Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris Hasler.

And you're listening to volume 2, The Ancient World. This is episode 5, the Hittites. Oh, So let's have a recap before we venture into the story of the Hittites.

The ancient era of Mesopotamia was ushered in at the end of the Jemdet Naza period in around 2,900 B.C.

This is where we entered the early dynastic period of Mesopotamia. where the

individual city states were represented by a king and a deity who would have temples built within the city for the deities.

Sumer as a region would unite and one of the city states and their king would become a supreme ruler over the city states.

The supreme city state or Capital City would change according to which King was the most powerful.

While this was going on, Semitic peoples would be settling in the city

states further up the Euphrates, centered on a city called Akad and these people which we call the Acadians

conquered the Sumerians in 2334 B.C.E.

The Acadians rule would last until the Gooty people of the Zagros Mountains would run the Acadians out of Zuma during the 22nd century B.C.

this is where the city state of ore would return to its former glory and assume control of Sumer and prevent the

nomadic outsiders from completely taking over the region. The third dynasty of ore would remain the supreme power

in Sumer for the next hundred years but the nomads would return.

Amorites would suppress the Ord dynasty from the West,

while the Elamites from the East would conquer the city of ore in around 2004 B.C. ending the Third Dynasty.

City states would compete for supremacy in Sumer over the course of the next 200 years.

Initially, Essin would be the most powerful, before Larsa would bring awe into its fear of influence.

Ultimately though it would be Babylon that would become the most powerful.

Under its King Hammurabe it would have influence over the whole of

Mesopotamia. It was the Hittite King Mercily who would be responsible for the fall of the first Babylonian

dynasty when he ventured all the way down from Anatolia to sack Babylon in 1595 b c.

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