Essays on Hittite

Ancient Middle East is considered to be a cradle of human civilization by many historians. Before Leonard Wooley excavated an ancient city Ur, no archaeologist had ever studied this region in such a detailed way. Egyptology developed much faster due to a great number of artifacts found here and a lot of curious myths and legends connected with Egyptian tombs. However, the first cities in a modern understanding of the term were built in Ancient Mesopotamia, and the first rules and laws came from here as well. Ancient Ur, for example, was one of the first cities that had ...

1) Human population began to create groups about 11,000 years ago. They started to produce food through agriculture and farming instead of simply gathering fruits and vegetables and hunting animals. This innovation was brought by the necessity of people to face the scarcity of food, especially during the winter periods.

According to Levack (2010), human society received a major impact by the development of agriculture and farming. In particular, people tend to form communities in order to increase the production and develop new techniques in order to avoid the shortage of food during winter periods. Moreover in this way, ...

The movie Ramses-Raging Chariots is one of the most interesting movies that can be viewed online. This movie tries to show what happened in the battle of Kadesh. By watching the introduction of the movie, one would get the perception that the rest of it would involve a series of fights and wars. The war that escalates in this movie is between the Hittite and the Egyptian Empires. According to the explanations given in the movie, the war between these two empires took place in a city called Kadesh. The attires worn by the soldiers indicate that the wars were in ...