World History › Section C · The ancient Near East › Topic C.1
From Old Babylon to the Medes
After Hammurabi, the Near East became a stage of rival empires — Hittites from Anatolia, Assyrians from the north, Babylonians and Medes — until war, diplomacy and a mysterious collapse remade the region in iron. This topic follows more than a thousand years of rise, ruin and borrowing.
In this topic
- The empire game and its players
- Old Babylon: rise and fall
- The Hittites of Anatolia
- The Late Bronze Age Collapse
- The Neo-Assyrian comeback
- Worked example: why Assyria fell
- Worked example: how diplomacy actually worked
- Assyrian society and the substitute king
- The Neo-Assyrian war machine
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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