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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. 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-Assyrians 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 Read more