1) Humane people
The Hittites they actively fought but, by the standards of that time, they were quite gentle people and avoided violence. The Hittites had no passion for torture and cruelty, unlike the Assyrian kings who had it to the full. They wanted the inhabitants of the conquered lands to respect new rulers, obey them out of love but not fear, as it was in the Assyria.
Their laws were quite humane. Almost any crime was punishable by a payment in cash or in kind. Thus, the killer could escape punishment by funeral of murdered at his expense and gave to victim’s family four people – his slaves or households.
2) Tolerant Hittites
The Hittites were very religious people and worshiped many gods. They got a name «People of a thousand gods" …show more content…
The Hittites wrote boustrophedon – they reached the end of the line and then wrote in the opposite direction. If the words did not fit in the line, it sometimes ran out of tablet boundaries. Hittites didn’t care of alignment lines. For example, Egyptians carefully fit the text within space for writing. The Hittites seemed to pay no attention to the external prettiness. They hastened to inform, and the meaning of the message was more important for them.
Besides, they used a lot of unexpected reductions that were ultimately confusing. For example, instead of several Hittite characters that make up the word, they could write one Sumerian sign that was a whole word. Many everyday Hittite words such as "woman", "sheep", "copper", were always replaced by their foreign designations - Akkadian or Sumerian. So, we do not even know how they were pronounced in the Hittite.
The use of similar symbols was like shorthand; it accelerated a text entry. It was assumed that the reader having met that sign would automatically replace it with the corresponding word. No wonder Hittitology requires considerable experience to correctly read the Hittite
The Hittites they actively fought but, by the standards of that time, they were quite gentle people and avoided violence. The Hittites had no passion for torture and cruelty, unlike the Assyrian kings who had it to the full. They wanted the inhabitants of the conquered lands to respect new rulers, obey them out of love but not fear, as it was in the Assyria.
Their laws were quite humane. Almost any crime was punishable by a payment in cash or in kind. Thus, the killer could escape punishment by funeral of murdered at his expense and gave to victim’s family four people – his slaves or households.
2) Tolerant Hittites
The Hittites were very religious people and worshiped many gods. They got a name «People of a thousand gods" …show more content…
The Hittites wrote boustrophedon – they reached the end of the line and then wrote in the opposite direction. If the words did not fit in the line, it sometimes ran out of tablet boundaries. Hittites didn’t care of alignment lines. For example, Egyptians carefully fit the text within space for writing. The Hittites seemed to pay no attention to the external prettiness. They hastened to inform, and the meaning of the message was more important for them.
Besides, they used a lot of unexpected reductions that were ultimately confusing. For example, instead of several Hittite characters that make up the word, they could write one Sumerian sign that was a whole word. Many everyday Hittite words such as "woman", "sheep", "copper", were always replaced by their foreign designations - Akkadian or Sumerian. So, we do not even know how they were pronounced in the Hittite.
The use of similar symbols was like shorthand; it accelerated a text entry. It was assumed that the reader having met that sign would automatically replace it with the corresponding word. No wonder Hittitology requires considerable experience to correctly read the Hittite