<Li> Canaan: Ugarit, Kadesh, Megiddo, Kingdom of Israel </Li> <Li> The Hittite Empire was founded some time after 2000 BC, and existed as a major power, dominating Asia Minor and the Levant until 1200 BC, when it was first overrun by the Phrygians, and then appropriated by Assyria . </Li> <P> The Hurrians lived in northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC . They probably originated in the Caucasus and entered from the north, but this is not certain . Their known homeland was centred on Subartu, the Khabur River valley, and later they established themselves as rulers of small kingdoms throughout northern Mesopotamia and Syria . The largest and most influential Hurrian nation was the kingdom of Mitanni . The Hurrians played a substantial part in the History of the Hittites . </P> <P> Ishuwa was an ancient kingdom in Anatolia . The name is first attested in the second millennium BC, and is also spelled Išuwa . In the classical period, the land was a part of Armenia . Ishuwa was one of the places where agriculture developed very early on in the Neolithic . Urban centres emerged in the upper Euphrates river valley around 3500 BC . The first states followed in the third millennium BC . The name Ishuwa is not known until the literate period of the second millennium BC . Few literate sources from within Ishuwa have been discovered and the primary source material comes from Hittite texts . To the west of Ishuwa lay the kingdom of the Hittites, and this nation was an untrustworthy neighbour . The Hittite king Hattusili I (c. 1600 BC) is reported to have marched his army across the Euphrates river and destroyed the cities there . This corresponds well with burnt destruction layers discovered by archaeologists at town sites in Ishuwa of roughly the same date . After the end of the Hittite empire in the early 12th century BC a new state emerged in Ishuwa . The city of Malatya became the centre of one of the so - called Neo-Hittite kingdom . The movement of nomadic people may have weakened the kingdom of Malatya before the final Assyrian invasion . The decline of the settlements and culture in Ishuwa from the 7th century BC until the Roman period was probably caused by this movement of people . The Armenians later settled in the area since they were natives of the Armenian Plateau and related to the earlier inhabitants of Ishuwa . </P>

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