Ebla+-+Arameans

=Ebla - Arameans =
 * ===The Ebla - Arameans prospered from 2700-2154 BC.===
 * ===During the height of its power (c. 2600-2240BC), Ebla controlled northern Syria, Lebanon, and parts of northern Mesopotamia.===
 * ===Which is modern Iraq today.===
 * ===They were good at trade and diplomatic relations with states as far away as Egypt, Iran, and Sumer.===
 * ===The Ebla's prospertity came from agricultural in the rich plain of northern Syria.===
 * ===They use to grow barley, wheat, olives, figs, grapes, pomegranates, and had grown cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs.===
 * ===Also, a big support to Ebla's economy was there trade.===
 * ===Cloth, manufactured goods, and olive oil were its main exports.===
 * ===There main imports include gold, silver, copper, tin, precious stones, and sheep.===
 * ===Ebla was located in the main part of the trading routes so they became wealthy very fast.===
 * ===Ebla never had a unified empire; they were divided in independent kingdoms all across the Near East.===
 * ===One of the greatest cities in the their time was the ancient city of Ebla.===
 * ===It was an independent Syrian kingdom that exerted power from the northern mountains, to Sinai. This city was located 42 miles south of Aleppo, about half way between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates.===
 * ===This great city was found in 1975. There archaeologists found a royal palace and 17,000 clay tablets. Epigrapher Giovanni Pettinato found a Paleo-Canaanite language on the tablets that was older than Amorite, which was known to be the oldest Semitic language. Ebla conquered Mari, capital of Amurru, which spoke Amorite. Ebla was destroyed by a great king of the southern Mesopotamian kingdom of Akkad, Naram Sim, in 2300.===
 * ===It is thought that after this great city was destroyed the rest of the Ebla kingdoms fell apart and the people of them separated to join other nations of greater power===
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Ebla_ziggurat.jpg width="440" height="354"]][[image:http://www.homsonline.com/images/Ebla/Ebla_Tablet4.jpg width="388" height="265"]]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Ebla_ziggurat.jpg width="440" height="354"]][[image:http://www.homsonline.com/images/Ebla/Ebla_Tablet4.jpg width="388" height="265"]]