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Detailed Contents
DOCUMENTS XIV
MAPS XVII
FEATURES XIX
PREFACE XX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XXVI
INTRODUCTION TO STUDENTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION XXX
STUDYING FROM PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS
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2 The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires 27
On the Fringes of Civilization 28
The Impact of the Indo-Europeans 28
The Hebrews: ‘‘The Children of Israel’’ 30
Was There a United Kingdom of Israel? 30 The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah 30
The Spiritual Dimensions of Israel 32
The Neighbors of the Israelites 34
The Assyrian Empire 36
1 The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations 1
The First Humans 2
The Emergence of Homo sapiens 2
The Hunter-Gatherers of the Old Stone Age 3
The Neolithic Revolution (ca. 10,000–4000 B.C.E.) 4
Organization of the Empire 37 The Assyrian Military Machine Assyrian Society and Culture 38 OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
THE GOVERNING OF EMPIRES: TWO APPROACHES 39
The Persian Empire 40
The Emergence of Civilization 6
Civilization in Mesopotamia 7
The City-States of Ancient Mesopotamia 7 Empires in Ancient Mesopotamia 9
The Culture of Mesopotamia 12
Egyptian Civilization: ‘‘The Gift of the Nile’’
The Impact of Geography 14
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
THE GREAT FLOOD: TWO VERSIONS 15
The Old and Middle Kingdoms 16
Society and Economy in Ancient Egypt 18
The Culture of Egypt 18
Disorder and a New Order: The New Kingdom 20
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Cyrus the Great (559–530 B.C.E.) 40 Expanding the Empire 42 Governing the Empire 42
The Great King 44
Persian Religion 44
Chapter Summary, Timeline, and Review 45
The Civilization of the Greeks 48
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Family and Marriage 21
IMAGES OF EVERYDAY LIFE
THE EGYPTIAN DIET 22
Chapter Summary, Timeline, and Review 24
Early Greece 49
Minoan Crete 49
The First Greek State: Mycenae 51
The Greeks in a Dark Age (ca. 1100–ca. 750 B.C.E.) 51
Homer and Homeric Greece 52 Homer’s Enduring Importance 52
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