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Eleven - Strategies of Empire Expansion

from III - Comparing Repertoires of Rule in Rural and Peripheral Regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2018

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The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes
A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
 , pp. 301 - 323
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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