The Cambridge Ancient History: Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B.C. - Softcover

Bury, J.B.

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9781503247345: The Cambridge Ancient History: Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B.C.

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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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J.B. Bury was a well-known historian who wrote part of the voluminous Cambridge Ancient History, and this part of it covers the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt, a long period of political unification and stability enabled the kings of the Old Kingdom to develop and exploit natural resources, to mobilize both the manpower and the technical skill to build the pyramids, and to encourage sculptors in the production of works of superlative quality. After a period of anarchy and civil war at the end of the Sixth Dynasty the local rulers of Thebes established the so-called Middle Kingdom, restoring an age of political calm in which the arts could again flourish. In Western Asia, Babylonia was the main centre and source of civilisation, and her moral, though not always her military, hegemony was recognized and accepted by the surrounding countries of Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Assyria and Elam.

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