A Hittite’s Tale – How to Build a Purpose Driven Empire

Hittites, Hittite History, Nesili. Anatolia, Ancient History, Hattusili, Mursili, Hattusa
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In central Anatolia, an Indo-European people emerged among chaos and civil war. These people would create a civilization that would have a lasting effect on all of the civilizations in the region, and in the West, to follow.
This civilization would create a language that, so far, is the oldest known example of the family of languages that would eventually gives us the same language I am using in this presentation, English. That family of languages is known as the Indo-European family.
For me, these rugged, practical people were remarkably similar to the early Romans. Their rise to power could be seen to be similar to the Roman rise to power. Both civilizations began as second-class citizens, with the Romans playing second fiddle to their Etruscan masters. Both civilization emerged among constant struggles for survival, with the Romans emerging from wars with other Latin tribes, the Sabines, and the Etruscans.
Both civilizations learned early on the value of assimilating other cultures, with the Romans assimilating Etruscan and Greek cultures. Both civilizations developed a pragmatic character built upon a, perhaps well-founded paranoia for survival. Both civilizations perfected the art of war. Both civilizations were urban planners, who designed cities with purpose and function.
But the Romans, unlike the civilization we’re going to cover here, owed some of their cultural heritage to this civilization, even though, by the time the Romans rose to power, the name of this civilization had already been lost.
References:
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/hittite.htm
https://www.ancient.eu/hittite/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hittite_kings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolian_hieroglyphs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHYn4IDi19A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CpAQjHrp28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7U-b2rdtwQ
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