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In 1595 BCE, a incomprehensible new army struck Babylon unexpectedly, distributing terror throughout the town. These warriors would mix the old Near East, destroying anything in their way with ruthless efficiency. In a period of conflict and conquest, they were the mightiest military power of how old they are. They were the Hittites, a warlike civilization that rose in central Anatolia from the capital city of Hattusa. At its level from around 1400 to 1200 BCE, the Hittite empire prolonged over a wide area of modern day Turkey and north Syria. Hattusa was different from the other major cities of the old Near East in one major respect: it was landlocked and not located on a significant river. Initially, such a situation may seem just like a liability, which it was at terms of trade, but for the most part its central position meant that the Hittites could move their armies more successfully from one movie theater of operations to some other (Macqueen 2003, 56). As being a landlocked capital, Hattusa was also safe from naval disorders from other kingdoms, so if the Hittites' foes wished to invade their capital, they might have to trek through the middle of the kingdom to make it happen, which was most improbable. As Hittite electricity grew through the Old Kingdom, the royal city of Hattusa became more important and even wealthier. From his citadel looking over Hattusa, Hattusili I launched the first major Hittite disorders in to the Near East, first conquering the cities between Hattusa and the Mediterranean (Macqueen 2003, 36). The Hittites' mission was to become the greatest empire the globe had ever before seen, yet after they had been successful, this ruthless army and the huge empire it possessed created simply vanished as mysteriously as it possessed surfaced. The Hittites enforced themselves upon the mountains of central Anatolia, where they built the capital city of Hattusa, intending for this to last forever, but it was so remote that no other great civilization settled in the same location thereafter. As there was no one else to pass on the Hittites' great misconceptions and legends, their record died with the exodus from the capital in 1200 BCE. As time passes, the rocks of Hattusa were buried, and its name was neglected. For 3,000 years, all traces of the Hittites and their capital city were lost, from the annals books to misconceptions and legends, until, one at a time, fragments using their company lost world started to emerge. The rediscovery of this civilization through its texts and materials remains presents one of the major accomplishments of archaeology in the 20th hundred years. These tantalizing remains have opened up an environment of mysteries and key codes, a fortress city created to last forever, an unstoppable conflict machine, and a mighty empire that at one point was higher than the modern-day one in Egypt.

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