Babylon: Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization

Lessons from the Past : an Introduction

Kingship Descends from Heaven : The Urban Revolution Before 4000 BCE

The City of Gilgamesh : Temple Rule between c. 4000 and 3000 BCE

The Flood : a Caesura in History

Big Men and Kings : The City-States, c. 3000 to 2300 BCE

Rulers of the Four Quarters : The Bronze Heroic Age, c. 2300 to 2200 BCE

Sumer Resurgent : The Dirigiste State, c. 2100 to 2000 BCE

Old Babylon : The Culmination, c. 1900 to 1600 BCE

Empire of Ashur : Colossus of the First Millennium, c. 1800 BCE to 700 BCE

Passing the Baton : an End and a Beginning after 700 BCE.