HIST 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Tell Halaf, Karatepe, Kassites
10 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Reading notes, part 1: m-ancient near east pg. Three states dominated in the east in the late bronze age: assyria, Babylonia and elam; they continued to be important in the early first millennium, while a newcomer, urartu developed as an international force in the early first millennium. The babylonian king list a had kings" (cid:374)a(cid:373)es that re(cid:448)ealed different backgrounds; rarely did two men form the same family succeed each other: included kassites, elamites, babylonians and chaldeans; assyria became involved in 728. The main challenge to the kings of babylon was to control their territory. East was dominated by superpowers: assyria, babylonia, elam and. In the west, political fragmentation remained the norm with different groups who spoke multiple languages and varied traditions/ancestries. Political power increasingly shifted toward the arameans, until the. Assyrians conquered the region in the late eighth century (728 bc) The neo-hittite states used the anatolian hieroglyphs to write the.
