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From what I have been reading (granted, it's been Wikipedia, mostly), our knowledge of the region of Canaan in the early Iron Age is pretty spotty. But, would it be possible for some kind of an empire to rise out of the area following the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire? Something that could perhaps dominate the Levant, or even Mesopotamia? If so, what would be a good PoD for this? I haven't been able to turn up anything in my preliminary research on the matter that we know for sure, as many of the accounts given in the Bible are hotly debated.
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