EBOOK World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms:A Political and Military History

In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a        series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. In the subsequent        Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern        Syria, which are generally known today as the 'Neo-Hittite kingdoms'. Bryce's volume        gives an account of the military and political history of these kingdoms, moving        beyond the Neo-Hittites themselves to the broader Near Eastern worldand the states        which dominated it during the Iron Age.Divided into three sections, The World of        Neo-Hittite Kingdoms looks at the last decades of the empire and the features of        these kingdoms and their subsequent treatment under their Anatolian successors.          Through a closer look at the individual Neo-Hittite kingdoms and their rulers and a        comparison with the contemporary Aramaean states and the other kingdoms of the age -        notably the Neo-Assyrian empire - it concludes with a historical synthesis of the        Neo-Hittites when the last kingdomwas absorbed into the Assyrian provincial        administration.