The Pax Assyriaca
This volume provides a study of the evolutionary process of ancient civilizations, stressing the comparison between theoretical principles and relevant historical and archaeological evidence. For this reason, the study focusses on the origin, development and collapse of the first stage of the ‘Central Civilization’, which was the result of the merger of two primeval civilizations, Mesopotamia and Egypt, during the ‘Near Eastern phase’ of this Central Civilisation. This merger seems to have been the result of the political expansion of an imperial entity coming from Mesopotamia under the aegis of the so-called Neo-Assyrian Empire from 1000 BC to 600 BC – better known as the Pax Assyriaca – although the process of full integration with Egypt seems to have been concluded, according to the archaeological records, only by the successor empires of Assyria circa 430 BC.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Concept of Civilization
Historical Evolution of Civilisations
CHAPTER 1
The Historical Evolution of the Ancient Near East and the Rise of the Assyrian Phenomenon
The Ancient Near East as Geopolitical Entity
The Land of Mesopotamia as the Cradle of Civilisation
The Mesopotamian Symbiosis
The Assyrian Phenomenon
The Ancient Near East and the ‘Catastrophe’ at the End of the Bronze Age
CHAPTER 2
The Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Pax Assyriaca
The Meaning of ‘Empire’ and its Principal Dimensions
The Neo-Assyrian Expansion and its Peripheral Politics of Domination
The Neo-Assyrian Hierarchy of its Imperial Core
The Neo-Assyrian Order and its Global Context
CHAPTER 3
Ancient Egypt and the Pax Assyriaca
General Introduction to the Egyptian Civilisation
Ancient Egypt and the Neo-Assyrian’s Peripheral Politics of Domination
Ancient Egypt and the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Core
Ancient Egypt and the Neo-Assyrian Order in its Global Context
CHAPTER 4
The Collapse of the Pax Assyriaca
The Collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Ancient Egypt and the Collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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