Western Civilization I / Unit 2 WC1 0111 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Bronze Age System and the Hittites
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The idea
From about three thousand to eleven hundred B.C.E., four regions traded and fought: Greece, Anatolia, Canaan with Mesopotamia, Egypt. Akkadian was the diplomatic language. The Hittites, from about seventeen hundred, adopted conquered peoples' gods rather than imposing theirs.
In practice
Kings called each other brother; a Hittite-Egyptian treaty split Syria from Canaan.
Where people slip
The Hittites may have carried Mesopotamian learning to Greece, the anchor says.
Your place on the trail
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