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000435267 1001_ $$aKriwaczek, Paul.
000435267 24510 $$aBabylon :$$bMesopotamia and the birth of civilization /$$cPaul Kriwaczek.
000435267 250__ $$a1st U.S. ed.
000435267 260__ $$aNew York :$$bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,$$c2012.
000435267 300__ $$aviii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm.
000435267 500__ $$aFirst published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.
000435267 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000435267 5050_ $$aLessons from the Past : an Introduction -- Kingship Descends from Heaven : The Urban Revolution Before 4000 BCE -- The City of Gilgamesh : Temple Rule between c. 4000 and 3000 BCE -- The Flood : a Caesura in History -- Big Men and Kings : The City-States, c. 3000 to 2300 BCE -- Rulers of the Four Quarters : The Bronze Heroic Age, c. 2300 to 2200 BCE -- Sumer Resurgent : The Dirigiste State, c. 2100 to 2000 BCE -- Old Babylon : The Culmination, c. 1900 to 1600 BCE -- Empire of Ashur : Colossus of the First Millennium, c. 1800 BCE to 700 BCE -- Passing the Baton : an End and a Beginning after 700 BCE.
000435267 520__ $$aHistorian Kriwaczek (Yiddish Civilization) brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, with its tales of the Great Flood and the epics of semidivine heroes such as Gilgamesh.
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000435267 651_0 $$aIraq$$xPolitics and government.
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