UID:
almahu_9948022239702882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 1128 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9781139054270 (ebook)
Series Statement:
The Cambridge ancient history
Content:
Volume II, Part II deals with the history of the region from about 1380 to 1000 B.C., and includes accounts of Akhenaten and the Amarna 'revolution' in Egypt, the expansion and final decline of the Mycenaean civilization in Greece, the exodus and wanderings of the Israelites, and the Asstrian and Hittite empires.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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The struggle for the domination of Syria (1400-1300 B.C.) -- Assyria and Babylon c. 1370-1300 B.C. -- Egypt: the Amarna Period and the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty -- The Amarna Letters from Palestine -- Anatolia from Shuppiluliumash to the Egyptian War of Muwatallish ; Ugarit ; Troy VII -- The expansion of the Mycenaean civilization ; Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age -- Egypt: from the inception of the Nineteenth Dynasty to the death of Ramesses III -- The Hittites and Syria (1300-1200 B.C.) -- Assyrian military power 1300-1200 B.C. -- Palestine in the time of the Ninetenth Dynasty. The Exodus and wanderings ; Archaeological evidence -- The recession of Mycenaean civilizations -- The Sea Peoples -- Elam c. 1600-1200 B.C. -- Phrygia and the peoples of Anatolia in the Iron Age -- Assyria and Babylonia c. 1200-1000 B.C. -- Elam and Western Persia, c. 1200-1000 B.C. -- Syria, the Philistines, and Phoenicia -- The Hebrew Kingdom -- Egypt: from the death of Ramesses III to the end of the Twenty-First Dynasty -- The end of Mycenaean civilization and the Dark Age. The archaeological Background ; The literary tradition for the migrations -- The Western Mediterranean -- Greek settlement in the Eastern Aegean and Asia Minor -- The prehistory of the Greek Language ; The Homeric Poems as history -- The Religion and Mythology of the Greeks.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521086912
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521086912
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