A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by Beaulieu, Paul-Alain -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Maps Preface List of Abbreviations Author’s Note 1 Introductory Concerns

1.1 Assyriology and the Writing of History 1.2 Historical Science and the Handling of Sources 1.3 Chronology FURTHER READING

2 The Sumero‐Akkadian Background

2.1 Babylonia as Geographic Unit 2.2 The Natural Environment 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution 2.4 The Ubaid Period (6500–4000) 2.5 The Uruk Period (4000–3100) 2.6 The Jemdet Nasr Period (3100–2900) 2.7 The Early Dynastic Period (2900–2350) 2.8 The Sargonic (Old Akkadian) and Gutian Periods (ca. 2334–2113) 2.9 The Third Dynasty of Ur (2112–2004) FURTHER READING

3 The Rise of Babylon

3.1 The First Dynasty of Isin (2017–1794) 3.2 The Amorites 3.3 Date Lists and King Lists of Babylon I 3.4 Elusive Beginnings 3.5 Sumu‐la‐el (1880–1845) 3.6 Half a Century of Stability (1844–1793) 3.7 Hammu‐rabi (1792–1750) FURTHER READING

4 Decline of the First Dynasty

4.1 The Reign of Samsu‐iluna (1749–1712) 4.2 The Last Century of Babylon I (1711–1595) FURTHER READING

5 Kassite Ascendancy

5.1 The Kassites as Linguistic and Cultural Group 5.2 The Early Kassite Period (1595–ca. 1400) 5.3 Kassite Babylonia: The Documentary Evidence 5.4 Karduniash: A New Babylonia 5.5 The Age of Amarna 5.6 The Rise of Assyria 5.7 The Middle Kassite Period (1332–1225) 5.8 The Intervention of Tukulti‐Ninurta I and its Aftermath 5.9 End of the Kassite Regime (1186–1155) 5.10 Akkadian Literature under the Kassites FURTHER READING

6 Second Dynasty of Isin

6.1 Marduk and Nabu 6.2 Renewed Conflict with Assyria 6.3 Nebuchadnezzar I (1121–1100) 6.4 Sealand Memories under Enlil‐nadin‐apli (1099–1096) 6.5 Marduk‐nadin‐ahhe (1095–1078) 6.6 Marduk‐shapik‐zeri (1077–1065) 6.7 Adad‐apla‐iddina (1064–1043) 6.8 The End of Isin II (1042–1022) FURTHER READING

7 Arameans and Chaldeans

7.1 The Arameans 7.2 The Chaldeans 7.3 Three Short Dynasties 7.4 The Dynasty of E FURTHER READING

8 The Assyrian Century

8.1 The Rebellion of Mukin‐zeri 8.2 The palû of Baltil (728–722) 8.3 Marduk‐apla‐iddina II and Chaldean Resistance (721–709) 8.4 The palû of Habigal (709–694) 8.5 The Two Shuzubus (694–689) 8.6 Sennacherib’s Desecration of Babylon (689–681) 8.7 Esarhaddon Restores Babylon (681–669) 8.8 Regnant Siblings (669–652) 8.9 Civil War (652–648) 8.10 Ashurbanipal and Kandalanu (647–630/27) FURTHER READING

9 Imperial Heyday

9.1 Sources 9.2 Power Struggle for Babylonia (630–620) 9.3 A Chaldeo‐Aramean Empire 9.4 The Fall of Assyria (616–609) 9.5 Nabopolassar and the Restoration of Babylonia 9.6 Nebuchadnezzar in the Levant 9.7 The Climax of Babylon 9.8 A Problematic Succession (562–556) 9.9 Babylon’s Twilight: The Reign of Nabonidus (555–539) FURTHER READING

10 Babylon under Foreign Rule

10.1 Cyrus Enters Babylon 10.2 A Smooth Transition 10.3 The Babylonian Pretenders of 522–521 10.4 The Reforms of Darius I 10.5 The Babylonian Pretenders of 484 10.6 Babylonia in the Late Achaemenid Period 10.7 Hellenistic Babylonia 10.8 Alexander and his Successors in Babylon (331–311) 10.9 Babylon and Seleucia 10.10 An Age of Renewal 10.11 Hellenization of Babylonia 10.12 Parthian Takeover 10.13 Sic Transit FURTHER READING

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