Download - Hittites, Kassites, & Mitanni. Hittites Anatolian people – 1600 B.C. Asia Minor Present day Turkey
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Key Military advantages
• 1st people to master iron working (strong tools and weapons
• Chariot – wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
-allowed them to move more quickly- fired arrows at the enemy
smelting
• Heating iron ore, hammer out the impurities, cool quickly
• Passed on to other military empires…Assyrians
Geography
• 1800 B.C. – settled in western Iran• Captured the city of Babylon• Capital - Dur-Kurigalzu• Ruled southern Mesopotamia (Hittites –
Northern)• Middle Babylonian period• Ruled 400 years
Kassites
• Not as literate as those in Mesopotamia• Mesopotamia entered a Dark Age• Used language that was not written (Unlike
others)• polytheistic