The Hittites

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Term Paper Title	The Hittites
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The Hittites

     So who exactly are the Hittites you ask?  A group of people in the ancient Middle East obviously, but who are they?  Who did they worship, and how did they get their food?  The answers to the questions were untold until recently when the Hittites were finally recognized as one of the Great Powers of the Middle East much like the Egyptains or the Assyrians at the time.  This established group of people created a kingdom in what we now know as Turkey and Syria.  This big area of land was then known as Anatolia.  Anatolia had a huge source of timber and agricultural products, and this was one of the many things that attracted people there.  In fact that may be hard to believe because of what the area of Anatolia looks like today.  After all of the years of destruction of the trees by humans and goats, the land is pretty timberless and dry as surprising as it sounds.  The main reason for that though is because the land has been neglected for centuries.  This treeless and dried up area is the remains of what used to be the grounds of which the Hittites built their kingdom.
     The Hittites fought a great deal for their economic needs, and to understand this more fully, you’ll have to get more of an idea of what the geographical location was really like.  Hattusas itself sat on a rocky ridge overlooking a plain northward of fertile land which supplied much of the capital’s corn.  Although this didn’t seem to be a problem in itself, keeping it away from the Gasga in the north was a problem for the Hittites.  This is obviously where the Hittite army steps in, numbering up to 30,000 men, and consisting of two main arms, Chariots and Infantry.  The infantry was like the kings personal body guard. Horses in the Hattite army were only used to draw the Chariot as shown.  This chariot was very light weight, and it also manuevered very well at high speeds.  It was said to be “Perfected”.  The body of the chariot was wooden with leather covering with a pole pointing out of the middle lower area.  On each side was a horse to pull the chariot.  For weapons, The Hittites used sickle-shaped vicious swords with a cutting edge.  There were also shorter stabbing swords used called daggers.
     The everyday structure of the housing of the Hattites seems to be very well organized and plnanned according to the way that it sounds.  The streets were always very straight if the land that they lie on were straight as well.  They were also covered with a coarse gravel on the to...

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