02242ctm a2200385 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300700030003000800410003301000170007402000430009102000400013402000260017402000230020003500240022304000720024704200080031904300120032705000220033908200210036110000210038224500790040326000630048230000600054550000520060550400510065750506110070852003110131965100320163065100420166265100270170465100370173165100350176865100530180317138113OSt20250616140113.0ta170915s2010    nyuabf   b    001 0 eng    a  2012003104  a9781250000071 (hardcover : alk. paper)  a1250000076 (hardcover : alk. paper)  z9781429941068 (ebook)  z1429941065 (ebook)  a(OCoLC)ocn740628621  aDLCbengcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdYDXCPdZQPdBDXdUPZdORXdBWXdCDXdDLC  apcc  aa-iq---00aDS69.5b.K75 201200a935 Kri 20102231 aKriwaczek, Paul.10aBabylon :bMesopotamia and the birth of civilization /cby Paul Kriwaczek.  aNew York :bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,cc2010.  aviii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates :bill., maps ;c24 cm.  aFirst published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aLessons from the Past : an Introduction -- Kingship Descends from Heaven : The Urban Revolution Before 4000 BCE -- The City of Gilgamesh : Temple Rule between c. 4000 and 3000 BCE -- The Flood : a Caesura in History -- Big Men and Kings : The City-States, c. 3000 to 2300 BCE -- Rulers of the Four Quarters : The Bronze Heroic Age, c. 2300 to 2200 BCE -- Sumer Resurgent : The Dirigiste State, c. 2100 to 2000 BCE -- Old Babylon : The Culmination, c. 1900 to 1600 BCE -- Empire of Ashur : Colossus of the First Millennium, c. 1800 BCE to 700 BCE -- Passing the Baton : an End and a Beginning after 700 BCE.  aHistorian Kriwaczek (Yiddish Civilization) brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, with its tales of the Great Flood and the epics of semidivine heroes such as Gilgamesh. 0aIraqxCivilizationyTo 634. 0aBabylon (Extinct city)xCivilization. 0aIraqxHistoryyTo 634. 0aBabylon (Extinct city)xHistory. 0aIraqxPolitics and government. 0aBabylon (Extinct city)xPolitics and government.