{"id":2971,"date":"2023-02-09T06:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:59:53","slug":"who-are-hittites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-hittites\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Hittites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Hittites:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hittites, were <strong>members of an ancient Indo-European people<\/strong> who <strong>appeared in Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey <\/strong>)at the beginning of the <strong>2nd millennium BCE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Hittite language<\/strong> was a member of the Anatolian branch of the <strong>Indo-European language family.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Hittite <strong>economy was based on agriculture<\/strong>, with the main crops being emmer <strong>wheat and barley.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Although their civilization thrived during the Bronze Age, the <strong>Hittites were the forerunners of the Iron Age<\/strong> and were <strong>manufacturing iron artifacts<\/strong> from as early as the <strong>14th century BCE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Hittites were <strong>famous for their skill in building and using chariots<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Hittite empire:\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Between 1400 and 1200 B.C.E<\/strong>. the Hittites established <strong>one of the great empires<\/strong> of the <strong>ancient Middle East.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Hittite empire, with its <strong>capital at Bogazk\u00f6y<\/strong> (also <strong>called as Hattusas<\/strong>), was the <strong>chief power and cultural force in Western Asia from 1400 to 1200 BC.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>head of the Hittite state was the king<\/strong>, but other <strong>officials exercised independent authority<\/strong> over various branches of the government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>After c. 1180 BCE, the empire came to an end during the Bronze Age collapse<\/strong> and <strong>splintered into several independent \u201cNeo-Hittite\u201d city-states,<\/strong> some of which survived until the 8th century BCE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Where is the importance of Anatolia?<\/h3>\n<p>Because of its location at the point where the continents of Asia and Europe meet, Anatolia was, from the beginnings of civilization, a crossroads for numerous peoples migrating or conquering from either continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/science\/tree-rings-unlock-mystery-of-hittite-empires-fall-in-12th-century-bce\/1361854\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tree rings unlock mystery of Hittite Empire\u2019s fall in 12th century BCE<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hittites were ancient Indo-European people who appeared in Anatolia at the beginning of 2nd millennium BCE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}