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“The young king, though unproven when he took the throne, would go on to show himself as an able general and ruler. At”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“the Kaskians seized on the perceived opportunity that was the regnal shift from Arnuwanda to Mursili to launch attacks on Hittite lands from the north. This”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“Alalu is said to have reigned for 9 years over the Earth before having been usurped by his son. Upon”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“not,”
― Duncan Ryan, The Sumerians: History's First Recorded Civilization

“Whatever their origin, the Sea Peoples sacked many of the great cities of the ancient world, taking their wealth and food rather than seizing their lands for purposes of creating a lasting kingdom or empire. In”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“According to some surviving accounts (which must be taken with some small amount of doubt, as they are largely Egyptian and point to an unconfirmed Egyptian victory that greatly glorifies the personal actions of Ramses II, leading many scholars to believe that they are propaganda that was loosely based on real events of the battle), the”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“The Hittites also give historians their first look into a written history of an Indo-European people, ”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“Mursili, by contrast, was able to mount a successful attack on the Yahmadite capital of Halab (the modern city of Aleppo, in Syria) and conquer it. Upon”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“The Hittite language, however, seems to have given way to the indigenous Semitic languages during this time, likely indicating that the Hittite people themselves no longer constituted a majority of the population, even in states that were under the rule of Hittite kings.”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“These laws characterize the Hittite economy as something of an early command economy, with pricing and value dictated by the state, rather than determined by the parties to a given agreement.”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“At this time, Egypt, much like the Hittite empire, was in a resurgent phase defined by expansion into territories that it had previously held. Ramses”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“Quite likely, the Sea Peoples were a group displaced by invasion or some form of natural disaster, much as the Hittites may have been when they first appeared in Anatolia. Whatever”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World

“Suppiluliuma's first orders of business were to secure his borders, make peace with his enemies and retake the lands that had been lost during the rule of his father. A”
― Duncan Ryan, The Hittites: The Lost Empire of the Ancient World