Šuppiluliuma I
Hittite king
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A Hittite king who turned a battered empire into the dominant power of the Late Bronze Age Near East, then watched his own captives bring home a plague that would outlast his reign.
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Šuppiluliuma distinguished himself as a military commander before he ever took the throne, defending and reclaiming Hittite lands after a wave of foreign attacks. Once king around 1350 BC, he pressed the advantage: victories over Mittani, the major rival kingdom in Upper Mesopotamia, brought a string of petty Syrian kingdoms under Hittite control and let him install his younger sons as viceroys at Aleppo and Carchemish. Mittani itself became a Hittite dependency. Relations with Egypt swung between peace and tension until the Zannanza Affair—Egypt's widowed queen asked for a Hittite prince to m…
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