Prehistory of Anatolia the collapse of the Bronze Age the empire disintegrated into several independent Syro-Hittite (Neo-Hittite) city-states, some of which survived until as late as the 8th century BC. In the West, Greeks were arriving on the Anatolian coast, and the Kaskas along the northern Black Sea coast. Eventually Hattusha itself was destroyed around 1200 BC and the age of Empires shifted to that of regional states as the Bronze Age transitioned into the Iron Age. There is very little information about early Mycenaean presence in Anatolia. Milet was clearly a center of Mycenaean presence in Asia Minor in the period c.
Ariarathes I of Cappadocia conquering the Achaemenid Empire and installed a governor there (though two different names of this governor are given). Nevertheless, during the time Alexander was ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, Ariarathes had managed to assume power as the first king of Cappadocians and even expanded the kingdom by subduing Cataonia. After the death of Alexander in 323 BC, the Macedonian general and regent Perdiccas appointed Eumenes as governor of Cappadocia; but when Ariarathes refused to submit to Eumenes, Perdiccas made war upon him. Ariarathes was defeated, taken prisoner and crucified, together with many of his relations, in 322 BC. Eumenes then