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Chapter 3 The Mediterranean and the Middle East 2000-500 B.C.E. 1 Cosmopolitan Middle East 1700-1100 B.C.E. (Western Asia) Southern Portion: Kassites ruled Babylonia. They did not pursue territorial conquest. Assyrians Assyrian origin in the Northern Tigris Area 3 Assyrians Traded Tin and Silver Hittites Had their capital in Anatolia Hittites Used the Horse Drawn Chariot Hittites Had access to important copper, silver, and iron deposits During the second millennium b.c.e. Mesopotamian political and cultural concepts spread across much of western Asia. New Kingdom Egypt New Kingdom period was preceded by the decline of the Middle Kingdom and by the subsequent period of rule by the non-Egyptian Hyksos Hyksos Plot to crush Egypt