The peninsula of Anatolia lay on the commercial land routes to Europe from Asia as well as the sea route from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Records from the 19th century BCE attest to the existence of an Assyrian merchant colony at Kanesh in Cappadocia (now in modern Turkey).
Hormones. Hormones. chemical substances having a specific regulatory effect on the activity of a certain organ or organs. The term was originally applied to substances secreted by various endocrine glands and transported in the bloodstream to the target organs.
Hormones are chemical signals that affect the behavior of other glands or tissues. Hormones influence the metabolism of cells, the growth and development of body parts, and homeostasis. Endocrine glands are ductless; they secrete their hormones into tissue fluid.