Author: Gary G. Miller
Publisher: Rivers Around the World
ISBN: 9780778774488
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An exploration of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that discusses their geologic histories and natural resources, and explores how they are used by humans and efforts to protect them.
The Tigris and Euphrates
Author: Gary G. Miller
Publisher: Rivers Around the World
ISBN: 9780778774488
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An exploration of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that discusses their geologic histories and natural resources, and explores how they are used by humans and efforts to protect them.
Publisher: Rivers Around the World
ISBN: 9780778774488
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An exploration of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that discusses their geologic histories and natural resources, and explores how they are used by humans and efforts to protect them.
Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates
Author: Lisa Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134261071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, this book explores the growth and success of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134261071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, this book explores the growth and success of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.
World History
Author: Eugene Berger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.
From the Banks of the Euphrates
Author: Micah Ross
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575061449
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Although Near Eastern languages and the history of the exact sciences are known for being obscure and deliberately arcane to general audiences, Alice Slotsky has paradoxically established her legacy by exposing these topics to a wider audience. As a visiting professor at Brown University, Slotsky has taught more students than any previous Assyriologist and successfully brought this discipline to a wider audience than previously imagined possible. This volume, with articles written by former students, as well as colleagues, pays tribute to her broad interests.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575061449
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Although Near Eastern languages and the history of the exact sciences are known for being obscure and deliberately arcane to general audiences, Alice Slotsky has paradoxically established her legacy by exposing these topics to a wider audience. As a visiting professor at Brown University, Slotsky has taught more students than any previous Assyriologist and successfully brought this discipline to a wider audience than previously imagined possible. This volume, with articles written by former students, as well as colleagues, pays tribute to her broad interests.
The Greatness that was Babylon
Author: H. W. F. Saggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Excavations in Mesopotamia have revealed a large amount of new information relevant to the study of Babylonian civilization. The roots of much of western civilization lie in Babylonia the ancient civilization of south Iraq. Alexander the Great recognized the importance of its heritage and planned to make Babylon his world capital. The splendours and supposed wickedness of Babylon lived on in a tradition transmitted through the Bible and classical writers. The author aims here to reconstruct all aspects of this lost culture, presenting the Babylonians as living people -- showing their eating and drinking habits, their worship, their relationships and lifestyle and so present an integrated picture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Excavations in Mesopotamia have revealed a large amount of new information relevant to the study of Babylonian civilization. The roots of much of western civilization lie in Babylonia the ancient civilization of south Iraq. Alexander the Great recognized the importance of its heritage and planned to make Babylon his world capital. The splendours and supposed wickedness of Babylon lived on in a tradition transmitted through the Bible and classical writers. The author aims here to reconstruct all aspects of this lost culture, presenting the Babylonians as living people -- showing their eating and drinking habits, their worship, their relationships and lifestyle and so present an integrated picture.
Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization
Author: Guillermo Algaze
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226013782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the “cradle of civilization,” owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BCE. In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of modern economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia. He argues that these natural conditions granted southern polities significant competitive advantages over their landlocked rivals elsewhere in Southwest Asia, most importantly the ability to easily transport commodities. In due course, this resulted in increased trade and economic activity and higher population densities in the south than were possible elsewhere. As southern polities grew in scale and complexity throughout the fourth millennium, revolutionary new forms of labor organization and record keeping were created, and it is these socially created innovations, Algaze argues, that ultimately account for why fully developed city-states emerged earlier in southern Mesopotamia than elsewhere in Southwest Asia or the world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226013782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the “cradle of civilization,” owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BCE. In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of modern economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia. He argues that these natural conditions granted southern polities significant competitive advantages over their landlocked rivals elsewhere in Southwest Asia, most importantly the ability to easily transport commodities. In due course, this resulted in increased trade and economic activity and higher population densities in the south than were possible elsewhere. As southern polities grew in scale and complexity throughout the fourth millennium, revolutionary new forms of labor organization and record keeping were created, and it is these socially created innovations, Algaze argues, that ultimately account for why fully developed city-states emerged earlier in southern Mesopotamia than elsewhere in Southwest Asia or the world.
Rome on the Euphrates
Author: Freya Stark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A distinguished historical work presenting eight centuries of Roman history in Asia Minor and the Middle East. -- Front cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A distinguished historical work presenting eight centuries of Roman history in Asia Minor and the Middle East. -- Front cover.
Euphrates River Valley Settlement
Author: Edgar Peltenberg
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178297511X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Pre-state ceremonial monuments, rich mortuary arrangements, forts, walled settlements and temples: all these occur in a narrow stretch of the Euphrates River valley prior to the rise of Carchemish, one of the major capital cities of the Ancient Near East. This well-illustrated book examines recently discovered evidence from the hinterlands of archaeologically inaccessible Carchemish in its regional context. Amongst the 18 contributors Tony Wilkinson characterizes the neighbouring regions of Carchemish, Guy Bunnens elaborates on a site hierarchy within the valley and Gioacchino Falsone appraises unpublished records from excavations at Carchemish itself. These material culture studies are important for those interested in the emergence of complex societies that do not conform to the Mesopotamian paradigm.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178297511X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Pre-state ceremonial monuments, rich mortuary arrangements, forts, walled settlements and temples: all these occur in a narrow stretch of the Euphrates River valley prior to the rise of Carchemish, one of the major capital cities of the Ancient Near East. This well-illustrated book examines recently discovered evidence from the hinterlands of archaeologically inaccessible Carchemish in its regional context. Amongst the 18 contributors Tony Wilkinson characterizes the neighbouring regions of Carchemish, Guy Bunnens elaborates on a site hierarchy within the valley and Gioacchino Falsone appraises unpublished records from excavations at Carchemish itself. These material culture studies are important for those interested in the emergence of complex societies that do not conform to the Mesopotamian paradigm.
The Euphrates
Author: John Batchelor
Publisher: Hodder Wayland
ISBN: 9780382065187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A description of this historic river as it wends from Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
Publisher: Hodder Wayland
ISBN: 9780382065187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A description of this historic river as it wends from Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
Mesopotamian Civilization
Author: Daniel T. Potts
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485930016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Likely to become a standard work for students of the ancient Near East, and for those interested in the high cultures of the region, this account is also a highly accessible repository of information valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, etc
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485930016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Likely to become a standard work for students of the ancient Near East, and for those interested in the high cultures of the region, this account is also a highly accessible repository of information valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, etc