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The Amorites: Kings of Early Mesopotamia

The Amorites: Kings of Early Mesopotamia

Rowan, Elliot

Paperback

Series: Forgotten Civilizations

Ancient History GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern History

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ISBN13: 9798170360987
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Amorites: Kings of Early Mesopotamia, Elliot Rowan explores the remarkable story of a people who entered Mesopotamian history as outsiders and rose to rule some of the greatest kingdoms of the ancient Near East. Emerging from the lands west of the Euphrates, Amorite tribes gradually settled among the cities of Mesopotamia and Syria, establishing dynasties at Babylon, Mari, Larsa, Aleppo, and beyond. Within generations, leaders once associated with the pastoral frontier had become kings, administrators, diplomats, and patrons of one of the world's oldest urban civilizations.

Drawing on cuneiform archives, royal inscriptions, legal documents, and archaeological discoveries, Rowan reconstructs the Amorite world at the height of the early second millennium BC. He examines the magnificent palace and archives of Mari, the rival kingdoms that struggled for control of Mesopotamia, the sophisticated networks of diplomacy and royal marriage that connected distant courts, and the rise of Babylon under Hammurabi. Along the way, the book explores everyday life, religion, trade, scribal culture, government, and the famous laws associated with Hammurabi, placing them within the broader traditions from which they emerged.

More than the history of a collection of ancient dynasties, this book reveals how migration and cultural exchange transformed Mesopotamian civilization. The Amorites adopted the institutions of the cities they came to rule while reshaping kingship, diplomacy, law, and political organization for generations to come. Their distinct identity eventually faded, but the kingdoms they built and the traditions they carried forward helped define the civilization of the ancient Near East long after the last Amorite kings had disappeared.

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