The Hittite Kingdom of Asua

A number of states had emerged and coalesced into what we can describe as a confederation, not totally unlike the organizations of early dynastic suma. It was 22 of these states that were collectively known as asua, which may have been where the greeks originally formed the name asia to describe all the lands to the east. The hittite king tadhalia moved into asua and defeated it into submission in 13 forty four b c e. If this was the first major conquest of the new hittite kingdom, then this may have sent a message out to the other neighbors that they would need to prepare for potential invasion. Tension was mounting between the two expanding