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The First Great Powers - Babylon and Assyria (Hardcover)
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The First Great Powers - Babylon and Assyria (Hardcover)
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The rediscovery of Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views
on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved
that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not
constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with
the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that
humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society we
know today. The Sumerians inaugurated civilisation itself, but it
was the Babylonians and then the Assyrians who fulfilled its
potential. Their early experiments in state formation remain
fascinating to us today: just like our governments, for a thousand
years Babylon and Assyria grappled with the challenges of
organising central power, administering distant territories, and
engineering social harmony in empires and their cities. These
achievements form one of the momentous episodes in human history;
the Mesopotamian invention of writing revolutionised our minds and
increased our intellectual possibilities a hundredfold. 'The First
Great Powers' is a revelation: of kingship, warfare, society and
religion. Here at last we can discover what it meant to be an
ancient Mesopotamian living in such an extraordinary world.
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