The Hittite Empire; what inspired the trojan war

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guys, im connecting the dots...

0:00 welcome home
1:28 who are the hittites
4:52 Old Kingdom
6:37 Middle Kingdom
7:06 New Kingdom
8:39 the Dakhamunzu affair
11:40 Muršili II
12:48 plague!!
18:10 the battle of Kadesh
21:44 Piyama-Radu & Ahhiyawa
24:33 Ḫattušili III
32:23 Achilles
37:24 fall of the empire
39:36 luv ya

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art in thumbnail by Ivan Koltovich

sources;
Breyer, F. (2010). Egyptological Remarks Concerning Daḫamunzu. Ägypten Und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, 20, 445–451.

Bryce, T. (2003). Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age (1st ed.). Routledge.

Freewalt, J. A. (2017). Ay And The Daḫamunzu Affair. A Master’s Thesis. American Military University, Charles Town WV.

Güterbock, H. G. (1956). The Deeds of Suppiluliuma as Told by His Son, Mursili II. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 10(2), 41–68.

Hoffner, H. A., & Melchert, H. C. (2024). A Grammar of the Hittite Language: Part 1: Reference Grammar (2nd ed.). Penn State University Press.

Kopanias, K. (2018) 'Deconstructing Achilles. The Stories About Piyamaradu And The Making Of A Homeric Hero', in ΕΥΔΑΙΜΩΝ: Studies in honour of Jan Bouzek. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University; Masaryk University, 51-64.

Roux, G. (1993). Ancient Iraq. London: Penguin.