Tsegamla writes:
So, why did they call them Hittites? When they found that the Anatolian kingdom didn't ever really give itself a name, did some guy just say something like, "Hey, guys! Looks like we found us the missing Hittites over here!" out of sarcasm? Were they just putting a name with no people together with a people with no name?
The Hitties were an Indo-European people, from the east and were gradually absorbed by the Hatti. They were among the first to perfect the war chariot, and became a great power in the ancient world. Their state and culture developed in central Anatolia, as the Hatti before them. The Hittite Period is roughly contemporary with the height of the Minoan civilization on Crete, the rise and fall of Mycenaen Greece, and the Middle and New Kingdoms of Egypt, but, despite evidence from ample cuneiform inscriptions, there is no consensus over which branch of Indo-European it belongs to.
I believe they were called the Hittites because they ruled of a place called "The Land of Hatti." Since Angloes can't pronounce for sh*t, they're called the Hitties. And Hatti eastern Anatolian peninsula, but that's just a
guess.
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