Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam

Eric H. Cline · Mark W. Graham

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Classical Antiquity Studies Ancient Near East History Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

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Introduction: what is an (ancient) empire? 1. Prelude to the Age of Ancient Empires 2. The rise of the Age of Ancient Empires 3. Dealing with empires: varieties of responses 4. Beyond the Near East: the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid Persian empires 5. The crucible of history: east meets west 6. Democracy and empire between Athens and Alexander 7. 'Spear-won' empires: the Hellenistic synthesis 8. The western Mediterranean and the rise of Rome 9. Imperium sine fine: Roman imperialism and the end of the old order 10. The new political order: the foundations of the principate 11. Ruling and resisting the Roman Empire 12. Imperial crisis and recovery 13. Universal empires and their peripheries in Late Antiquity 14. The formation of the Islamic world empire.

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