Hurrian Empire

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Article abstract: Military significance: The Hurrian Empire controlled a number of states in northwestern Mesopotamia, at times battling with the Egyptians and Hittites.

Already settled for centuries in the highlands of eastern Anatolia (later eastern Turkey), around Lake Van, by 2200 b.c.e. the Hurrians, speaking what was perhaps a distant relative of Northeast Caucasian languages, had established a series of minor states in northwestern Mesopotamia. Naram-Sin of Akkad subjugated these Hurrian states in the 2200’s b.c.e., although these states later assisted...

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