Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
Arnuwanda’s litany of complaints against him. Seeking to carve out a mini-empire for himself in southwestern Anatolia, he invade ...
clearer we find him increasing the territory governed by his treacherous vassal. This enabled Madduwatta to extend his own power ...
viewpoint of the whole matter, which may be far from a balanced one. What would Madduwatta’s own response have been to the strin ...
over some of the western lands for himself, while he still remained, at least officially, a Hittite subject. So what was the act ...
cooks, the bakers, the ploughmen, and the gardeners, and made them their servants [...]^3 Arnuwanda simply did not have the reso ...
CHAPTER 9 From Near Extinction to the Threshold of Supremacy A rnuwanda may have been a conscientious ruler who did his best wit ...
cities served as administrative centres of the kingdom, and all have provided us with tablet archives. They are Sapinuwa, the la ...
documents. Sometimes they appended short notes to the official communications, personal postscripts for their scribal colleagues ...
In earlier days the Hatti lands were sacked by its enemies. The Kaskan enemy came and sacked the Hatti lands and he made Nenassa ...
The most likely answer to thefirst question is that he shifted his court to a city called Samuha. We have yet to identify the re ...
THE TIDE TURNS Surviving fragments of DS provide us with scraps of information about Tudhaliya’s campaigns of reconquest. Most o ...
against the Hittite counter-offensive. Even when Suppiluliuma finally managed to expel all the Arzawan troops from Hatti’s perip ...
the text which tells us this (one of the prayers of Suppiluliuma’s son Mursili II) doesn’t explicitly say that Suppiluliuma actu ...
CHAPTER 10 The Greatest Kingdom of Them All D espite its military might, the Hittite empire could never be secure while Hatti’s ...
might reasonably be concerned that a Hittite conquest of Mittani’s Syrian subjects would pave the way for Suppiluliuma’sseizureo ...
Hittite subversive activities and military intervention in their territories. The pharaoh’s clear intention to avoid getting cau ...
Tushratta was killed or at least driven from power, Suppiluliuma would support Artatama’s accession, followed up by friendship b ...
and could do no more than take to his heels, abandoning his capital and taking with him as many of his troops as he could extrac ...
outside Carchemish and establishing there a winter camp, a fortified settlement called Murmuriga. From here he could renew his o ...
of his sons to become her next husband, and consequentially Egypt’s next ruler. This was because the royal dynasty of Egypt had ...
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