Hittite weapons of war

Name: Hittite weapons of war

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Athens Adventure Mediator
Alexandria Adventure Mediator

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I have a request for you from a Scholar researching the Hittite kingdom. Like the chariots of Sumeria, he says that the Hittites also had something like chariots. He would like you to investigate that. The Scholar at Istanbul know something about that

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	Difference in chariots
	Istanbul - Scholar
Records reveal that the chariots made by the Hittites are very different from those of the Sumerians. The Sumerians' had four wheels and were pulled by a donkey. But the Hittites' ones had only two wheels, and were pulled by horses.

	Hittites focus on bows
	Istanbul - Scholar
Even though they are both chariots, why are they so different? I wonder if maybe it had a difficult use in the first place... In Sumer, soldiers holding spears rode chariots, and waved the spears around, but the Hittites fired arrows.

	Plans of both sides
	Istanbul - Scholar
In an age before firearms, the Sumerian chariot was developed as a Melee battle weapon. The Hittitie chariot was developed as a long ranged weapon. What circumstances led to two such different weapons being created, then?

	Are there records in Anatolia?
	Istanbul - Scholar
Just as that wall relating to the Sumerian weapon was found in Ur, I'm hoping a record of the Hittite weapon is also out there somewhere... Perhaps if you search the ruins around the highlands of Anatoia, the Hittite lands, you might find a similar record.

	Records of a weapon slumber in the highlands
	Anatolian Highlands - Ruins Interior
Hittite is said to have been a powerful, militaristic country that made weapons of iron. There is a chance that records of the weapons they used remain in the ruins in the highlands of Anatolia.