First civilizations
Subtitle: ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt
By: Robert Chadwick.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oakville, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.; Egypt -- Civilization -- 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-261) and index.
Previous ed.: Montreal : Les Editions Champ Fleury, 1996.
Table of contents: title: Mesopotamia: Agriculture and the origins of civilization; title: The early dynastic period and the Sumerian city-states; title: The Akkadians and the Ur III Dynasty; title: Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium BC; title: The Assyrians; title: The last Babylonian dynasty; title: Mythology and religion; title: Science and nature; title: Egypt: Egypt; title: The old kingdom and the pyramid age (2572 -2134 BC); title: The middle kingdom; title: The Hyksos period and the new kingdom; title: Akhenaten and the Amarna period; title: The 19th dynasty and the Ramesside kings; title: Egypt in the late Second and First Millennium BC; title: The Persians.