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Brotherhood of Kings
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East | Amanda H. Podany
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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 (…more)
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RosePressedPages
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What a fascinating topic! Podany writes an accesible, well written, and interesting narrative about one of the first documented international systems in Mesopotamia called the Club of Great Powers. It functioned on a system of brotherhood between great kings, and spanned from 3000 BC to about 1177 BC, ending with the catastrophic Bronze Age Collapse. I‘m super excited to write my undergrad thesis about it!

LiseWorks Wonderful topic 3y
RosePressedPages @LiseWorks Thank you! I‘ll be doing a gender analysis of it :) 3y
IuliaC A great topic! 3y
batsy That's so fascinating! 3y
MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 3y
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Fantastic, super readable book about politics and relations between the ancient Near eastern superpowers such as Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Mitanni and the Hittites. Arranged marriages, the first peace treaty ever, diplomatic gifts of astounding riches...Podany makes it always entertaining and you don‘t need any previous knowledge to understand anything in it. If you want a different #historyread on such an important part of the World, this is it.

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You think the fearsome Hittite army would have been afraid of me at the salon??

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"On the second floor of the British Museum, Gallery 55 attracts fewer visitors than the cathedral-like halls of Egyptian and Assyrian statuary downstairs. It is an unassuming gallery, recently redesigned, full of small objects from the later years of ancient Mesopotamian history." #firstlines #historyread

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