Contributor
D'iakonov, I. M. (Igor' Mikhailovich)
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Descriptionxxiii, 461 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Translation of: Istoriia drevnego mira. 1. Ranniaia drevnost'.
Note:General outline of the first period of the history of the ancient world and the problem of the ways of development / I.M. Diankonoff -- The city-states of Sumer / I.M. Diakonoff -- Early despotisms in Mesopotamia / I.M. Diakonoff -- The old Babylonian period of Mesopotamian history / N.V. Kozyreva -- Sumerian culture / V.K. Afanasieva -- The predynastic period and the early and the old kingdoms in Egypt / I.V. Vinogradov -- The middle kingdom of Egypt and the Hykos invasion / I.V. Vinogradov -- The new kingdom of Egypt / I.V. Vinogradov -- The culture of ancient Egypt / I.A. Lapis -- The first states in India and the pre-urban cultures of Central Asia and Iran / G.F. Il’yin, I.M. Diakonoff -- Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe / n.B. Jankowska -- Mesopotamia in the 16th to 11th centuries B.C. / V.A. Jakobson -- The Hittite kingdom / G.G. Giorgadze -- Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. / I.M. Diakonoff -- The world of Crete and Mycenae / Yu. V. Andreyev -- Greece of the 11th to 9th centuries B.C. in the Homeric epics / Yu. V. Andreyev -- Phoenician and Greek colonization / Yu. B. Tsirkin -- India, Central Asia, and Iran inthe first half of the first millenium B.C. / G.F. Il’yin, I.M. Diakonoff - The first states in China / T.V. Stepugina -- China in the first half of the first millennium B.C. / T.V. Stepugina.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
