Hittites

from the previous capital at Thebes. Pi-Ramesses was closer to the Egyptian servant states in Asia and to the border with the Hittite empire. Intelligence and ambassadors would reach the Pharaoh much more rapidly and have a greater impact on his decision. The main corps of the army was also established in the city and could quickly deploy to deal with the storming of the Hittites clans or Shasu nomads from the Jordan…

To ensure the restoration and refocus of the traditional gods to be continued and reduce the power of the Cult of Amun, the Egyptian pharaohs within the late 18th and early 19th dynasty, Horemheb, Ramesses II, Seti I and Ramesses II, re-established the return and worship of the traditional gods for a political purpose, ensuring control of the Egyptian empire. In the effort to remove all previous mentions of the Aten, the following pharaoh’s destroyed all mentions of Akhenaten to the pharaohs…

The Book of Deuteronomy sustains an integral position amongst the books of the Bible. It is the final book of the Pentateuch and befittingly links these opening books to the latter historical and prophetic books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. Not only is Deuteronomy key in its literary placement, but it is also pivotal if one is to understand the theology in the New Testament; especially thoughts regarding the ideology of love. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to contemporize…

urban culture, the Sumerians, 6,000 years ago. The Sumerians’ Egyptian rivals took advantage of the annual flooding of the Nile for their regular harvest, later exporting a large portion of their produce to the Roman Empire. Some time later, the Hittites settled in the golden, rolling hills of Anatolia (modern Turkey) and the Phoenicians of the eastern Mediterranean loaded olive oil and spices into their merchant ships to trade throughout the Mediterranean.…

The earliest form of music that came into our world was called the Drum-Based Percussion instrument (Hollis). These instruments of rocks and sticks were used in religious ceremonies that were known as representations of animals (Hollis). It is known that by 4000 BCE the Egyptians created the Harps and Flutes, and also by 3500 BCE instruments called Lyres and Doubled-Reeded Clarinets has been founded and created (Hollis). Almost all of the Indians and Africans had been using some of these…

compared Mesopotamian Law to Israel’s code of laws, the law being the backbone of society in both civilizations. Mesopotamian Law appealed to and influenced other civilizations like the Assyrians and Hittites to create their own similar laws despite their many ethnic and cultural differences. The Hittites composed their own legal code that reflected Mesopotamian influence while their political rival Assyria was thoroughly babylonianized ironically. It is apparent here that despite the underlying…

Egypt and Mesopotamia are both considered the “cradles of Western civilization”. These two civilizations helped shape Western and European cultures, though Egypt has slightly a lesser impact than Mesopotamia, which is considered the true origin of Western civilization. These influences have helped set what historians consider “the West”, both past and present, apart from other civilizations around the world. Though Egypt and Mesopotamia both had a profound impact and seem very similar, these two…

two main languages written in Cuneiform, there are more of course, but both of those are much more prevalent. There were about 15 different languages written in Cuneiform, some of them are; Eastern Semitic, Assyrian, Babylonian, Elamite, Eblaite, Hittite, Hurrian, Utartian, Ugaritic, and Old Persian. Cuneiform writing was used to keep record of things like, stories, personal letters, temple activities, myths, business, and trade. One would wonder how they decided to store these thousands of…

Queen Ankhesenamun to be ruler. Horemheb killed Tut by hitting him unconscious and cutting his heart out. Evidence on the young boy’s corpse show that a blow to the back of the head occurred and his heart missing. Ankhesenamun wrote a letter to the Hittite King asking for a husband, but the prince sent was murdered. Horemheb obviously did this to benefit from war, and marry Ankhesenamun. But, unfortunately…

Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.” [Brought you out of Ur]… Then God gave the land to the Israelites: Exodus 3:7 "So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."' [Brought you out of Egypt]… Then they lost the land when carried off to Babylon, only to be restored to them by Cyrus the Great…