.
Note:The geography and geology of the ancient Near East -- Foragers and farmers: early agricultural communities -- The prehistory of the Near East: key sites -- The homelands of the major Near Eastern kingdoms -- Writing systems -- A sample of sites where important inscriptions have been found -- Trade and mineral resources -- The Sumerians -- Uruk (Warka, biblical Erech) -- Early dynastic and old kingdom Egypt -- The Akkadian empire -- Ur and the Ur III empire -- The early and middle Bronze Age kingdoms of western Iran -- The Amorites -- The Isin and Larsa dynasties -- The old Assyrian kingdom -- The Assyrian merchant colonies -- The Diyala region -- The Habur (Khabur) river region -- The old Babylonian kingdom -- Mari -- The cities and kingdoms of Syria in the middle and late Bronze Ages -- The major late Bronze Age kingdoms -- The Hittites -- Arzawa and the Luwians -- The Hurrians and Mitanni (Mittani) -- The adventures of Idrimi -- The middle Assyrian empire -- Kassite Babylonia -- Middle and new kingdom Egypt -- The Canaanites -- The Syro-Palestinian states attested in the Amarna letters -- Hittites and Egyptians in conflict -- Troy -- Ahhiyawa -- Bronze Age Cyprus -- The sea peoples -- The middle Elamite and Neo-Elamite periods -- The age of iron -- The Neo-Hittite kingdoms -- Tabal, Hilakku and Que (Adanawa/Hiyawa) -- The Neo-Assyrian empire -- The Phoenicians -- The Iron Age countries and kingdoms of Transjordan -- The Philistines -- 1st millennium BC Anatolia -- Phrygia and Lydia -- Urartu -- The Cimmerians -- Egypt in the Third Intermediate and Saite periods (1069-525 BC) -- Aeolians, Ionians, Dorians -- Two major Bronze Age-classical sites of western Anatolia -- The countries of southern Asia Minor in the Graeco-Roman period -- Lycia -- The ten kingdoms of 1st millennium BC Cyprus -- The Medes -- The Neo-Babylonian empire -- The Arabs -- Armenia -- The Persian (Achaemenid) empire -- The Persian invasions of the western Greek world -- Alexander the
Note:Great -- The Hellenistic age -- The Seleucid empire -- The Attalid empire -- Bactria -- The Maccabean rebellion -- Roman rule in the near East I: from the battle of Magnesia to the settlements of Pompey -- Roman rule in the Near East II: from Pompey to Augustus -- Herod the Great -- Parthia -- The Nabataeans -- Roman rule in the Near East III: from Augustus to Trajan -- The Sasanians -- Zenobia -- Roman rule in the Near East IV: from Diocletian to the Islamic invasions.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index.
