Similarities Between Assyrians And Hittites
The Hittites, an Indo-Europeans peaking people who arrived around 2000 B.C.E. In contrast to the Assyrians, the Hittites were conquerors and colonists who imposed themselves and their language on the peoples they vanquished. By 1700 B.C.E., they had integrated many city-states into a larger kingdom. The Hittites’ warrior aristocracy fielded the most fearsome army of the Bronze Age. They were quick to adopt the latest technologies, including the chariot.(Cole, Symes, Coffin, & Stacey, 2012, p.30) I took an anthropology class this pat semester so I compared the Hittites to the Neanderthals otherwise known as cave men or cave people. They contributed to shelters, invention of knives, medicines and language spoken today. It is known that the Hittites