HIST 106 Lecture 8: Lecture Notes - The Hittites
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Old kingdom (1650-1500 bc) anarchy hittite empire (1450-1200) Anatolia was a collection of small, independent city states (2000-1800) Seemed to be a bunch of mini-empires that controlled other city states. Old assyrians called these city-states matum, which means country. Referred to the rulers of the city-states as princes, kings, great princes and kings. Around 1750, old assyria stopped trading with anatolia and began to trade with old. Anitta text- paints a picture of a war between anatolia city-state war. Thought that was a motive for old assyria"s withdraw from trade. Hittites didn"t keep much literature besides the anitta text. Most likely assimilated from old assyrian cuneiform. North was ruled from hatussa and south was ruled from kanesh. Found 10,000 documents in katussa and 25,000 from kanesh, a neighboring city. Hyksos used them next to take control of egypt and then egypt used them kick out the hyksos. Mursilis (1556-1526) - raided cities down the mesopotamian river vally.
