The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 2, Part 1I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger Volumes I and II of The Cambridge Ancient History have had to be entirely rewritten as a result of the very considerable additions to knowledge which have accrued in the past forty-five years. For the same reason it has also been necessary to increase the size of the volumes and to divide each of them into two separately published parts. The individual chapters have already appeared as fascicles, but without maps, indexes and chronological tables which, for practical reasons, have been reserved for these volumes. Some additions and corrections have also been made in order to bring the text, as far as possible, up to date. Together the new volumes provide a history of Egypt and the Ancient Orient (including Greece and the Aegean region) down to 1000 BC in a form suitable for both specialist and student. Volume II, Part I, deals with the history of the region from about 1800 to 1380 BC. This was the era of Hammurabi in Western Asia, the Hyksos and warrior-kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt, and the Minoan and early Mycenaean civilizations in Crete and mainland Greece. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Mari | 8 |
Eshnunna Iamkhad Qatna and other states | 14 |
Hammurabis conquests in the North and | 28 |
Development of the Hurrian states | 36 |
CHAPTER II | 42 |
The Hyksos infiltration and the founding of | 54 |
CHAPTER III | 77 |
CHAPTER XI | 526 |
Dating evidence | 527 |
The sites | 530 |
History of Palestine in the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty in the light of the evidence from the sites | 555 |
THE ZENITH OF MINOAN CIVILIZATION | 557 |
CHAPTER XIII | 582 |
pictographic numerals Linear Script | 589 |
b THE LINEAR B TABLETS AS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | 609 |
CHAPTER IV | 117 |
MINOAN CIVILIZATION | 141 |
by H W CATLING | 165 |
CHAPTER V | 176 |
CHAPTER VI | 228 |
The dynasty of the Grand Regent rulers of Elam page | 256 |
CHAPTER VIII | 289 |
The Prince of Kush and the reoccupation of Nubia | 296 |
CHAPTER IX | 313 |
The power of Amun | 323 |
Amenophis IIIs display | 338 |
The Nubian gold trade | 346 |
The civil service page | 353 |
The army navy and police force | 363 |
The employment and sources of labour | 372 |
Taxation commerce and exchange | 381 |
Building and the state monopoly of stone | 391 |
Tomb development | 401 |
Art | 407 |
CHAPTER X | 417 |
The Kassites and their neighbours | 437 |
The Egyptian challenge | 444 |
The balance of power | 459 |
The Egyptians in Retenu | 467 |
The Amarna Age | 483 |
Warfare and society | 493 |
Commerce and industry | 506 |
Religion art and literature | 519 |
by FRANK H STUBBINGS | 627 |
Argolid | 649 |
CHAPTER XV | 659 |
TROY VI | 683 |
ON THE PERSIAN PLATEAU by ROBERT H DYSON JR Introduction page | 686 |
Ceramic patterns of the middle second millennium | 702 |
End of the Bronze Age cultures c 13501150 | 712 |
Abbreviations | 716 |
Chapter 1 | 720 |
Chapter II | 723 |
Chapter III | 730 |
a | 732 |
b | 738 |
c | 740 |
Chapter v | 742 |
Chapter vi | 749 |
Chapter VII | 754 |
Chapter VIII | 756 |
Chapter Ix | 760 |
Chapter x | 777 |
| 798 | |
Chapter XII | 799 |
a | 801 |
Chapter x111 b | 805 |
Chapter xv | 809 |
Chapter xvi | 813 |
Chronological Tables | 818 |
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