Hittite Empire Research Paper

Ancient civilizations have had profound effects of what we know as the modern world today. The primary purpose for anything that lives is to survive. Throughout history animals, plants and humans have adapted to their surroundings. All living things have changed throughout time. The thing that differs humans from rest is, humans are more cognitively advanced. Over the course of time the shape and size of the human skull has changed. The size of the human brain has increased, which has allowed humans to adapt more to their surroundings. To survive, humans were making tools for hunting and to cut with. The closer you lived to the equator the darker your skin may have been, so you could adapt to the intensity of the sun’s rays. If you lived further

After Hatshepsut’s death, Tuthmosis III did become the ruler of Egypt. However, he had only destroyed Hatshepsut’s legacy 20 years into his reign. As it was first thought, Tuthmosis III acted out of revenge when he destroyed all evidence of his stepmother, although the time it took for him to do this became questionable. This “does not…support the idea of personal and long-anticipated revenge…of… [Tuthmosis III] against his stepmother…”. When she was in power she did not feel threatened by her stepson and therefore had no reason to remove him. When he became old enough to rule she created a co-regency with her stepson in which the two of them ruled over Egypt

Hittites Empire failed by carelessly having internal conflict, Assyria, I believe, was behind the collapse of Hittities and took advantage of the weak point of their internal conflicts. The key to success in all empires is to get cooperation from some groups within the empire in which you want to overpower and that is exactly what the Assyrias did, and did it well (p. 46). I believe that statement helps my point, the Assyrias had something to do with the collapse of the Hittites since there was already conflict within the Hittities Empire, a weak point. The Assyrias grew massively and was too consumed with their own growth and expansion that they lost focus of Babylon, which finally gained independence. The two empires were destroyed by internal conflicts

The Persian Empire began in 500 B.C.E. It was the world’s largest empire with diverse population of around 35 to 50 million people. The ancient Persians were the descendants of nomadic people, Indo-Europeans; They migrated from Central Asia in the east to the Iranian plateau. The empire began with the conquest by Cyrus the great. The empire ruled by the monarchs.

Before defining the composition of the traditional White Anglo-Saxon Protestant American diet, we must first identify the definition of a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant citizen. A White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or WASP is fairly culturally distinctive from the rest of society. It is a derogative term to describe wealthy, white American citizens belonging to the upper class. These people have a distinctive culture that separates them from traditional American culture, especially in their exotic, or exquisite taste in ethnic foods.

Cuneiform is a development of the early civilizations that has had, and continues to have, the greatest impact. The ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia had very defective ways of tracking events. Everyone, varying from farmers attempting to keep crop dates, to priests tracking ziggurat activity, struggled to remember important information. “The business activities of the ziggurat required the keeping of accurate records.” (Howe, H. & Howe, R., 1992). With no way to record important information, it was chaos. The Mesopotamians needed a way to fix this problem, a way to record information. An additional problem was communication; the Mesopotamians did not have a solid way of communicating ideas or stories. All stories needed to be passed down by word of mouth, this form of storytelling made it

In the city- state of Babylon the people had be ruling the land for years and the surrounding cities have started to plan against the great city of Babylon. One city in particular had be waiting for the time to attack and gain control of the fertile crescent, that city was Assyria. The ruler of Babylon Shamash-mudammiq had fallen ill and the strength of the city had weaken. This was the chance that Assyria had been cranking for to take down Babylon. The one issue that came up was that the Babylonians main god was the god of war and strength. The idol that enabled the Babylonians to speak to the gods and receive aid from it was at the top of their ziggurat. The only way that the Assyrians believed that they could defeat Babylon was to steal the idol and use it themselves to defeat Babylon.

Because the Egyptians had no written history and non of their hieroglyphics mention the sphinx, it is impossible to know for sure what it's initial purpose was. It has been subject to the harsh weather and scoring sun of the desert, and vandals, so it is not in the best condition. It was even buried up to the head in sand for thousands if years. it is also thought to be unfinished, so it's true purpose is hard to pinpoint.

The great Sargon of Akkad tried to invade Hattusa between circa 2334-2279 BCE but failed. Following his grandfather’s conquest,

For a few centuries after the death of Shamshi-Adad I, Assyrian cities were subjugated by a succession of outsiders: Babylonians under Hammurabi, Hittites and Mitanni-Hurrians. From 1791 to 1360 A.D. control over Assyria passed back and forth, although Assyria itself remained more or less stable. After a power struggle between the Hittites and Mitanni, the Hittites successfully broke the power of the Mitanni in the region. Assyria then began to take control over territories that had belonged to Mitanni. The Hittites battled with the Assyrians, but the Assyrian king Ashur-Uballit stamped out any remaining Mitanni or Hittite control over northern Mesopotamia.

There are many ways to tell if a civilization is considered an ancient state or not. It is possible for one to meet the minimum requirements, but not the other characteristics. Characteristic of a state include the following: government, cities, religion, writing, social classes, and job specialization. I decided to look closer at the Inca Empire to see if it exceeds the minimum requirements for a state.

King tut was killed and his wife ankensnamen is in need of a king to rule all of egypt

Babylonians believed in many gods but the most important god was Marduk who outshone all of the gods in fact he was so important that they made him his own ziggurat called the tower of babel. Nebuchadnezzar who was one of the rulers of Babylon made the hanging gardens for his wife because she missed the look of her homeland. So he made the hanging gardens so that she could remember how it looked. Scholars think it was between 80 and 300 ft.

Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations were believed to begin roughly the same time. Both civilizations had a develop trading. They established trade relations to each other so the appearance of writing system in both places was obviously. The Sumerians etched their recording in writing on mud or clay tablets. They used a developed system called cuneiform. It used wedge shaped symbols, pictures to depict words rather than letters. Egyptian used the writing system called hieroglyphs, based on a combination of pictograms and phonetic (Backman, p23). They recorded their writing on papers making from the woven strips of papyrus reed. This material was more simple, easier to produce and cheaper than clay

Beginning of the Akkadian empire. The First Akkadian cities developed on the Tigris and the Euphrates. They Akkadians started their civilization just north of the sumerians. The Akkadians and the sumerians had peace for a long time until a new person became the king of the Akkadian empire his name is Sargon. Sargon broke the peace in the 2300s he broke it because he wanted to start expanding his land for his empire. After he took over the Sumerians he started to build his capital on the Euphrates river and his capital was called Akkad.