A Fragmented World

Cambridge University Press eBooks, pp. 5–26

Abstract

The Ancient Near East gave rise to some of the earliest empires in world history. The largest states of the world were located in Mesopotamia and Egypt more than a millennium before a state of similar size emerged in China, and only in the second half of the first millennium BCE do comparably large political entities emerge in other regions such as India and the Mediterranean.

Authors 1

1. Bleda S. Dürıng corresponding Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Universiteit Leiden