How to pronounce “hittites” in English

One is if the Hittites and the Egyptians both essentially collapsed at the same time, that

longer have the Hittites, per se, in Anatolia, but we do have some of the survivors, and we call them the Neo-Hittites down in North Syria.

Egyptians and the Hittites, but then Assyrians and Babylonians.

preferable because the scenario with the Egyptians and the Hittites going down, we know that's not what happened. The Hittites do not.

The Hittites, for example, up in Anatolia, they're replaced by smaller city-states and kingdoms. We've got some survivors whom we call the Neo-Hittites, the new Hittites in

The linear B never mentions contacts with Egypt or the Hittites, whatever.

that something that looked very strong like the Hittites was actually weakened internally and the first big gust of wind came and knocked that tree over and boom, no more Hittites.

or maybe less than three hops, like two hops for the Mycenaeans to the Hittites to the Assyrians, that's a small world network.

We know up in Anatolia, for example, where the Hittites were.

courtesy of Egyptian prisoners of war, and it absolutely decimated the Hittites.

The Hittites, per se, might have been the overlords.

And remember that the Hittites and

the Amalekites, Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, and so on were put to the edge of the sword, every last man, woman, and child massacred.

In what is now Turkey, ancient Anatolia, you had the Hittites.

actually happened back then, but we do know, for example, that there was a plague that hit the Hittites earlier, about 150 years before the collapse, back in the time of my favorite Hittite

would have brought down the rest of the network or if that city of Ugarit, the international port on the coast of North Syria, if that had collapsed at the same time as the Hittites,

That has left us with the scenario of Ugarit and the Hittites going down virtually simultaneously.

Others, like the Hittites, completely disappeared.

Others disappear entirely like the Hittites.

In other places, the huge empires that had been around, the Hittites, the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, some of them go away and are replaced by kind of a

Like they can't interact with the Hittites anymore

They take advantage of the fact that Ugarit has been destroyed and that the navies of some of the others, like the Hittites and the Egyptians,

And then the last category, that's the Hittites. Don't be a Hittite. The Hittites do not do well at all, in part 'cause they've

So I think the Hittites probably did it to themselves anyway, though it certainly didn't hurt that the sea peoples were on the shores of Anatolia.

So I put the Hittites down there.

try to figure out why they did, like why were the Cypriots and the Phoenicians able to be that much more successful than the Hittites, for example.

Same thing with Anatolia, with the Hittites, same thing with Mesopotamia and the

Hittite, right? The Trojans up in Troy, I'm not a Hittite, right?

'cause they're not there, there's no big Hittite king.

All right, you take something like ancient Anatolia and we talked about the Hittite Empire.

We also know that the Hittite capital city, Hattusa, was actually already abandoned before the