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| List of Tables, Figures, Maps, and Documents? | |
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| Preface? | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introductio? | |
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| Studying the Ancient Near Eas? | |
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| What Is the "Near East"? | |
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| The Nature of Historical Stud? | |
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| Antiquity's "Clues"? | |
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| Creating a Chronology for the Ancient Near Eas? | |
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| A Note on Chronological Terminology: b.c.e./c.e. vs. b.c./a.d. | |
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| Absolute and Relative Chronolog? | |
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| Sources for Ancient Near Eastern Chronology | |
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| Prelude: Near Eastern Prehistor? | |
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| The Origins of Sedentary Life (c. 10,500-8300 b.c.e | |
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| Early Agricultural Communities in Southwest Asia (c. 8300-6000 b.c.e | |
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| The Development of Complex Societies in Southwest Asia (c. 6000-3700 b.c.e | |
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| Early Cultures of the Nile Valley (c. 8000-3500 b.c.e | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The Emergence of Social Stratification and Male Dominance | |
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| The Dawn of Civilization in Western Asi? | |
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| The Emergence of Mesopotamian Civilization (c. 3700-3000 b.c.e | |
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| The Urban Revolution | |
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| The Development of Cuneiform Writing | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The Origin of the Sumerian? | |
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| Other People of Mesopotamia The Emergence of Elam | |
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| The Mesopotamian Early Dynastic Period (c. 3000-2330 b.c.e | |
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| An Era of Independent City States | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The "Royal Tombs" of Ur Mesopotamian Culture During the Early Dynastic Er? | |
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| Religion and World View | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The Sacred Marriage Ceremony | |
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| The Development of Kingship | |
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| Economy and Society | |
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| Education, Literature, and the Arts | |
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| Science, Technology, and Warfare | |
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| Urbanization in Other Areas of Western Asia (c. 3300-2300 b.c.e | |
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| Early Bronze Age Syria and Palestine | |
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| Early Bronze Age Anatolia and Iran | |
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| The First Mesopotamian Empire? | |
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| The Akkadian Empire (c. 2334-2193 b.c.e.) | |
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| 65 Sargon of Akkad (c. 2334-2279 b.c.e) Sargon's Successor? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: Divine Kingshi? | |
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| Administration of the Empir? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: Reasons for Empire's Collapse | |
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| The Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112-2004 b.c.e | |
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| Ur's Rise to Powe? | |
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| Shulgi's Reform? | |
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| The Fall of U? | |
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| Persian Gulf and Central Asian Civilization? | |
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| Dilmun, Magan, and Meluhh? | |
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| The Oxus Civilization | |
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| The Old Babylonian Period and Its Aftermath | |
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| The "Interregnum" After the Fall of Ur | |
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| (2000-1800 B.C.E.) The Assyrian Merchant Colony at Kanesh The Ascendancy of Isin and Larsa Hammurabi and His Dynasty (c. 1800-1595 B.C.E.) Shamshi-Adad's Empire Hammurabi and His Successor? | |
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| Old Babylonian Cultural Development? | |
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| Literature Debating the Evidence: The "Code" of Hammurabi Babylonian Society in the "Code" The Hittite Old Kingdom Debating the Evidence: Indo-European Origins The Emergence of a Hittite Stat? | |
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| The Emergence of New People? | |
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| The Hurrians and the Kingdom of Mitanni? | |
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| Kassite Rule in Babylonia | |
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| Egypt To The End Of The Old Kingdom | |
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| The Late Predynastic Era (c. 3500-3000 b.c.e? | |
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| The Geography of Egypt and Nubi? | |
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| The People of the Nile Valle? | |
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| Prelude to Civilization: The Naqada II Period? | |
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| The Formation of the Egyptian State (c. 3050-2686 b.c.e | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The Process of Unificatio? | |
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| The Development of Egyptian Writin? | |
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| The Early Dynastic Period (Dynasties 1 and 2)? | |
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| Major Elements of Egyptian Cultur? | |
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| Ma'a? | |
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| Divine Kingshi? | |
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| Burial and the Afterlif? | |
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| Religion and Ritua? | |
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| The Old Kingdom (Dynasties 3-6, c. 2686-2180 b.c.e | |
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| Djoser and the First Pyrami? | |
