Brotherhood of Kings
How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 January 2012
- ISBN 9780199858682
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 231x152x30 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 halftones & maps 0
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Short description:
Over four thousand years ago ambassadors and merchants overcame all manner of obstacles in order to ally the kings of the ancient Near East together as self-proclaimed brothers. This book takes readers on a journey across time and space-from the 24th to the 14th century BCE, and through deserts and river valleys-to meet the colorful characters who first began to tie cultures together.
MoreLong description:
Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day.
Allowing them to speak in their own words, Podany reveals how these leaders and their ambassadors devised a remarkably sophisticated system of diplomacy and trade. What the kings forged, as they saw it, was a relationship of friends-brothers-across hundreds of miles. Over centuries they worked out ways for their ambassadors to travel safely to one another's capitals, they created formal rules of interaction and ways to work out disagreements, they agreed to treaties and abided by them, and their efforts had paid off with the exchange of luxury goods that each country wanted from the other. Tied to one another through peace treaties and powerful obligations, they were also often bound together as in-laws, as a result of marrying one another's daughters. These rulers had almost never met one another in person, but they felt a strong connection--a real brotherhood--which gradually made wars between them less common. Indeed, any one of the great powers of the time could have tried to take over the others through warfare, but diplomacy usually prevailed and provided a respite from bloodshed. Instead of fighting, the kings learned from one another, and cooperated in peace.
A remarkable account of a pivotal moment in world history--the establishment of international diplomacy thousands of years before the United Nations--Brotherhood of Kings offers a vibrantly written history of the region often known as the "cradle of civilization."
an attractive and accessible work.
Table of Contents:
Contents
A Word about Chronology and Translation
Cast of Characters
Time Line
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Early Dynastic Period and Akkadian Empire, 1500-2000 BCE
The First Evidence for Diplomacy ("I am your brother and you are my brother")
Traders and Ships from Different Lands ("At the wharf of Akkad he made moor ships")
Part II: The Old Babylonian Period, 2000-1595 BCE
War and Allegiance ("I have always done good things for him and his heart knows the good deeds that I have done for him")
Long Journeys away from Home ("Who is there who would sell lapis-lazuli?")
Part III: A Time of Crisis and Change, 1595-1400 BCE
Attack on Babylon by a Distant Enemy ("I sent to a far-off land")
A Clash between Expanding Empires ("Prepare yourselves! Make your weapons ready! For one will engage in combat with that wretched foe in the morning")
Diplomatic Overtures between the Great Powers ("A notable event! The like of this occurrence had not been heard of since the time of the demigods"
Part IV: The Amarna Age, 1400-1300 BCE
Brother Kings United and at Peace ("My brother, whom I love and who loves me")
Diplomatic Marriages ("We, between us, are one, the Hurrian land and the land of Egypt ")
Luxury Goods from Eveyrwhere ("The gold is much. Among the kings there are brotherhood, amity, peace, and good relations")
A Crisis in the Brotherhood ("My father became hostile")
The End of an Empire and the Restoration of Peace ("My ancestors and your ancestors made a mutual declaration of friendship")
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
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