First Civilizations - Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Second Edition) - Robert Chadwick
Epilogue: The twilight of the first civilizations
First Civilizations - Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Second Edition) - Robert Chadwick
Robert Chadwick [+]
Bishop's University
Robert Chadwick is the co-director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project and currently teaches in the Religion Department at Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Description
The final chapter looks at how the conquest of Egypt by the Persians had marked a turning point of the two great river civilizations in the Near East and how over the next several centuries both Egypt and Mesopotamia lost power and influence first under the Persians and then the Greeks, Romans and the new Christian powers who succeeded them, whose rise put an end, finally, to the old religions.