WARRIORS OF ANATOLIA
Bryce, Trevor (University of Queensland, Australia)
The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces, their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers, and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic under-population and sometimes devastating plague. How, then, can the rise and triumph of this ancient imperium be expl...