Empires dominate the known world while they rule but they come & go. Some are famous and seem to be of interest ( Egyptians ) and others completely forgotten ( The Hittites ).
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East.
The ancient Near East is considered the cradle of civilization. It was the first to practice intensive year-round agriculture, it gave the rest of the world the first writing system, invented the potter's wheel and then the vehicular- and mill wheel, created the first centralized governments, law codes and empires, as well as introducing social stratification, slavery and organized warfare, and it laid the foundation for the fields of astronomy and mathematics.
There were 4 great empires in ancient history that have some recorded histories in the "near East".
They were the Egyptians, ( Ancient Egypt sees a succession of thirty dynasties spanning three millennia, 2920 - 525 )
The Assyrians ( Assyrians trace their ancestry back to the Sumero-Akkadian civilisation that emerged in Mesopotamia circa 4000–3500 BC, )
The Babylonians ( Babylonia was an empire of ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic nation state and cultural region based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) 1894 - 1664 )
The Hittites The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who established an empire at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC - 1174. They were not re-discovered until the early 20th century.
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