TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Kriwaczek,Paul
TI  - Babylon: Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization 
SN  - 9781250000071 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - DS69.5 .K75 2012
U1  - 935 Kri 2010 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Civilization
KW  - To 634
KW  - Babylon (Extinct city)
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - First published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; Lessons 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
N2  - Historian 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
ER  -