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Table of contents: Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Part One: Mesopotamia 1. Introduction: History and Archaeology as Tools for Understanding the Past 2. Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization 3. The Early Dynastic Period and the Sumerian City-States 4. The Akkadians and the Ur III Dynasty 5. Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium BC: The Babylonians and the Kassites (2000 - 1600 BC) 6. The Assyrians 7. The Last Babylonian Dynasty 8. Mythology and Religion: The Story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu 9. Science and Nature: Astronomy and Medicine in Mesopotamia and Egypt Part Two: Egypt 10. Egypt: The Black Land 11. The Old Kingdom and the Pyramid Age (2572 -2134 BC) 12. The Middle Kingdom 13. The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom 14. Akhenaten and the Amarna Period 15. The 19th Dynasty and the Ramesside Kings 16. Egypt in the Late Second and First Millennium BC: The Kushites, Libyans and Assyrians 17. The Persians 18. Epilogue Index
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Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.
Egypt -- Civilization -- 332 B.C.-638 A.D.