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whose position compelled them to be conquerors. South of them lay the metal-bearing areas of Cilicia; between these were the ports and cities of Syro-Phoenicia where the merchants of Babylonia and Assyria had established trading routes; and east and south was the Euphrates, with its fertile valley and prosperous towns.

Possession of these areas could make the Hittites more powerful and gradually they conquered Cappadocia and Carchemish on the Euphrates. In 1926 B.C. the Hittites,

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