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Synopsis: In the mid-11th century BC, the Hittite kingdoms of northern Syria are joined by others\u2013 in the Philistine pentapolis, the Amuq plain and the region of Classical Cilicia \u2013 with ties to the former Mycenaean Greeks.\xa0 The Phoenician cities of the Levantine coast begin to step from the shadow of post-Collapse Egypt.\n\n\n\n\u201cI am really Azatiwada,\n\n\n\nMan of my Sun, the servant of Thunder God,\n\n\n\nRendered superior by Awariku, and the ruler of Adanawa,\n\n\n\nThunder God rendered me Mother and Father of Adanawa city, and\n\n\n\nI am the one, who developed Adanawa city,\n\n\n\nAnd I expanded Adanawa country, both westward and eastward,\n\n\n\nAnd during my reign, I made Adanawa city taste prosperity, satiety and comfort, and I filled the grain warehouses,\n\n\n\nI added horse to horse, shield to shield, army to army, everything for Thunder God and the deities\u2026\u201d\n\n\n\nThe Karatepe Bilingual\n\n\n\nMap of the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean:\n\n\n\nhttps://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/LBA_Hittite_Map.jpg\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices