Timeline of Middle East history: Hittite Empire 1500 BC

Timeline of Middle East History: 3500 BC - AD 500

Asia Minor 1500 BC

The Hittites are an Indo-European people from the steppes who have established a powerful, war-like kingdom in Anatolia. They owe much of their military success to a technology originating from their steppe homelands, the chariot.

The Hittite kingdom, based on its central Anatolian capital, Hattusa, has by this period reached a high level of civilization.

Further west, on the Aegean coast, such cities as Troy and Miletus participate in the Aegean civilization, and have developed close links with Crete and mainland Greece.

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