Ebook: The Ancient East

Книга The Ancient East The Ancient East Книги Исторические Автор: D. G. (David George) Hogarth Год издания: 1950 Формат: pdf Издат.:Hard Press Страниц: 253 Размер: 7,6 Mb ISBN: 1406936464 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:The earliest of the centres of power to develop foreign empire was also that destined, after many vicissitudes, to hold it latest, because it was the best endowed by nature to repair the waste which empire entails. This was the region which would be known later as Babylonia from the name of the city which in historic times dominated it, but, as we now know, was neither an early seat of power nor the parent of its distinctive local civilization. This honour, if due to any one city, should be credited to Ur, whose also was the first and the only truly "Babylonian" empire.