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Available
Publication
New York ; Oxford : Facts on File, 1990.
Description
Explores the geographical/ethnographic background, and cultural history of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East, and features a tour of modern-day regions. Includes a chronological table, over fifty maps, and illustrations.
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From the Villages, to Cities, to Empires (Assyria, Lydia, Babylonia, Medes, Persia).
Few histories avoid the sheer stupifying plutons of irony which litter the landscape. For example, it was Persia under one of its greatest monarchs, Cyrus, who liberated the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity [204,
Contains a Glossary.
Few histories avoid the sheer stupifying plutons of irony which litter the landscape. For example, it was Persia under one of its greatest monarchs, Cyrus, who liberated the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity [204,
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215]. Today, the Persians are led by a man indifferent to history, but devoted to an ideology at odds with the same Jews who adopted and saved so much Persian wisdom in their almost single-handed and unappreciated tradition of passing information between generations. Contains a Glossary.
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Original publication date
1990
ISBN
0816022186 / 9780816022182