ISBN: 9781933834573

Description: pages cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Timelines
• Early peoples
• Sites : Shanidar
• The first farmers
• Builders and traders
• First civilization
• Sites : Tell Madhhur
• Birth of the city
• Sites : Uruk
• States in conflict
• Sites : Nippur, Ebla
• Sites : Ur
• Kings of Agade
• Rival kingdoms
• Law and society
• Mittani and the Assyrians
• The Kassites
• New powers
• Israel and Judah
• Sites : Kalhu
• Assyria triumphant
• Sites : Ashur, Nineveh
• Babylonian revival
• Sites : Babylon
• The Persian Empire
• Darius' empire
• Sites : Susa
• The final years.

LCCN: 2009016804

Control Number: 706140

Series:

• Facts at your fingertips
• Facts at your fingertips.

Subjects: Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.

Other Authors: Dalal, Anita.