Page 13 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

Contents

15 The philosopher king 1370-1300 b.c. 246
The rule of Akhenaten . . . monotheism . . . war in Syria
. . . corruption and rapacity . . . High Priest Ai, the new dic­
tator of Egypt . . . Nefertiti and Tutenkhamon . . . the pass­
ing of the royal lineage

16 The wide view (n) *73
Mixture of peoples . . . trade for bronze implements • . .
settled agricultural communities of Peru, Central America, Mex­
ico . . . growth of European “cultures”. . . growth of manu­
facturing and marketing . . . great new city at An-yang . . .
Chinese huntsmen . . . the Shang Dynasty

BOOK IV: BRONZE AND IRON

17 The exodus 1300-1230 b.c. 293
Moses in the Sinai desert . . . the land of Canaan . . . the
Egyptian army moves north against the Hittites . . . Moses9
code of laws . . . the tribes of Israel . . . the fall of Jericho
. . . the conquest of Palestine
18 The sack of troy 1230-1160 b.c. 316
The training of Agamemnon and Menelaus . . . dynastic strug­
gles in Greece . . . kidnapping of Helen . . . the war for Asia
Minor . . . Odysseus and Achilles . . . siege engines . . . the
return to Sparta
19 The wolf on the fold 1160-1090 b.c. 341
Assyrians, Babylonians, Elamites, Persians . . . camels from
Arabia . . . the campaigns of Nebuchadnezzar and Tiglathpile-
ser . . . the great Assyrian army
20 The Celtic dawn 1090-1020 b.c. 365

Troublesome Scythians . . . Phrygians . . . Dorians . . . Thra­
cians . . . young Celtic warriors settle the Danube valley . . .
the Hallstatt foundries . . . the Alpine herdsmen . . . Camo-
nica valley ... a Celtic confederacy
21 The end of an era 1020-1000 b.c. 384

The Chou kingdom rules the Yellow River valley . . . the new
city of Lo-yang . . . rural pharaohs in Egypt . . . divided
Palestine . . . Saul against the Philistines

22 The beginning of an era
394
Advantages of bronze over stone . . . progressive, expanding
economy . . . pressure of nomad pastoralists . . . attraction
toward farmlands and civilized regions . . . domestication of
horse and camel . . . local warfare becomes endemic war for
survival and supremacy . . . spread of ironworking ... a dark
begins a new religion in India . . . Phoenicians invent the
phabet

Index follows page 398