Военная история / The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity

Название: The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity
Автор: Aaron A. Burke
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 458
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 13 MB

In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from ca. 2500–1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a collective identity for the Amorites, one of the most famous groups in Ancient Near Eastern history, against the backdrop of both Akkadian imperial intervention and declining environmental conditions during this period. Tracing the migration of Amorite refugees from agropastoral communities into nearby regions, he shows how mercenarism in both Mesopotamia and Egypt played a central role in the acquisition of economic and political power between 2100 and 1900 BC.