With a POD anywhere in the second millennium how do you get a Levantine empire say a Davidic Empire as depicted in the Bible a Canaanite confederation or perhaps an empire ruled by the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, and so forth or any based off of any other group that existed in the region. And by empire I mean a power player as in can beat the Assyrians and whip the Egyptians. Oh and by the way borders must be from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border and the Nile if your ambitious.