Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS

Chappaqua, NY

Hittite Empire

Hattusas

Hattusas: Capital of the Hittites

Hattusas – Lion’s Gate

Hittite Chariots & Warriors

Hittite Writing

A Balance of Power: 1200 B. C. E.

The Battle of Kadesh

Treaty of Kadesh

Ramses II at Kadesh

Phoenician Sea Routes

A Phoenician Bireme Ship

The “Royal Purple” Dye

Phoenician City of Byblos:

“Home of the Alphabet”

Phoenician Alphabet

Carthage: Phoenicia’s Mightiest Colony

The Assyrian Empire

Assyrian Military Power

Assyrian soldiers carrying away the enemy’s

gods.

Jewish Captives: 8c BCE

Babylon under the Chaldeans

Nebuchadnezzar II’s Babylon

Ishtar Gate

Hanging Gardensof Babylon?

Israelites in Captivity

Alexander the Great & the Hellenization of the Near

East

The Great Library at Alexandria.

Egypt