Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
Muwattalli did muster all the forces he could for the engagement, especially after his earlier defeat by Ramesses’father on the ...
55,000 (give or take a few thousand) –plus mercenaries if and when hired, and levies from subject-states if and when called upon ...
simultaneously or when campaigns of a relatively minor nature were undertaken. When the king himself led a campaign force, the c ...
Figure 18.2 Warrior-God with detail of upper torso,‘King’s Gate’, Hattusa. ...
2.25 m high, carved on the inside of one of the main gates of Hattusa, the sculpture that had so puzzled Charles Texier. The war ...
provided by a still surviving training manual, allegedly the work of a prisoner-of-war brought back by the Hittites as a deporte ...
battle conditions. To give greater stability to the heavily loaded vehicle, the axle was shifted from the vehicle’sreartoitsmidd ...
training may well have been to learn the prompt reassembling of their chariot as they drew near to enemy territory.) There would ...
HOW DID THEY DO IT? This brings me back to my initial question. How did they do it? What I mean is this. Despite their limited r ...
requisitioned from local rulers subject or friendly to Hatti, through whose territory a Hittite expeditionary force passed. The ...
than if it had been structured on more clear-cut ethnic lines. As far as we’re aware, issues of racial discrimination or claimed ...
THE ROLE OF THE TREATY Yet diplomatic activity often provided the Hittites with a relatively successful means of maintaining the ...
Amongst other important features of the vassal treaties was the requirement that a vassal must provide his overlord with troops ...
only in cases where a state continued to be troublesome after conquest, and then only until the troubles had subsided. The survi ...
force to win over a subject-people. Mursili must have welcomed the rebel’sfinal submission without the need for military action– ...
CHAPTER 19 The Man Who Would Be King THE PATHWAY TOGREATKINGSHIP H e was a sickly child, with only a few years of life left to h ...
appointed him governor of the Upper Land. It was an appointment that earned Hattusili a crop of enemies, for it meant displacing ...
an important cult centre of the goddess Ishtar, and her protégé thought it appropriate to pay his respects to her in the city. T ...
continued to resent his appointment. Notable among them was Arma-Tarhunda, the sacked governor of the region, who took advantage ...
Urhi-Teshub (we’ll retain his birth-name to avoid any confusion) may have served as a catalyst to change all this. Some 20 years ...
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