Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East pdf

阿曼达通过 是加州州立理工大学波莫纳分校的历史教授，专门研究古代美索不达米亚和叙利亚。 她最近的项目是名为“古代美索不达米亚：文明摇篮中的生活”的伟大课程的音频和视频讲座系列。 她还是《古代近东：非常简短的介绍》（牛津大学出版社，2014 年）和屡获殊荣的国王兄弟会：国际关系如何塑造古代近东（牛津大学出版社，2010 年）的作者。 后者探讨了从公元前 2300 年到公元前 1300 年，近东及其他地区的王国和个人之间的关系。 她以前的著作包括关于古代叙利亚王国年表的《哈纳之地：国王、年表和抄写传统》（CDL 出版社，2002 年），以及与儿童读物作者 Marni McGee （牛津大学）合着的《古代近东世界》。 , 2004), 这是为中学生设计的通用作品。

Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East pdf 阿曼达通过

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 day. Allowing them to speak in their own words, Podany reveals how these leaders and their ambassadors devised a remarkably sophisticated system of diplomacy and trade. What the kings forged, as they saw it, was a relationship of friends-brothers-across hundreds of miles. Over centuries they worked out ways for their ambassadors to travel safely to one another's capitals, they created formal rules of interaction and ways to work out disagreements, they agreed to treaties and abided by them, and their efforts had paid off with the exchange of luxury goods that each country wanted from the other. Tied to one another through peace treaties and powerful obligations, they were also often bound together as in-laws, as a result of marrying one another's daughters. These rulers had almost never met one another in person, but they felt a strong connection--a real brotherhood--which gradually made wars between them less common. Indeed, any one of the great powers of the time could have tried to take over the others through warfare, but diplomacy usually prevailed and provided a respite from bloodshed. Instead of fighting, the kings learned from one another, and cooperated in peace. A remarkable account of a pivotal moment in world history--the establishment of international diplomacy thousands of years before the United Nations--Brotherhood of Kings offers a vibrantly written history of the region often known as the "cradle of civilization."