The populations of the fatherland of Abraham : a short account of the populations which came into contact with the Jews, and used the Cuneiform system of writing / by G. Bertin.

  • Bertin, Georges, 1848-1891.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The populations of the fatherland of Abraham : a short account of the populations which came into contact with the Jews, and used the Cuneiform system of writing / by G. Bertin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Egyptians a spirit of conquest, and from that time Egyptian warriors periodically over- ran Western Asia. The Hittites were the greatest sufferers, in vain they called to arms all the populations around them, Hittite or otherwise—even-those of Asia Minor, they could not resist the well drilled troops of the Pharoahs. Soon after the Egyptian conquest of Syria, a new power rose in the East, the Assyrian Empire. Henceforth the Hittites, with all the rest of Syria, were incessantly trampled upon by the one or the other, now paying tribute to the King of Egypt, now accepting the supremacy of Nineveh; now calling the help of the Egyptian armies against the Assyrians, now fighting in the ranks of the Ninevites. It is only when the temporary decay or exhaustion of the two powerful Empires give some years of respite to Western Asia, that small kingdoms can develop and shine for a while like that of Jerusalem or Damascus. During the second Ninevite Empire the fate of the Hittites was sealed ; they made a gallant resistance, but when finally crushed they were almost annihilated. Their name still remained for a while, but the real Hittite population had disappeared, to be replaced by more or less pure Semites.