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The Assyrians And Hittites

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The Hittites and The Assyrians According to the book “the Hittites were an Indo-European speaking people who arrived around 2000 B.C.E.” They were conquerors and colonists who imposed themselves and their language on the people the vanished. The Hittite Kingdom was located on the central Anatolian Plateau. The Hittites conquered much of Anatolia as well as northern Syria and the western edge of Mesopotamia. The Hittites were quick to adopt the latest technology. Hittites were written in cuneiform writing, acquired from the Akkadians. Their culture developed from the indigenous Hatti people. Joshua Mark states that, “The Assyrians were a Semitic people who originally spoke and wrote Akkadian before the easier to use Aramaic language
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