international order, 1053
justification of war, 1060
mutual assistance and
non-aggression pacts, 1054–1055
other states, 1052
political relations, 1053
political structure, 1051–1052
prisoners of war, 1062
refugees, runaways and deserters,
1063
sanctions, 1059
territorial states, 1052
treaties, 1054–1057
vassal treaties, 1055
war, 1059–1061
international system, 83–84
Late Bronze Age, 754–759
Middle Bronze Age, 745–747
third millennium, 242–244
Late Bronze Age, 753–773
Assyria, 757–758, 759
Babylonia, 758
borders, 762
Canaan, 737
correspondence, 765
customary international law, 765–769
declaration of war, 769
depositions, 763
divine ambassadors, 767
divine sanctions, 764
Egyptian empire, 757
fugitives, 762
garrisons, 764
gifts, 766
great powers, 755–758
Hittite empire, 756
hostages, 764
hostile relations, 768–769
international law, 753–773
international system, 754–759
language, 765–766
marriage, 768
messenger, 766, 767
peaceful relations, 765–768
salutation, 766
sanctions, 764
sources of international law, 753–754
states, 758–759
trade, 767–768
treaties, 753, 759–764
tribes, 759
tribute, 762
vassal kingdoms. See Vassal
kingdomswar, 769
Middle Bronze Age, 745–752
Assyrian commercial treaties, 749
customary international law,
750–751
international relations, 746–747
international system, 745–747
sources of international law, 745
treaties, 747–750
second millennium, 745–773
early period, 745–752. See also
this heading: Late Bronze Age
fifteenth through thirteenth
centuries, 753–773. See also this
heading: Late Bronze Age
third millennium, 241–251
customary international law,
249–250
international system, 242–244
sources of law, 241–242
treaties, 244–249
International relations
first millennium, 1053
second millennium
Late Bronze Age, 754–759
Middle Bronze Age, 745–747
International treaties. See Treaties
Interrogation of parties. See
Examination of parties in litigation
Intestate succession, 57–58
Egypt Demotic Law, 840
Emar, 676–677
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 542
Neo-Babylonian Period, 939
Nuzi, 599, 600
Ugarit, 730
Investigators, court
Egypt New Kingdom, 309
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 921
Irikagina. See Edicts, subheading:
Mesopotamia
Ironic punishment, 74–75
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 553
Irrigation rights. See Servitudes
Isin II kings. See Mesopotamia,
subheading: Middle Babylonian Period
Israel, 975–1046
adultery, 985, 997, 1010, 1034
alienation, 1015–1016
“approaching God,” 996–997
birth, 1014–1015 1099
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