The Hittite Empire; what inspired the trojan war

check out Ground News and get 40% off Vantage access!! https://ground.news/fig guys, im connecting the dots... 0:00 welcome home 1:28 who are the hittites 4:52 Old Kingdom 6:37 Middle Kingdom 7:06 New Kingdom 8:39 the Dakhamunzu affair 11:40 Muršili II 12:48 plague!! 18:10 the battle of Kadesh 21:44 Piyama-Radu & Ahhiyawa 24:33 Ḫattušili III 32:23 Achilles 37:24 fall of the empire 39:36 luv ya ----- art in thumbnail by Ivan Koltovich sources; Breyer, F. (2010). Egyptological Remarks Concerning Daḫamunzu. Ägypten Und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, 20, 445–451. Bryce, T. (2003). Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age (1st ed.). Routledge. Freewalt, J. A. (2017). Ay And The Daḫamunzu Affair. A Master’s Thesis. American Military University, Charles Town WV. Güterbock, H. G. (1956). The Deeds of Suppiluliuma as Told by His Son, Mursili II. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 10(2), 41–68. Hoffner, H. A., & Melchert, H. C. (2024). A Grammar of the Hittite Language: Part 1: Reference Grammar (2nd ed.). Penn State University Press. Roux, G. (1993). Ancient Iraq. London: Penguin.