Chapter 2. The Primary Actors: States
Published Online: 16 APR 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696644.ch2
Copyright © 2007 Marc Van De Mieroop
Book Title
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II
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How to Cite
Van De Mieroop, M. (2008) The Primary Actors: States, in The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470696644.ch2
Publication History
- Published Online: 16 APR 2008
- Published Print: 16 NOV 2007
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405160698
Online ISBN: 9780470696644
- Summary
- Chapter
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Keywords:
- specialists;
- monuments;
- individual states;
- chronology;
- historical conditions
Summary
This chapter contains section titled:
A Note on Chronology
A Dark Age in the Middle of the Second Millennium
1500: The First Superpowers: Mittanni and the Egyptian New Kingdom
1450: A Second Wave of State Formation
1350: The Final Three: Elam, Assyria, and Hatti
Regional Power Struggles
The Road to Qadesh
The End of an Era
The Aftermath