Am 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,

Am 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.