The Canaanites continue to prosper in their …
Years: 1341BCE - 1198BCE
The Canaanites continue to prosper in their cities great and small but this is a time of much political unrest.
The Hittites are invading Syria; nomads from the desert support the invasion, and many of the local chiefs are ready to seize the opportunity to throw off the Egyptian yoke.
Shechem, a prosperous capital of the fertile and populous northern highlands In the hill country of central Palestine, becomes the site of the cult of the Canaanite god Ba'al-Berit, Lord of the Covenant.
Locations
Groups
- Canaanite culture, ancient
- Hapiru, or Habiru
- Egypt (Ancient), New Kingdom of
- Hittites (Hittite Empire), (New) Kingdom of the
