CLAS-110 Lecture 7: Civilization in the Near East - January 28 2016

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Assignment: find something that is ancient history in the news (within the last year or so). The dominant princes moved their capital city to hattusa(s). This becomes the center of the hittite empire: rocky, easily defended, has a reliable water source. Old kingdom (c. 1700-1499 bc: archenemies are the hurrian"s (, by the 1400 bc the hittites had gained all of the trade networks. New kingdom: mid- 14th century bc, hittites actually conquered mahtani and the hurrian"s and established a puppet ruler and used it as a buffer between them and the assyrians. They also conquered most of the territory in anatolia: battle of qadesh, 1275 bc. Treaty between egypt and the hittites written in cuneiform. Phoenicia: the coastline between the former hittite empire and the egyptian empire. Comes out by the 8th/9th/10th century bc as traders. They also establish colonies in north africa and in.

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