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Climate change : environment and history of the Near East / Arie S. Issar, Mattanyah Zohar

Author
Issar, A.
Published
Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Description
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Zohar, Mattanyah

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Contents
THE PENDULUM OF PARADIGMS -- CONSTRUCTING THE JIGSAW PUZZLE OF PALEO-CLIMATES: The climatological and historical background -- Time series of proxy-data to decipher climates of the past -- THE NEAR EAST: A BRIDGE FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN TO THE FIELDS OF TOIL: The password 'Climate Change' -- The establishment of agricultural villages - The pre pottery neolithic -(6000-8000 B.C.E.) -- THE GREAT TRANSITION - FROM FARMING VILLAGES TO URBAN CENTERS: The progress of climate -- The first technological revolution - The pottery neolithic period -- The metallurgical revolution - The chalcolithic period -- From copper to bronze - The beginning of the early bronze age -- URBAN REVOLUTION AND THE DAWN OF HISTORY: The first cities and a new order -- The climate background - When cities drowned and the desert bloomed -- The early bronze age in the Levant and Anatolia -- The great civilizations -- DARK AGE, RENAISSANCE, AND DECAY: The crisis years - The climate evidence -- The archaeological and historical evidence about the intermediate bronze age -- The 'winning of the south' - the migration southward -- The crisis years in Egypt -- The late bronze age, ca. 1500 to 1200 B.C.E. -- and MIGRATIONS AND SETTLINGS: The end of the age of bronze and the beginning of a new world -- Focussing on the impact of climate on the events at the end of the second millenium B.C.E. -- The wave pattern of migrations and the "Sea Peoples" -- A glance at Ugarit -- The Armaeans and the 'Wandering of the Israelites' -- The formative years of the Israelite nation -- THE AGE OF IRON AND EMPIRES: The Armaeans occupy center stage -- The empires of Assyria and Babylon - A brief and brutal performance -- The Persian Empire and the first unification of the ancient near east -- Hellenism dominates the near east and unites east and west -- Under the boot of Rome and the beginning of christianity -- The Arabs and Islam emerge from the desert -- CRUSADERS, MAMLUKS, AND OTTOMANS ON THE EVE OF THE ERA OF INDUSTRY: The Crusadors' interlude -- The slaves who became sultans - Mamluks, Mongols and Turks -- The Ottoman centuries: Peace and stagnation -- AN EPILOGUE: The near east enters the era of technology and global change.
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ISBN
9783540698517 (acid-free paper)
3540698515 (acid-free paper)
Note
Rev. ed. of: Climate change : environment and civilization in the Middle East. c2004.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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