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Ancient Egypt and Early China
2021,2025
Overview
Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great
civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548-1086 BCE) and Han
dynasty China (206 BCE-220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both
were centered around major, flood-prone rivers-the Nile and the
Yellow River-and established complex hydraulic systems to manage
their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that
were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods
of radical reform led by charismatic rulers-the \"heretic king\"
Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice
was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by
bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special
status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an
afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access
to these realms.
This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of
these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art
historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and
Early China reveals shared structural traits of each
civilization as well as distinctive features.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Subject
/ Ancient
/ Asia
/ China
/ China-Civilization-221 B.C.-960 A.D
/ China-History-Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D
/ Egypt
/ Egypt-Civilization-To 332 B.C
/ Egypt-History-New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C
/ Han dynasty, 202 B.C.–220 A.D
/ HISTORY
/ New Kingdom, ca. 1550–ca. 1070 B.C
/ scribes
ISBN
0295748893, 9780295748894, 9780295748900, 0295748907
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