Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
achieved by routing the rebel forces there and destroying their stronghold Sanahuitta. But by moving his centre of power northwa ...
quickly as possible, and grazing lands stocked with sheep and cattle, in order to keep the population alive while the city was i ...
missing part of the text; see below), and Hattusili returned safely home, his wagons laden with the plunder of the conquered sta ...
This whole episode of invasion, attack and counter-attack provides ourfirst instance of what was to be a recurring theme through ...
there are some very problematic aspects of it. Firstly, Hattusili may have ruled for 30 or more years. If so, then taken at face ...
Hittite kings had neither the organisational capacity nor the manpower to contemplate an expansion of their sovereignty over the ...
CHAPTER 4 The Legacy of an Ailing King W e come now to whatmaybe the end of Hattusili’s reign–or least to a period when the king ...
the last words he will ever speak. They may prove crucial to the kingdom’s survival. Already the land of Hatti has suffered turm ...
how critical the king’s meeting is with the chief dignitaries of his land. For they are called upon not only to endorse (yet ano ...
daughter (and probably also the son) and rejected nephew have not been executed. Their punishment is simply banishment from the ...
seems that hostility towards the king did not extend to all members of his family. Hattusili’s own children appear to have enjoy ...
in the Syrian region, only after he felt confident that his hold over his kingdom was fully secure. AWORTHY SUCCESSOR In any cas ...
In the years to come, peoples from the east called the Kassites set up a ruling dynasty that would hold sway over the whole of B ...
CHAPTER5 ‘NowBloodshed HasBecome Common’ D espite ensuring his place in the Hittites’roll of honour for the rest of the kingdom’ ...
bloodshed. All the while the kingdom suffered–its subject-states in rebellion, its land ravaged by drought. The gods had a hand ...
or a concubine, then the husband of one of his daughters becomes eligible. Anantiyant-husband is a son-in-law who formally‘enter ...
They had already invaded the Hittite homeland during Hattusili’s reign and did so again, almost without hindrance during the rei ...
It was all too good to be true. Successful though they were in military terms, Tuthmosis’campaigns failed to establish permanent ...
CHAPTER 6 The Setting for an Empire I nChapter 7,we shall see how Tudhaliya went about laying the foundations of the Hittite emp ...
of Hatti’s Anatolian cities and states. This is because we can match up many Syrian city-names known from written records with a ...
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