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Power carved in clay, borders drawn in fire.

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The Legacy of Suppiluliuma: Hittite Power and Influence—cuneiform tablets and royal decrees that chart a prince’s rise to an empire.

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They bind vassals by oath, parade victories in Syria, and echo the Egyptian queen’s desperate plea.

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Scribes wrote in Akkadian; on distant roads, early alphabetic scratches—Proto-Sinaitic—flickered to life.

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Together, these marks reveal how war, worship, and writing remade the Bronze Age.