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Archeologie --- Archéologie --- Assyriologie --- Cuneiform tablets --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Akkadian language --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Diyarbakır İli (Turkey) --- Giricano (Extinct city) --- Antiquities. --- Giricano (Extinct city).

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This book introduces the reader to the state correspondences of centralized states and empires of the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the 15th century BC to the 6th century AD, and analyses their role in ensuring the success and stability of these geographically extensive state systems. Letters play an important role in the cohesion of early empires, by enabling reliable and confidential long-distance communication and by facilitating the successful delegation of power from the central administration to the provinces -- challenges that in the absence of major technological advances rema

Government correspondence --- Colonies --- Imperialism --- Correspondance administrative --- Impérialisme --- History --- Administration --- Histoire --- Middle East --- Rome --- Moyen-Orient --- Administration. --- Palestine -- History -- 70-638. --- Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D. --- Roman empire. --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Colonialism & Postcolonialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- Correspondence, Government --- Letter writing --- Public records --- E-books --- Impérialisme --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Orient --- Palestine -- History -- 70-638 --- Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D --- Roman empire --- Asia, West --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Government correspondence - Middle East - History - To 1500 --- Government correspondence - Rome --- Colonies - Administration - History - To 1500 --- Imperialism - History - To 1500 --- Middle East - Colonies - Administration --- Rome - Colonies - Administration

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Assyria --- Ashur (Extinct city) --- Assyrie --- Assour (Ville ancienne) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Akkadian language --- Ashur (Ancient city) --- Asshur (Extinct city) --- Assur (Extinct city) --- Iraq

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"Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587 BC and their forcible removal by Nebuchadnezzar to the alien floodlands of the Euphrates. But to see Babylon only as an adjunct to Old Testament history is misleading. A Short History of Babylon explores the ever-changing city that shaped world history for two millennia."--

Babylon (Extinct city) --- History. --- Civilization. --- Babilònia (Ciutat antiga)

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