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16 Cards in this Set
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Where is Anatolia on a modern-day map?
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Turkey
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What was the Hittite capital?
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Hattusa
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What are the Anatolian languages?
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Hittite (scholar's language) and Luvian (the language people spoke)
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How was the Hittite language found?
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On tablets at the burned site of Hattusa
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How was the Hittite language written?
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in cuneiform borrowed from the Akkadians
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In a Hittite document, you could find...
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Sumerian, Akkadian, Sumerian and Akkadian ideograms, and Hittite
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How long did the Hittite empire last?
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1000 years
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Where does our knowledge of the Hittite Law come from?
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"The Laws," an old Hittite document
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What are the two types of legal penalties in Hittite law? Explain them.
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retribution: the offender is punished for misdeeds
compensation: the victim is given something to compensate for the loss incurred |
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The Hittite law was NOT...
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divinely inspired
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Which type of legal penalty did the Hittites tend to use more?
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compensatory
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In Hittite law, what was the punishment for a murderer?
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the murder victim's family got to decide whether they wanted compensation or lifetime enslavement for the murderer
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collective responsibility in Hittite law
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the idea that a family or community is responsible for the actions of its members
and so can suffer punishment on behalf of any member’s actions |
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What was the power structure of the Hittite society?
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feudalistic with a king
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How was bestiality punished in Hittite law?
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by death
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What are two main types of syllabary in Hittite spelling?
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V, CV- caused a lot of confusion, because Hittite isn't written this cleanly
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