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== Headline text ==
== Middle Hittite Kingdom 1500-1450 B.C. ==
The Middle Kingdom years brought obscurity and decline. The Hittites had expanded into Syria because of the strategic trade routes that passed there, but in these years Syria was wrested from them. However, it appears that during these years, iron-making was begun amongst the Hittites. Some feel this may have been the first time in the postdiluvian world that a people used iron. The Hittites of this era raised horses, cattle, sheep, goats and bees, and manufactured cloth, shoes, pottery, and metal.<ref>Compton's, p. 180</ref>
== New Hittite Kingdom 1450-1294 ==
In 1450 Tudhaliyas I founded a new dynasty which brought the Hittites to the zenith of their power, followed by a period of decline. <ref>Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 13, Hittites, (Danbury, Connecticut,: Americana Corporation, 1978), p. 250.</ref>The Hittite state has been described as basically a military organization, which fits the Biblical picture of them as a warlike people and explains one of the reasons Israel feared them.<ref>Compton's, p. 180</ref>