Home Region: Anatolia-Caucasus (Southwest Asia)
Hatti - New Kingdom
1400 BCE 1180 BCE
Displayed: 1240 BCE
Hattusa
Learn more about polity border choices.
Hit enter after changing the year or setting the play rate.
General Description
The period of the Hittite New Kingdom lasts from about 1400-1180 BCE although the dynasty that created it, originating from the city Kumbnani within the Kizzuwatna polity, came to power in the mid-fifteenth century BCE. The rulers of this dynasty were the creators of the Hittite empire, which during the reign of King Suppiluliuma I (1356-1319 BCE) and his successors achieved the greatest prosperity. In the period of its greatest splendor, the Hittite king controlled up to 400,000 squared kilometers of land including the areas of Northern Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine.
The central bureaucracy was relatively sophisticated: a Chief of the Scribes headed up the Hittite chancellery
[1]
whilst a separate administrator, the hazannu, had responsibility for the city of Hattusa.
[2]
Keepers of the Royal Storehouses were also important officials.
[3]
District governors known as Lord of the Watchtower were appointed for the provinces
[2]
whilst the conquest of Syria c1340 BCE lead to the position of viceroy being created for the important urban centre of Karkamis.
[4]
The power of the state was based on the army, which was great for the times - it had iron weapons, armor, and excellent war chariots.
During the reign of Muwattalli, Ramses II was in power in Egypt, and the war between two most powerful states in the Middle East area resulted in the first written international treaty known to us as " Kadesh Treaty ". Although this treaty was originally written in the Akkadian language, copies in Hittite and Egyptian languages were made. Around 1200 BCE, the Hittite state probably fell under the pressure of the Sea Peoples, although a few Hittite city-states in Northern Syria survived until 708 BC.
[1]: (Bryce 2002, 66)
[2]: (Bryce 2002, 16)
[3]: (Bryce 2002, 18)
[4]: (Thuesen 2002, 45)
Identity and Location
| 36 N |
| Hatti - New Kingdom |
| Hattusa |
| Hittite Kingdom | |
| Hittite Empire | |
| Kingdom of the Hittites | |
| Hethiter | |
| Hittites | |
| Hetyci | |
| Hititler veya Etiler |
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
| Hittite |
| Neo-Hittite Kingdoms |
| continuity |
| Preceding: Konya Plain - Late Bronze Age II (tr_konya_lba) [continuity] | |
| Succeeding: Neo-Hittite Kingdoms (tr_neo_hittite_k) [continuity] |
| unitary state |
Language
Religion
Social Scale
| [15,000 to 20,000] people |
| [250,000 to 350,000] km2 | 1300 BCE |
| [300,000 to 400,000] km2 | 1200 BCE |
| [1,300,000 to 2,000,000] people |
Hierarchical Complexity
Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information
/ Writing System
Information
/ Kinds of Written Documents
Information
/ Money
Information
/ Postal System
Information
/ Measurement System
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology
Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Coding in Progress.
Religion Variables
Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences
Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
Coding in Progress.
NGA Settlements:
| Year Range | Hatti - New Kingdom (tr_hatti_new_k) was in: |
|---|---|
| (1344 BCE 1181 BCE) | Konya Plain |
Home NGA: Konya Plain
General Variables
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utm Zone | 36 N | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Original Name | Hatti - New Kingdom | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Capital | Hattusa | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Alternative Name | Hittite Kingdom | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Alternative Name | Hittite Empire | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Alternative Name | Kingdom of the Hittites | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Alternative Name | Hethiter | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Alternative Name | Hittites | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Alternative Name | Hetyci | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Alternative Name | Hititler veya Etiler | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supracultural Entity | Hittite | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Succeeding Entity | Neo-Hittite Kingdoms | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Relationship to Preceding Entity | continuity | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
|
Preceding Entity
1500 BCE 1400 BCE
|
Konya Plain - Late Bronze Age II (tr_konya_lba) [continuity] | Confident | |||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
|
Succeeding Entity
1180 BCE 900 BCE
|
Neo-Hittite Kingdoms (tr_neo_hittite_k) [continuity] | Confident | |||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Degree of Centralization | unitary state | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
Social Complexity Variables
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population of the Largest Settlement | [15,000 to 20,000] people | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Polity Territory | [250,000 to 350,000] km2 | Confident | 1,300 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Polity Territory | [300,000 to 400,000] km2 | Confident | 1,200 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Polity Population | [1,300,000 to 2,000,000] people | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialized Government Building | Absent | Inferred | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Merit Promotion | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Full Time Bureaucrat | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Examination System | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Irrigation System | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Food Storage Site | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Drinking Water Supply System | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Communal Building | Uncoded | Undecided | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Special Purpose House | Uncoded | Undecided | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mines or Quarry | Present | Inferred | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written Record | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Script | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Phonetic Alphabetic Writing | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Nonwritten Record | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Non Phonetic Writing | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Mnemonic Device | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific Literature | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Sacred Text | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Religious Literature | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Practical Literature | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Philosophy | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Lists Tables and Classification | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| History | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Fiction | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Calendar | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Token | Absent | Inferred | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Precious Metal | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Paper Currency | Absent | Inferred | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Indigenous Coin | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Foreign Coin | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Article | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postal Station | Uncoded | Undecided | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| General Postal Service | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Courier | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geometrical Measurement System | Uncoded | Undecided | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Palisade | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Stone Walls Non Mortared | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Stone Walls Mortared | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Settlements in a Defensive Position | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Modern Fortification | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Moat | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Fortified Camp | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Earth Rampart | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Ditch | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Complex Fortification | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Long Wall | unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tension Siege Engine | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Sling Siege Engine | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Sling | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Self Bow | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Javelin | Present | Inferred | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Handheld Firearm | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Gunpowder Siege Artillery | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Crossbow | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Composite Bow | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Atlatl | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| War Club | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Sword | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Spear | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Polearm | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Dagger | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Battle Axe | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horse | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Elephant | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Donkey | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Dog | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Camel | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Bark Etc | Unknown | Suspected | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Shield | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Scaled Armor | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Plate Armor | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Limb Protection | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Leather Cloth | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Laminar Armor | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Helmet | Present | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Chainmail | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
| Breastplate | Absent | Confident | 1400 BCE 1180 BCE | ||||||||
|
Loading...
|
|||||||||||
Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Religion Variables
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More |
|---|
| Variable | Coded Value | Tags | Year(s) | See More |
|---|
Crisis Cases
Instability Data
Power Transitions