Hittites

The Human Hearing range is from 20Hz to 20kHz (20,000Hz). Hearing and sound plays a very important role in our lives. It allows us to communicate with each other. Music helps us express our feelings and share our cultures with the whole world. Sound allows us to hear, react to fear, and to hear different kinds of music. Sound is a form of energy, like light or heat (Seller, 3). Sound is produced by vibrating objects. When an object vibrates, the surrounding air moves back and forth as well.…

outcome of every treaty in history can be traced back to its completion or failure in the following 4 categories: specificity and completeness of the terms, enforcement of the terms, willingness of the participants, agreement over terms. The Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty was successful because it resulted in lasting, peaceful relations between previously feuding territories; the Thirty Years’ Peace was a failure because only thirteen years after its creation, another Peloponnesian War was…

defeated due to lies of the where bouts of the Hittite army from two spies who he had captured. The spies told Ramses II that the Army were located at Aleppo a city in Syria but when they arrived to camp before Kadesh he realized that the army was behind the city walls. The Egyptians fought hard and long but still did not capture Kadesh in this go around. It was not till his sixteenth year of reign that he had finally made peace with the King of Hittite and the surrounding cities. Ramses II was…

was prosperous with elaborate palaces for centralized government, writing, and record keeping. Mycenaean Greece controlled the late bronze age kingdom with trade, the arts and the base of King Agamemnon who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. The Hittites dominated modern day Turkey developed the fearsome horse-drawn war chariots and exploited Anatolia's rich deposits of copper, silver, and iron being the first to develop tools and weapons of iron.…

match the “Homeric” Troy. Certainly a 10 year large scale conflict seems quite unlikely, but raids/skirmishes involving the communities along the Western coast of Anatolia and the Mycenaean Greeks are documented in letters and treaties found at the Hittite capital of Hattusa. “My personal opinion is that the poems combine Near Eastern literary traditions, remembered historic events, various historic figures built into legendary heroes with a good deal of “add-on” to their portraits and deeds. So…

Upon reading the Twelve Tables, an 5th century B.C. Roman document providing law related to various aspects of Roman life, quite a bit can be gleaned about some of the major aspects of Roman society at that time. From the importance of fatherhood to evidence of an ongoing class-war, these laws provide a wealth of insight into various societal qualities of Rome at the creation of its first true legislation. Before any quality interpretation of the text, it should be noted the context within which…

The Israelites lived in the company of the Canaanities, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites and they married their daughters and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they worshiped their gods (NRSV, p.169). God left those nations behind after the death of Joshua in order to test the Israelites (NRSV, p. 169). The LORD wanted to know if the Israelites “care to walk in the way of the LORD” (NRSV, p. 169). The act of intermarrying and worshiping…

Closes correlations of similarities between covenants can be found between the Hittite culture and the Nation of Israel. The covenants found in Exodus, Deuteronomy and Joshua 24 seem to carry six primary traits that are found other ANE treaties. First off ANE treaties also began with a preamble. This was the place where the people of…

whoever controlled Canaan also had control of the lucrative trade routes that crisscrossed the terrain, making the land of Canaan a vital land bridge for crossing armies and goods. While Canaan attracted many major powers, such as the Egyptians and Hittites, it fell victim to many petty Canaanite, Transjordanian, and Mesopotamian kingdoms wishing to establish a foothold in the region whose loyalties would sway from one major power to another. One such group, known as the…

The story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of Egypt has been told numerous times through various media, including film. Without fail, Ramesses II is almost always portrayed as the unnamed pharaoh of the Exodus. He is often regarded as Egypt’s greatest and most powerful pharaoh. Born in 1302 BC, he was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is the second child of Seti I and Queen Tuya, and his only known sibling is Princess Tia. At fourteen years old, Ramesses was appointed…