Show When the Hittites Ruled the World Word w WAY Y hack 1400 years yearn yean before the beginning of o tho rho Christian Ual ern cm long I J before Moses learned tho thus of the Egyptian 1 priesthood there oc ac occurred occurred n period of ot about SOO 00 years erk when those these dim inures In prehistoric times dominated d the titled ruled or rather the diplomacy aud and the tho civilization of oC the tho then civilized world which after atter all Included only Egypt India Syria Assyria and a 11 few fow e sections ot of Asia Minor border bordering borte bordering ing In on ml the tho Caspian Sea 3 und mind Ind the Mediterranean The Th HUltet are known to tho the average reader merely from the tho name appearing In the books of oC Moses IMes tho the latter loUer two of ot these books But this was S hundreds hundred of oC years after the tho lost their real power as nc 14 world rulers and hail had become I weak and scattered tribes trl Tho The hour of ot I history wherein the tho were tho the world power Is dim and ond Indeed I yet eL Ibis IhU pogo page of ot the story etor ot of the tho human nice race has been greatly cleared 1 up lp by b the discoveries of ot Dr lingo Hugo the tho famous archaeologist t of o Berlin at I Kent Keut In Asia sla Minor lnor Hero have 1 been boen located tho the stupendous ruins of o thin an on ancient ancient capital of nC the tho empire the tho city cit of ot Her nert Dr dis discovered dil discovered covered vast tt tablets of ot burnt clay on 00 which cuneiform Inscriptions of ot the most rare ran rl and nod archaeological wore were carved coned years Crl ago o o orho The Tho most moil mo t Important of ot these theo cuneiform Inscriptions Is IB devoted to 10 a n great rot state treaty between a n Pharaoh of Egypt 1 Jp ot of the thus eighteenth dynasty and tho the emperor of the tho Hittites who seems ems to have ruled over our u confederation of ot tribes tribe largely larely lare ro 1 lu political construction tho divisions of ot tho the Jews Jewl into tribes under Solomon Soloman II 1 IL Pharaoh of o Egypt I 1 nod and Shin 1 3 emperor of ot the i r i d nJ r t drew up op this treaty after the celebrated bottle battle of oC Kadesh wherein the to nI t and nud the Egyptians Eop fought nearly n drawn ulc battle At this the had for tor years or thereabout thereabouts been n the domi daml dominating noting factor In 10 ho UI diplomatic exchanges MUnS between the tho few fow to really big biff bl nations of or orth oftie tie th known world But Dut after oCter tho the battle of at Kadesh had hat shown the that the Egyptians were becoming n great grent military power tho the two kingdoms dor formed an no offensive and nOI defensive alliance with provisions for tor extradition especially of ot politIcal of offenders 0 offenders fenders fende This action of at the tho dominating was wan WO brought brou h about by h growing dread dr ul of oC tho the newly formed forme anti rapidly power of ot the Assyrian Assy u empire which n a few te hundred bundred years yearn later Inter conquered Babylon and nud the tho tl bet best section I of Pr the world of or partial pArtin I civilization The lle making of at this treaty trent which Is Ie the tho earliest known treaty ever eer mode made by I man mau mankind mal kind which leaves leaven us UI a I record of historical value occupied three months and nud In I It t Egypt the Ule confederation and the tb power of oC all bound themselves to tight light against tho the swiftly rising power pow r ruC of uC tho ho Assyrian s Tho Biblical references referenced of or the Bible naturally enough did not reveal tho the h lilt lUt t of oC ex extreme c tiles as a n world power or even cen UNno al local loel Importance for the tho early erl struggles of oC the tho Jews under Joshua and other Jewish heroes 8 occurred long g n after under nailer tho the the tho had disappeared surging power po er of ot tho ho Assyrian monarchy which under overcame the Jews and sacked Jerusalem This occurred In tho the period of ot tho be Prophet Daniel who saw the Modes nod Persians overthrow the tho Assyrians As Just JURt tie 16 hen blO of years c nr before the Assyrian over oc overcame came camo the In 10 J R t 0 |