Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-08-09
ar Z1zE HYz7T CIHIYL III
HOCH FOHZREeS 1T SOGH4Z-HEW

lished himself at Kadesh, near tho
modern HONS. There the young
Rameses II. attacked him. and foucht
the battle immortalized by the en-
craving OF a court poets encomiastic
narrative on wall at Karnak. Ram
eses seems To have prevailed so far
mat he stopped any further advance
OF the Haiti towards his own borders:
but when he made n treaty of peace
and dalliance with Mutallu's successor.
Hattusil H. (whorl he called Knit
asar). Its terms imply recognition of
me other party's power as equal to
MS own. Part of Hattusils CORE
spondence has come to light at Bog
haz-Keui. 1t includes a precis of the
provisions OF this very treaty, and
documents which show that the HAITI
KING was still overload in Mesopo-
tamia and able to deal on footing of
secure independence with Babylon.
These records bring the history to
about 1850 b. C. We know something
or two more kings of Boghaz-Keui.
making eight in all The last
reigned on the eve of that great re-
vival on the Tigris, which would VI!
timately bring Assyria down to the
Mediterranean, and in his time the
HAITI empire was evidently decaying;
for there were kings in Syria. where
the monarch ON Boghaz-Keui had
once ruled alone. To this Syrian
part of the empire we know what
happened at the last. II was broken
up by the power of Nineveh in the
eighth century b. G. But how the
empire dwindled and came to an end
In Asia Minor we can only guess
Assyrfan pressure was felt even there,
for at least one Ninevite king raided
far across Taurus. From the oppo-
site side, the north, Il wild people, tho
Musk. swept through the peninsula
and finally settled down In I'nfygta,
probably freeing it, with all to west.
ward. from the CappadCcian rule, and
certainly establishing monarchy
whose holders, under the names Cor
dias and Midas, loom large in early
Greek legend. The Greeks, finding
the coasts undefended which the Gre
tans OF Minos had not been able TO
conquer. came over and colonized
them. Lydia rose last on the ruins OF
Phygia. and by this time the power
OF BobhaZ-Keui was only a name To
Judge from the remains of the city
so far uncovered. 1t had enjoyed a sec
ond spring at some period. perhaps
about 1000 b. c.; but this must have
been short. Greek literature makes
only one doubtful allusion to it in the
sixth century. and none at all to It's
former greatness. Yet, all forgotten
as 1t was by the people in whose
hands In chief the transmission Of
early history was to lie. the HAITI EN-.
pire had not existed in vain even for
the development of that same people.
Occupying for several centuries the
most vital part of West Asia, through
which all the land routes between
east and west must pass, the HAITI
had been the main agents through
whom the civilizing influences of tho
east had passed. Their art awakened
art In Phrygia and Lydia, and left it's
mark on the first Greek handiwork In
Ionia. From their Photographic sys
tenn OF writing were derived many al
phabetic characters still used in Hell
lenised parts Of South and West Asia
Minor. In classical times. Their re-
lIgion was the type religion OF Asia
Minor and ultimately responsible for
those so-called "Anatolian" features
which spread to Greece and through
Greece to Rome aad the west Tn.
compromprehended traditions and
memories of their society inspired
several Greek stories, notably that OF
the Amazons, one Of whom-perhapa
the divine queen of them all--is carved
on gate post at Boghaz Keul itself
As in these latter years Crete has
shown us much foundation in fact
there was for some of the strangest
myths OF Hellas. so, in a less degree.
has Boghaz-Keui II has much more
yet to tell us, for not its tenth part
has been excavated; and nothing is
TO be desired more earnestly than that
its exploration should be resumed.
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