. The war and the Bagdad railway. es Valley and Asia Minor is of the greatestvalue in illustration of trade routes that must havebeen established through the heart of Asia Minorat this early period. Trade and war are close bed-fellows in antiquity, as they are in modern in this instance must have been incidental tothe garrison established by Babylonian rulers at astrategic point far north, to ward off an advanceof Hittites across the mountain passes of the Anti-Taurus and the Amanus ranges in the direction ofthe Euphrates Valley—precisely the menace thatoverwhelmed the Euphrates Val
. The war and the Bagdad railway. es Valley and Asia Minor is of the greatestvalue in illustration of trade routes that must havebeen established through the heart of Asia Minorat this early period. Trade and war are close bed-fellows in antiquity, as they are in modern in this instance must have been incidental tothe garrison established by Babylonian rulers at astrategic point far north, to ward off an advanceof Hittites across the mountain passes of the Anti-Taurus and the Amanus ranges in the direction ofthe Euphrates Valley—precisely the menace thatoverwhelmed the Euphrates Valley some centurieslater. The Euphrates Valley could not be held with-out the Hinterland, which in itself is the continuationof the Fertile Crescent that starts at the PersianGulf and stretches in a semi-circle around a desertregion to the Mediterranean. We accordingly finda great conqueror like Sargon I (c. 2700 ), underwhom the Akkadians (or Semites) gain their first defi-nite triumph over the Sumerians, leading his armies. AN ANCIENT HITTITE AND HISMODERN ARMENIAN DESCENDANT
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