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>the mines in ancient Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age were under the control of the Hittites, an imperial global power of great threat to Ramses the Great o
by s3000 4y ago
>the mines in ancient Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age were under the control of the Hittites, an imperial global power of great threat to Ramses the Great of Egypt
What's the reason to call the Hittites a great threat to Ramses? They had the first known peace treaty [1] with Egypt which should lead to the opposite reputation.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Hittite_peace_treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Hittite_peace...
- humantorso 4y agoYou usually don't sign peace treaties with allies?
- bandrami 4y agoYou don't sign peace treaties with people who aren't threats
- s3000 4y agoWhy would you sign a peace treaty if it doesn't turn a threat into something else?
- rmah 4y agoAm I the only one who finds it odd to describe an empire that covered turkey and the levant (syria/northern iraq) as "global"? To answer your question though, the hittites and egypt were fighting over the western levant. Areas of what is now Lebanon and NW Syria.