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Hittites: Empires
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Hittites are the civilization you require to quickly wipe out the enemy in Age of Empires, but are an otherwise crap civilisation: no boats, composite bowmen, airborne David Bowie, etc. The well known recipe goes as follows.
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The Hittites tried to keep this valuable technology secret. But as their empire collapsed about 1200 B.C., Hittite ironsmiths migrated to serve customers elsewhere. The new knowledge ... spread across Asia, Africa, and Europe, ushering in the Iron Age.
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The Hittites used the cuneiform system of writing taken from the Babylonians, but they ... employed a system of hieroglyphs to inscribe a language closely related to Hittite, possibly a Luwian dialect. Although the hieroglyphs were used during the period of the empire, most inscriptions belong to the period after its downfall. The literature of the Hittites was highly developed, particularly in the form of historical records and stories.
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[I]n a manga similar to "Red River", called "Ouke no Monshou", which is still a continuing manga published in Japan (now into its 53rd volume), has mentions of the Hittites empire, its conflicts with Egypt and neighbouring countries. In the comics, a fictional prince Izmil falls in love with a 20th century girl named Carol (similar to Mursili in Red River).
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The Art and Exhibition Hall is producing its own film on the cultural sites of the Hittites. Entitled "Städte, Tempel, Rituale - Im Reich der Hethiter" (Towns, Temples, Rituals - In the Empire of the Hittites), it will be shown in the exhibition and will ... be televised on 31 January at 10.25 p.m. on the 3Sat network.
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