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- They had many back and fourth battles with Egypt that lasted from 500-1100 B.C.
- They were some of the first to use Iron for weapons and such.
-They had a good Military.
- They captured a lot of land.
- There are still Hittites alive today in the world.
- Agrarian/ nationalistic culture
- Women had more importance than the usual at this epoch, but they were still traited as objects.
- Slavery was severe, power of life and death.
- Had a massive amount of silver which they used as currency as well as crops and cattle
- Their primary activity was trading amongst themselves and other civilizations --- spreading of culture
Self-actualization
- Had many gods as they constantly indoctrenated new beliefs and gods into their religion as they conquered other people. Antropomorphic.
- Believed in the after life ( i.e. Dark Earth, kuntarra house).
- Examples:
- Hannahanna --- Mother of all gods
- The Conquerer (Hurrian's Teshub, Taru, Luwains Tarhun) --- most powerful god
- Telepinus (the noble god) --- God of agriculture and fertility
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- War like people, known by their ferocity.
- Capital: Hatti
- Feared by opposing nations during their reign.
- Often referred as barbarians
- Had one of the neolithic ages most powerful army.
-Battled the egiptians twice and survived.
- Sacked Babylon and brought their empire to its knees.
- Their empire stretched from Mesopotamia to Syria -and Palestine.
-Invented iron.
- Hittites may have spoken a language from the Indo-European language family
- Tablets were excavated from the ruins of Hattusa
- In 1906 about 10000 clay tablets script were recovered
- The language was deciphered about 10 years after it was discovered
- Few capital crimes
- Paying fines
-They had about 200 laws
-More humane punishment than hammurabi code
- Absolute monarchy, hierarchical system
- Feudalism: the king divided his land among his family.
- Queen delt with most of the political discussions
- The royal family had 31 generations
2112 B.C.E~ Gutian Invasion
2200 B.C.E~ Amorites
1595 B.C.E~ Hittites sack Babylon
1200 B.C.E~ Arameans
1159 B.C.E~ Elamite Invasion
750 B.C.E~ Chaldean Invasion
613 B.C.E~ Medes