Ancient Middle East

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Hittites

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Appeared around 1700BCE and dominated in 1200sBCE

first group to make use of iron weapons.

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Start

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From 1500BCE witnessed important civilizations

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Assyrians

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Worlds first true empire 911 612 BCE
Used cavalry.
Took I’ve most of ME including Egypt and Mesopotamia

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Babylonians

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Nebuchadnezzar is most famous. -Built hanging gardens of Babylon.
Also called Chaldeans
636 to 539 BCE

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Persians (550-331BCE)

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One if the Largest empires in world history.
Cyrus the great conquered Iran 550BCE
by Darius the Great the empire was from Tirkey to Libya to borders of India

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Persian governing

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Advanced postal system
Networks of roads
Single currency
Flexible government

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Persian religion

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Zoroastrianism

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Persians and Greeks

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Fought several wars.in 331BCE it fell to Alexander the Great.

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Phoenicians

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Settled on eastern coast of Mediterranean by 1400BCE
Advanced economy based on timber export and purple dye from shellfish.
Created Carthage.
World’s first alphabet.

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Lydians(600-500 BCE)

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Invented metal coinage