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Hunting the Hittites?

Hunting the Hittites?. An adventure in history!. Pictographs of Anatolia. Pictographs. John Bercat City of Hemet Wrote about it. Hattusa. 1834 Charles Texier King’s Gate Armed with Axe and Sword His panoramic view showed 5km city. Hattusas in Bogazkoy. Alacahoyuk Sphinxes. 1835

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Hunting the Hittites?

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  1. Hunting the Hittites? An adventure in history!

  2. Pictographs of Anatolia

  3. Pictographs • John Bercat • City of Hemet • Wrote about it

  4. Hattusa • 1834 • Charles Texier • King’s Gate • Armed with Axe and Sword • His panoramic view showed 5km city

  5. Hattusas in Bogazkoy

  6. Alacahoyuk Sphinxes • 1835 • William Hamilton • Alaca Hoyuk in Turkey • Sphinxes lining a walkway • Who were these people?

  7. Alacahoyak Double Headed Eagle

  8. 1862 George Perrow Nishan Tash Heiroglyphs 1870 Johnson Jessup Hymet Stones Heiroglyphs Nishan Tash and Hemet Stones

  9. Hemet Stones

  10. Karkemish in Northern Syria • 1876 This was found in Karkemish in Northern Syria • Found some more pictographs that were the same as from Hattusa • Who were these people?

  11. Archibald Henry Sayce • 1880 Announced that these people were the Hittites • He was laughed at • Called the “Inventor of the Hittites” • He did not back down!

  12. Tell El-Amarna Letters

  13. What was Arzawa? • 1902 • Knudtzon • Hittite language was • Indo European! • They laughed at him • He recanted • BUT…He was right!

  14. Hattusus Citadel

  15. Hittite • 2000 BC • Settled in Anatolia (modern day Turkey) • In 1650 BC the tribes joined forces • Created a capital city of Hattushash

  16. Shuppiluliuma • He was King Tudhaliva’s general. • The kingdom was not a dynastic kingdom • He expanded the kingdom

  17. Hittite Gods • Had many gods • Teshub was their chief god • He was the God of weather • He is holding a flash of lightening

  18. Enemies!

  19. Kadesh Treaty • Egyptian and Hittite Peace Treaty • Hugely Important • The lands were much contested but war was futile so they became allies • 2 Kings 7:6 Show the extent of that peace treaty!

  20. Hittite Warriors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyxR1tSeY0 Smithsonian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQoGezgdZU Lego Animation

  21. Hattusas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PoG4xoLb8

  22. Hittite Warfare Battering Ram

  23. Make your own! http://web.duchesne.org/usweb/old%20webpages/FreshmanReviewSites2004/historyreviewz/assyrians.htm

  24. Hittite Warrior Chariot

  25. Suggested Reads • The Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson

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