Early Antiquity

Foreword by Philip L. Kohl
Introduction by the Editorial Board
1. General Outline of the First Period of the History of the Ancient World and the Problem of the Ways of Development
I. M. Diakonoff
2. The City-States of Sumer
I. M. Diakonoff
3. Early Despotisms in Mesopotamia
I. M. Diakonoff
4. The Old Babylonian Period of Mesopotamian History
N. V. Kozyreva
5. Sumerian Culture
V. K. Afanasieva
6. The Predynastic Period and the Early and the Old Kingdoms in Egypt
I. V. Vinogradov
7. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Hyksos Invastion
I. V. Vinogradov
8. The New Kingdom of Egypt
I. V. Vinogradov
9. The Culture of Ancient Egypt
I. A. Lapis
10. The First States in India and the Pre-Urban Cultures of Central Asia and Iran
G. F. Il'yin and I. M. Diakonoff
11. Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe
N. B. Jankowska
12. Mesopotamia in the Sixteenth to Eleventh Centuries B.C.
V. A. Jakobson
13. The Hittite Kingdom
G. G. Giorgadze
14. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the Third and Second Millennia B.C.
I. M. Diakonoff
15. The World of Crete and Mycenae
Yu. V. Andreyev
16. Greece of the Eleventh to Ninth Centuries B.C. in the Homeric Epics
Yu. V. Andreyev
17. Phoenician and Greek Colonization
Yu. B. Tsirkin
18. India, Central Asia, and Iran in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C.
G. F. Il'yin and I. M. Diakonoff
19. The First States in China
T. V. Stepugina
20. China in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C.
T. V. Stepugina
Maps
Index