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| The Zenith of Royal Power: The Fourth Dynasty (c. 2613-2498 b.c.e | |
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| Debating the Evidence: Dating the Great Sphinx The Latter Part of the Old Kingdom: Dynasties 5 and 6 (c. 2498-2180 b.c.e | |
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| Early Egyptian Society and Culture | |
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| The Rise And Fall Of The Egyptian Middle Kingdo? | |
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| The First Intermediate Period: Dynasties 7-11a (c. 2180-2040 b.c.e | |
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| Where is Ma`at? | |
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| 139 The Intermediate Period's Effect? | |
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| The Middle Kingdom: Dynasties 11b-13a (c. 2040-1720 b.c.e | |
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| The Establishment of the Middle Kingdo? | |
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| The Impressive Twelfth Dynast? | |
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| Cultural Developments During the Middle Kingdo? | |
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| The Second Intermediate Period: Dynasties 13b-17 (c. 1720-1540 b.c.e | |
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| The Onset of the Second Intermediate Perio? | |
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| The Kingdom of Kush (Upper Nubia? | |
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| Hyksos Rule and the Dynasty at Thebes: Dynasties 15 and 17 (c. 1650-1540 b.c.e | |
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| Debating the Evidence: Hyksos Relations with the Levan? | |
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| Egyptian and Levantine Contacts with the Minoan Culture of Crete | |
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| Egypt'S Powerful Eighteenth Dynasty | |
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| The Beginning of the Egyptian New Kingdom (c. 1550-1479 b.c.e.) | |
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| 162 The Early Eighteenth Dynast? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The "Royal Heiress" Theor? | |
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| Hatshepsut and Thutmose III (c. 1479-1425 b.c.e | |
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| Hatshepsut Becomes Kin? | |
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| The Sole Rule of Thutmose III | |
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| The Egyptian Empire at Its Height (c. 1425-1350 b.c.e | |
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| The Reigns of Amenhotep II and Thutmose IV | |
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| Amenhotep III, "The Magnificent"? | |
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| The New Egyptian Arm? | |
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| Late Bronze Age Canaan (Palestine and Coastal Syria? | |
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| Relations with the Aegean Kingdom? | |
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| Akhenaton and the Amarna Period (c. 1350-1334 b.c.e | |
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| Controversies of the Amarna Ag? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: Did Akhenaton Have a Co-Regency With His Father? | |
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| The Beginning of Amenhotep IV's Reig? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: Akhenaton's Religio? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The Revolution's Denouemen? | |
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| The End of the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1334-1293 b.c.e | |
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| Tutankhamun and the Restoration of Amu? | |
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| The Reigns of Ay and Horemheb, (c. 1325-1293 b.c.e.) | |
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| The End of the Bronze Ag? | |
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| The Zenith of Hittite Power (c. 1344-1180 b.c.e | |
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| Revival and Extension of the Hittite Empir? | |
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| Hatti's Showdown With Egyp? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The Historicity of the Trojan Wa? | |
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| Hittite Cultur? | |
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| Economy, Society, and Governmen? | |
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| Religion | |
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| Languages and Literatur? | |
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| The Twilight of the Egyptian Empire (c.1293-1150 b.c.e | |
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| The Empire's Final Flash of Greatnes? | |
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| Invasions of the Sea People? | |
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| The Collapse of Bronze Age Societies in the Eastern Mediterranea? | |
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| The Mycenaean Kingdom? | |
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| The Demise of the Hittite Empir? | |
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| The End of Egyptian Powe? | |
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| The Decline of Assyria and Babyloni? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: What Caused the Collapse? | |
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| Recovery And Transformation (c. 1100-745 b.C.E | |
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| Mesopotamia and Egyp? | |
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| Assyria and Babyloni? | |
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| The Third Intermediate Period in Egyp? | |
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| Anatolia | |
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| The Kingdom of Urart? | |
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| The Phrygian and Neo-Hittite Kingdom? | |
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| Syria | |
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| The Aramaean? | |
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| The Phoenician? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: Infant Sacrifice Early Israe? | |
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| Debating the Evidence: The Emergence of Israe? | |
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| The Formation of the Israelite State (The United Monarchy? | |
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| The Kingdoms of Israel and Juda? | |
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| Other Small States of the Southern Levant? | |
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| The Philistine? | |
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| Ammon, Moab, and Edo? | |
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| Small Kingdoms and Confederations i | |