The pre-Islamic Middle East / Martin Sicker.

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Main Author: Sicker, Martin
Corporate Author: Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index. 
505 0 |a The Middle East in early antiquity -- Egypt and Asia -- The rise and decline of Assyria -- The rise and fall of Media -- The empire of the Achaemenids -- The Persian-Greek wars -- The Macedonian conquest -- The dissolution of Alexander's empire -- Reconfiguration of the Middle East -- Rome enters the Middle East -- The Roman-Parthian conflict -- The struggle over the Euphrates frontier -- The Roman-Persian stalemate -- The era of Shapur II -- The struggle for Persia's frontiers -- End of the Sassanid empire. 
520 8 |a Annotation  |b Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective. He provides ample evidence that geographical and religious factors conditioning political decision-making have tended to promote military solutions to essentially political problems, a pattern that characterizes subsequent events in the region. 
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