Two 30-minute lectures on each disc. Teaching Company: course number 3150. Compact discs and book. Course guidebook includes bibliographical references. Taught by Professor Robert L. Dise, Jr., University of Northern Iowa.
Contents:
Part 1. Lecture 1. A meditation on empire -- Lecture 2. Lands, seas, and sources -- Lecture 3. Sargon and the dawn of empire -- Lecture 4. The Third Dynasty of Ur -- Lecture 5. The empire of Hammurabi -- Lecture 6. Mitanni and the Kassites -- Lecture 7. The rise of Hatti -- Lecture 8. The government of Hatti -- Lecture 9. Hatti at war -- Lecture 10. The climax and collapse of Hatti -- Lecture 11. The rise of the Egyptian empire -- Lecture 12. The imperial army and administration. Part 2. Lecture 13. The end of the Egyptian empire -- Lecture 14. The Minoan thalassocracy -- Lecture 15. Mycenae and the dawn of Greece -- Lecture 16. The collapse of the Mycenaean world -- Lecture 17. The birth of Israel -- Lecture 18. The empire of David and Solomon -- Lecture 19. The dawn of Assyria -- Lecture 20. The rise of the neo-Assyrian empire -- Lecture 21. The government of Assyria -- Lecture 22. Assyria at war -- Lecture 23. The climax and collapse of Assyria -- Lecture 24. The Neo-Babylonian empire. Part 3. Lecture 25. The rise of the Persian empire -- Lecture 26. The outbreak of the Greek wars -- Lecture 27. Xerxes and the invasion of Greece -- Lecture 28. From Plataea to the peace of Callias -- Lecture 29. The Persian empire from 450 to 334 -- Lecture 30. The government and army of Persia -- Lecture 31. Alexander and the fall of Persia -- Lecture 32. The origins of Carthage and its empire -- Lecture 33. Ruling and defending Carthage's empire -- Lecture 34. The first war with Rome -- Lecture 35. Hannibal and the fall of Carthage -- Lecture 36. Ancient empires before Alexander, and after.
Summary:
Thirty-six 30-minute lectures at the college level. Offers a careful analysis of the cultural, political, and military history of the great early empires, placing the later Greek and Roman empires in their proper historical context.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.