Hittites And Their Ascent To Power
Armando Perez-Segura
04922 Hittites
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The Hittites and Their Ascent to Power.
It has been a long way since the days when few people knew of the Hittites. The few who did know about the Hittites were either scholars or Bible readers. Even though they conquered Babylon and put the Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses to flight, nothing was known of them a century ago except their name (Lehman.9). In fact, to this day we still don't know where exactly the Hittites came from. What we do know is that before the end of the third millennium, there were three known groups of people in Anatolia who spoke the Indo-European language. These were the Luwians to the west, Palaians in the north, and in central or eastern Anatolia the speakers of a language called Nesite (Bryce.10).
But even the origins of these Indo-Europeans are disputed. In fact, a good percentage of Hittite history is still up for debate. Some say that there are indications of an Indo-European invasion, such as the......
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