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Birth of the Iron Age

The Ancients

CHAPTER

Resilience and Transformation of Assyrians, Babylonians, and Hittites

The chapter explores the resilience and transformation of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite civilizations during periods of collapse, drought, famine, and challenges in the first millennium BC. It delves into how these civilizations continued their administration, religion, and monumental buildings despite hardships and highlights the decline of the Hittites and the survival of the neo-Hittites in North Syria.

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