Download Hittites Blend Empire and Technology What area did the Hittites

Unit 3: Early River Valley Civilizations Part 2
 Chapter 3 & 4: People and Ideas on the Move/The Age of
Empires
 Section 1: Indo-European Migrations/The Empires of Egypt
and Nubia Collide
Hittites Blend Empire and Technology
1. What area did the Hittites occupy?
(Provide both names)
Anatolia
Asia Minor
a. How were they able to
conquer the Egyptians?
(superior chariots & iron weapons)
a. Around what time period?
Around 2000 BCE
5. What did they use to build their
chariots?
Iron, wood, and leather
b. They occupied what present
day country?
a. How did environmental
features in Anatolia help the
Hittites advance
technologically?
Turkey
2. What area in Mesopotamia did the
Hittites rule?
Babylon, chief city in the Tigris-Euphrates
Valley
a. Who did they fight for control
of this area?
Egypt
Iron ore and charcoal (raw materials) were
available in Anatolia
In Anatolia-could smelt iron & harden it into
weapons of war
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The Egyptians and the Hittites
3. From which culture and language
did the Hittites adopt?
1. Around what time period did the
Hittites move to Asia Minor?
1900 BCE
Akkadian, language of the Babylonians
a. Give examples of borrowed
ideas.
Used Hammurabi’s Code, but theirs was
more forgiving
a. At what battle did the two
meet?
Battle of Kadesh
b. What was the result?
Egyptians & Hittites made a peace treaty
4. What technology did the Hittites
excel in?
War