History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine
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History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine

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History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine

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Hitti has written a brilliant history of a land into which more historical and cultural events were crowded than any area of equal size. Syria has invented and transmitted to mankind such benefits as monotheistic religion, philosophy, law, trade, agriculture, and our alphabet.

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Information

Publisher
Gorgias Press
Year
2002
eBook ISBN
9781463209865
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History
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PART 
I 
of 
the 
Eastern 
Mediterranean.
1
Certain 
fundamental 
elements 
of 
the 
ancient 
Chinese 
civilization, 
we 
are 
beginning 
to 
learn, 
seem 
to 
have 
penetrated 
from 
the 
eastern 
horn 
of 
the 
Fertile 
Crescent. 
Even 
in 
pre-history 
Syria 
has, 
in 
recent 
years 
and 
as 
a 
result 
of 
archaeological 
investigation, 
loomed 
high 
in 
significance 
as 
the 
probable 
scene 
of 
the 
first 
domestication 
of 
wheat, 
the 
discovery 
of 
copper, 
the 
invention 
of 
local 
pottery, 
which 
resulted 
in 
changing 
the 
pattern 
of 
life 
from 
a 
hunting, 
nomadic 
way 
to 
an 
agricultural 
sedentary 
one. 
This 
region, 
therefore, 
may 
have 
experienced 
settled 
life 
in 
villages 
and 
towns 
before 
any 
other 
place 
we 
know. 
Earlier 
still, 
as 
we 
shall 
learn 
in 
the 
next 
chapter, 
it 
may 
have 
served 
as 
the 
nursery 
of 
one 
of 
our 
direct 
ancestors, 
the 
emerging 
Homo 
sapiens. 
1
V. 
Gordon 
Childe,
New 
Light 
on 
the 
Most 
Ancient 
East
(London, 
1934), 
ch. 
1. 

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. LIST OF MAPS
  5. LIST OF COINS
  6. PART I. THE PRE-LITERARY AGE
  7. CHAPTER I. PLACE IN HISTORY
  8. CHAPTER II. CULTURAL BACKGROUND: STONE IMPLEMENTS
  9. CHAPTER III. METAL IMPLEMENTS
  10. CHAPTER IV. THE SETTING OF THE STAGE
  11. CHAPTER V. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
  12. PART II. ANCIENT SEMITIC TIMES
  13. CHAPTER VI. THE ADVENT OF THE SEMITES
  14. CHAPTER VII. THE AMORITES: FIRST MAJOR SEMITIC COMMUNITY IN SYRIA
  15. CHAPTER VIII. THE CANAANITES: SECOND MAJOR SEMITIC PEOPLE IN SYRIA
  16. CHAPTER IX. MARITIME ACTIVITY AND COLONIAL EXPANSION
  17. CHAPTER X. LITERATURE, RELIGION AND OTHER ASPECTS OF CULTURAL LIFE
  18. CHAPTER XI. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS EGYPT
  19. CHAPTER XII. THE ARAMAEANS: THE THIRD MAJOR SEMITIC PEOPLE
  20. CHAPTER XIII. THE HEBREW PEOPLE
  21. CHAPTER XIV. THE HEBREW MONARCHY
  22. CHAPTER XV ASPECTS OF CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE: MONOTHEISM
  23. CHAPTER XVI: UNDER PERSIAN RULE — FROM THE SEMITIC ERA TO THE INDO-EUROPEAN
  24. PART III THE GRECO-ROMAN PERIOD
  25. CHAPTER XVII ALEXANDER AND HIS SUCCESSORS, THE SELEUCIDS
  26. CHAPTER XVIII. THE HELLENISTIC AGE
  27. CHAPTER XIX. SELEUCID INSTITUTIONS
  28. CHAPTER XX. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
  29. CHAPTER XXI. SYRIA AS A ROMAN PROVINCE: THE PRE-EMPIRE PERIOD
  30. CHAPTER XXII. UNDER THE EARLY ROMAN EMPERORS
  31. CHAPTER XXIII. CITY AND COUNTRY LIFE
  32. CHAPTER XXIV. INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY
  33. CHAPTER XXV. THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY
  34. CHAPTER XXVI. SYRIANIZING VERSUS ROMANIZING
  35. CHAPTER XXVII. BYZANTINE SYRIA
  36. CHAPTER XXVIII. AN ECCLESIASTICAL AGE
  37. CHAPTER XXIX. PRE-ISLAMIC SYRO-ARAB STATES
  38. PART IV. THE ARAB ERA
  39. CHAPTER XXX. SYRIA IN THE EMBRACE OF ISLAM
  40. CHAPTER XXXI. ARAB ADMINISTRATION
  41. CHAPTER XXXII. THE ORTHODOX CALIPHATE
  42. CHAPTER XXXIII. MU'ĀWIYAH ESTABLISHES THE UMAYYAD CALIPHATE
  43. CHAPTER XXXIV. HOSTILE RELATIONS WITH THE BYZANTINES
  44. CHAPTER XXXV. DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES : SHI'ITES, MEDINESE, PERSIANS
  45. CHAPTER XXXVI. THE GLORY THAT WAS DAMASCUS
  46. CHAPTER XXXVII. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS UNDER THE UMAYYADS
  47. CHAPTER XXXVIII. HIGHER ASPECTS OF LIFE UNDER THE UMAYYADS
  48. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE SYRIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH
  49. CHAPTER XL. FALL OF THE UMAYYAD DYNASTY
  50. CHAPTER XLI. SYRIA AN 'ABBĀSID PROVINCE
  51. CHAPTER XLII. SYRIAN CONTRIBUTION TO ARAB RENAISSANCE
  52. CHAPTER XLIII. SYRIA AN ADJUNCT OF MINOR STATES
  53. CHAPTER XLIV. BETWEEN SALJŪQS AND FĀȚIMIDS
  54. CHAPTER XLV. MEETING OF EAST AND WEST: THE CRUSADES
  55. CHAPTER XLVI. CULTURAL INTERACTION
  56. CHAPTER XLVII. AYYŪBIDS AND MAMLŪKS
  57. PART V. UNDER THE OTTOMAN TURKS
  58. CHAPTER XLVIII. SYRIA A TURKISH PROVINCE
  59. CHAPTER XLIX. THE MA'NS AND THE SHIHĀBS: LORDS OF LEBANON
  60. CHAPTER L. THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE
  61. INDEX