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The Hittites And The Neo-Babylonians
The four near eastern groups that had established themselves in the near East was The Hittites, The Assyrians, The Second Assyrian Empire, and The Neo-Babylonians. The Hittites had gone and decided to take the Mesopotamian writing and many ideas of Mesopotamian culture. The Hittites had discovered how to melt iron that was able to make them weapons and tools for their army. The way that the Hittites did their government was different than how Mesopotamia had done it, the kings didn’t even claim to be chosen representatives and had little power, it was all decided by a council of nobles. The Hittites civilization had come to an end in 1200 B.C.E. due to attacks and the war. The reason is because they got in to a heated argument with the Egyptian empire when they had tried to expand. Unlike the Hittites, the Assyrians spoke in a language closely related to Babylonian. Assyrian culture was heavily influenced by …show more content…
Soon it became too big to handle all of the Second Assyrian Empire, so then the Meds and Babylonians attacked the Empire and they never recovered. Now with the last empire we plan on talking about was the Neo-Babylonians, their way of governing was they didn’t usually conquest but because of Nebuchadnezzar made it in one of the greatest cities. Babylon became a center of world trade that linked many countries like Egypt, India, Iran, and Syria-Palestine by land and sea. This empire ended quicker unlike the others because it was kept being pass down to random men in rapid succession. The last king made his people honor the Moon-god above all the other gods. He also let dishonorable people to use huge areas of temple land for profit. The people of Babylonia had actually welcomed the Persian conquest that took over the Neo-Babylonian

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