The Ancient Near EastExamines the events leading up to and the political legacy of the bloodless English overthrow of its monarchy. |
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agriculture Akkad Akkadian Alexander Ancient Iraq Ancient Near East animals Archaeologist Georges Roux artifacts Ashurbanipal Ashurnasirpal Assyrian Empire Babylon Babylonian became becomes king began bricks buildings built Canaan Canaanites Carroll Quigley city-states civilization clay conquered crops culture cuneiform cylinder-seal Cyrus Darius developed early earth Egypt Elamites Enlil Erech Eridu Euphrates River Excavations farmers fertility Flood Georges Roux Gilgamesh goddess gods gold Hammurabi Hebrews Highland Historian Carroll Quigley Hittite inventions Ishtar Kassites kingdom Kish land Larsa laws Leonard Woolley lived lord Marduk Mediterranean Mesopotamia mountain Nabonidus nation Nebuchadrezzar Nebuchadrezzar II Nineveh palace period Persian Phoenician Quoted record reign religion religious royal ruled ruler Samuel Noah Kramer Sargon Sargon II scribes Semitic shows slaves society statue steles story Sumer Sumerian Syria tablets tell temple Third Dynasty Tigris tions tombs took tribes ture Ubaid Ur-Nammu Uruk walls wealth Yahweh ziggurat