Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. In this episode

of the podcast, we'll be looking at volume nine, issue three, the mighty rulers of Anatolia,

the Hittites and their successors. For more information on the magazine, go into ancient dash warfare.com.

Joining me tonight is Joshua Browers,

Mary Darm, Mark McCaffrey, Sean Manning and Stephen Weinggarner.

So for those listeners who've not read the magazine,

let's start with, who are the hit hates?

Very briefly, you can say that in the first half of the Le Brondage, you have four major

powers, which are the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Metani and the Babylonians, and

about halfway through the Metani Empire sort of disintegrates because of all the troubles

that we will undoubtedly get to later. And then it sort of disintegrates because of all the troubles that we will undoubtedly get to later.

And then it sort of shifts.

The power vacuum is filled in with the Assyrian Empire that sort of rises to the four.

So you have this late Bronze Age that's dominated by four major powers, largely with

various hangers on around it, including

Azawa in the West and Ahayawa in the West somewhere, whether they are a kindance in the

sense of Greeks is a matter of debate and how far they stretch and how small.

But you have these four major powers.

So initially Egypt, Metani, Malon, and then further to the west, the Hittites, and then

halfway through the Metani disappear and that vacuum gets filled up by the Assyrians.

And that lasts until about 1200 BC when there's a big catastrophe that we also talked about briefly in a podcast on issue 9.1 on the fall of Rome,

where all these Bronze Age kingdoms basically collapsed to a greater or lesser degree, including the Hittites who disintegrate.

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