Early antiquity /I.M. Diakonoff, volume editor ; Philip L. Kohl, project editor ; translated by Alexander Kirjanov.

Early antiquity /I.M. Diakonoff, volume editor ; Philip L. Kohl, project editor ; translated by Alexander Kirjanov. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)1991. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 461 pages) : maps.

Translation of: Istorii︠a︡ drevnego mira. 1. Ranni︠a︡i︠a︡ drevnostʹ.

Includes bibliographies and index.

General outline of the first period of the history of the ancient world and the problem of the ways of development ; The city states of Sumer ; Early despotisms in Mesopotamia / The old Babylonian period of Mesopotamian history / Sumerian culture / The predynastic period and the early and the old kingdoms in Egypt ; The Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Hyksos invasion ; The New Kingdom of Egypt / The culture of ancient Egypt / The first states in India and the pre-urban cultures of Central Asia and Iran / Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe / Mesopotamia in the sixteenth to eleventh centuries B.C. / The Hittite kingdom / I.M. Diakonoff -- N.V. Kozyreva -- V.K. Afanasieva -- I.V. Vinodradov -- I.A. Lapis -- G.F. Il'yin and I.M. Diakonoff -- N.B. Jankowska -- V.A. Jakobson -- G.G. Giorgadze. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the third and second millennia B.C. / The world of Crete and Mycenae ; Greece of the eleventh to ninth centuries B.C. in the Homeric epics / Phoenician and Greek colonization / India, Central Asia, and Iran in the first half of the first millennium B.C. / The first states in China ; China in the first half of the first millennium B.C. / I.M. Diakonoff -- Yu V. Andreyev -- Yu. B. Tsirkin -- G.F. Il'yin and I.M. Diakonoff -- T.V. Stepugina.



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