The Ancient East - Softcover

The earliest of these centres of power to develop foreign empire was also that destined, after many vicissitudes, to hold it latest, because it was the best endowed by nature to repair the waste which empire entails. This was the region which would be known later as Babylonia from the name of the city which in historic times dominated it, but, as we now know, was neither an early seat of power nor the parent of its distinctive local civilization. This honour, if due to any one city, should be credited to Ur, whose also was the first and the only truly "Babylonian" empire.

LIST OF MAPS PLATE PAOB 1. THE REGION OF THE ANCIENT EAST AND ITS MAIN DIVISIONS .... 19 2. ASIATIC EMPIRE OF EGYPT. TEMP. AMEN- HETEP III 33 3. HATTI EMPIRE AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. EARLY 13TH CENTURY B.C. .. 37 4. ASSYRIAN EMPIRE AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. EARLY YEARS OF ASHUR- BANIPAL 113 5. PERSIAN EMPIRE (WEST) AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. TEMP. DARIUS HYSTASPIS .175 6. HELLENISM IN ASIA. ABOUT 150 B.C. .
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