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008			170915s2010 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2012003104
020			_a9781250000071 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a1250000076 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_z9781429941068 (ebook)
020			_z1429941065 (ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn740628621
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050	0	0	_aDS69.5 _b.K75 2012
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100	1		_aKriwaczek, Paul.
245	1	0	_aBabylon : _bMesopotamia and the birth of civilization / _cby Paul Kriwaczek.
260			_aNew York : _bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, _cc2010.
300			_aviii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
500			_aFirst published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	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.
520			_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.
651		0	_aIraq _xCivilization _yTo 634.
651		0	_aBabylon (Extinct city) _xCivilization.
651		0	_aIraq _xHistory _yTo 634.
651		0	_aBabylon (Extinct city) _xHistory.
651		0	_aIraq _xPolitics and government.
651		0	_aBabylon (Extinct city) _xPolitics and government.
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