. The war and the Bagdad railway. AN ANCIENT HITTITE AND HISMODERN ARMENIAN DESCENDANT. MONOLITH OF A HITTITE RULER WITH INSCRIPTION(METROPOLITAN MUSEUM) THE STORY OP ASIA MINOR 41 northward and obtaining a firm hold to the shores ofthe Mediterranean. Sargons predecessors were satis-fied with being kings of Sumer and Akkad/ com-prising the Euphrates Valley, but he and his suc-cessors aspire to the grandiloquent title of Kingof the Four Regions. It was, however, militarynecessity rather than an original greed of conquestthat led these early rulers to become conquerors andto convert their empire
. The war and the Bagdad railway. AN ANCIENT HITTITE AND HISMODERN ARMENIAN DESCENDANT. MONOLITH OF A HITTITE RULER WITH INSCRIPTION(METROPOLITAN MUSEUM) THE STORY OP ASIA MINOR 41 northward and obtaining a firm hold to the shores ofthe Mediterranean. Sargons predecessors were satis-fied with being kings of Sumer and Akkad/ com-prising the Euphrates Valley, but he and his suc-cessors aspire to the grandiloquent title of Kingof the Four Regions. It was, however, militarynecessity rather than an original greed of conquestthat led these early rulers to become conquerors andto convert their empire into a military power. Under such conditions, the destiny of Babylonialay inevitably in the direction of becoming a strongmilitary state, with its chief aim to secure control ofas large a territory as possible to the north andnorthwest, so as to maintain itself against encroach-ments of Hittite groups from these directions. WhenBabylonia waxed strong, the Hittites were kept insuppression, when it grew weaker, we find the Hit-tites acquiring greater strength. A period of declineset
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