Question

Example civilizations to research: City-States of Ancient Greece | Han Dynasty China Byzantine Empire | Renaissance Italy | Ancient India Example Explore the origins of diplomacy in historical civilizations. How different was it than diplomacy today?

Answer 1

Some of the earliest known diplomatic records are the Amarna letters written between the pharaohs of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and the Amurru rulers of Canaan during the 14th century BC. Following the [Battle of Kadesh] in c. 1274 BC during the Nineteenth dynasty, the pharaoh of Egypt and the ruler of the Hittite Empire created one of the first known international peace treaties which survives in stone tablet fragments, now generally called the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty