The Hittites

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The Hittites
and their contemporaries in Asia Minor J. G. MACQUEEN
The Hittites were an Indo-European-speaking people who occupied a large part of present-day Turkey in the second half of the second millennium b.c. Evidence from Kiiltepe (Kanesh) and elsewhere in Anatolia suggests that they were already present in the area by the beginning of the millennium, but the date of their arrival, the route by which they came, and the way in which they superseded their Hattian j predecessors are all matters on which there is a considerable amount of uncertainty. By about 1650 the Hittites had established their capital at Boga2k6y (Hattusas) in central Turkey, and soon their influence began to be felt as far afield as northern Syria. In 1595 they captured Babylon, on the lower Euphrates, and this event marks their emergence as a great power in the Middle Eastern world. From then on they dealt on equal terms with Assyria, Babylon and Egypt until the destruction of their empire by the... Tovább

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The Hittites
and their contemporaries in Asia Minor J. G. MACQUEEN
The Hittites were an Indo-European-speaking people who occupied a large part of present-day Turkey in the second half of the second millennium b.c. Evidence from Kiiltepe (Kanesh) and elsewhere in Anatolia suggests that they were already present in the area by the beginning of the millennium, but the date of their arrival, the route by which they came, and the way in which they superseded their Hattian j predecessors are all matters on which there is a considerable amount of uncertainty. By about 1650 the Hittites had established their capital at Boga2k6y (Hattusas) in central Turkey, and soon their influence began to be felt as far afield as northern Syria. In 1595 they captured Babylon, on the lower Euphrates, and this event marks their emergence as a great power in the Middle Eastern world. From then on they dealt on equal terms with Assyria, Babylon and Egypt until the destruction of their empire by the mysterious "Sea ! j Peoples" about 1200.
( Mr Macqueen examines the textual and ; archaeological evidence for a reconstruction
of Hittite history and geography, and I suggests economic reasons which may
have provided the dynamics for the I internal organization and the imperial
expansion of the Hittite empire. He also i examines, within the context of his theme, I daily life in Late Bronze Age Anatolia,
warfare, politics and religion, I administration, literature, art and architecture. His survey covers the cultures of other Anatolian peoples who came into contact with the Hittites— notably the Arzawans, whose kingdom in western Turkey was for much of the period a formidable obstacle to Hittite

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