| Description |
18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course books (241, 244, 246 pages ; 22 cm). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Performer |
Professor Robert L. Dise, Jr., teacher. |
| Note |
Course number 3150. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Lecture 1. A meditation on empire -- Lecture 2. Lands, seas, and sources -- Lecture 3. Sargon and the dawn of empire -- Lecture 4. The Third Dynasty of Ur -- Lecture 5. The empire of Hammurabi -- Lecture 6. Mitanni and the Kassites -- Lecture 7. The rise of Hatti -- Lecture 8. The government of Hatti -- Lecture 9. Hatti at war -- Lecture 10. The climax and collapse of Hatti -- Lecture 11. The rise of the Egyptian empire -- Lecture 12. The Imperial Army and administration. |
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Part 2. Lecture 13. The end of the Egyptian empire -- Lecture 14. The Minoan Thalassocracy -- Lecture 15. Mycenae and the dawn of Greece -- Lecture 16. The collapse of the Mycenaean world -- Lecture 17. The birth of Israel -- Lecture 18. The empire of David and Solomon -- Lecture 19. The dawn of Assyria -- Lecture 20. The rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire -- Lecture 21. The government of Assyria -- Lecture 22. Assyria at war -- Lecture 23. The climax and collapse of Assyria -- Lecture 24. The Neo-Babylonian empire. |
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Part 3. Lecture 25. The rise of the Persian empire -- Lecture 26. The outbreak of the Greek wars -- Lecture 27. Xerxes and the invasion of Greece -- Lecture 28. From Plataea to the Peace of Callias -- Lecture 29. The Persian empire from 450 to 334 -- Lecture 30. The government and army of Persia -- Lecture 31. Alexander and the fall of Persia -- Lecture 32. The origins of Carthage and its empire -- Lecture 33. Ruling and defending Carthage's empire -- Lecture 34. The first war with Rome -- Lecture 35. Hannibal and the fall of Carthage -- Lecture 36. Ancient empires before Alexander, and after. |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- History.
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Hammurabi, King of Babylonia.
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Hittites -- History.
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Egypt -- History -- New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C.
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Minoans -- History.
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Israel -- History.
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Assyria -- History.
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Babylonia -- History.
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Iran -- History -- To 640.
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Carthage (Extinct city) -- History.
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Hammurabi, King of Babylonia. (OCoLC)fst00006481
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Hittites. (OCoLC)fst00958415
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Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
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Minoans. (OCoLC)fst01023064
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Egypt. (OCoLC)fst01208755
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Iran. (OCoLC)fst01204889
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Israel. (OCoLC)fst01204236
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Middle East -- Assyria.
(OCoLC)fst01220876
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Middle East -- Babylonia.
(OCoLC)fst01219361
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Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city)
(OCoLC)fst01896920
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| Chronological Term |
To 640
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
1598035568 |
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9781598035568 |
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