Chapter 466: The Hittite Kingdom that Worships the Goddess
The Asia Minor Peninsula covers an area of about 500,000 square kilometers and is a land rich in natural resources.
The two mother rivers of the Mesopotamian Basin, the Tigris and the Euphrates, both originate from the Asia Minor Peninsula.
The natural resources here mainly include marble, coal, gold, silver and other resources.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the lack of copper that the Hittite Kingdom of the Asia Minor Peninsula became the first West Asian power to smelt iron weapons.
The Asia Minor Peninsula is rich in river resources and has many lakes, making two-thirds of the land here, that is, 300,000 square kilometers of land, suitable for farming.
It is precisely because of the land suitable for farming that the population of the various kingdoms in the Asia Minor Peninsula adds up to at least three or four million.
Three thousand years ago BC, the ancient Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder crossed the Caucasus region and entered the Asia Minor Peninsula.
The Euphrates River was like a signpost guiding the ancient Aryans. These nomads followed the Euphrates River all the way south and occupied a large area of land in the eastern part of the Asia Minor Peninsula and the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin.
Because the ancient Aryans took away their living space, the local ethnic groups in the eastern part of the Asia Minor Peninsula and the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian River Basin were forced to migrate to other areas.
This is exactly why the Phoenicians who worshipped the goddess Aphrodite migrated to the Phoenician region, and the Pelasgians who worshipped the goddess of the earth migrated to the Greek region.
2,300 years ago BC, the Hattians in the central part of the Asia Minor Peninsula entered the city-state era and established many city-states that worshipped the goddess of the earth as their patron saint.
2,000 years ago BC, the ancient Aryans who worshipped the sun god, the Hittites, crossed the Caucasus region and entered the Asia Minor Peninsula.
The appearance of the ancient Aryans who worshipped the sun god means that in the East European Plain, the place of origin of the ancient Aryans, the ancient Aryans who worshipped the sun god completely defeated the ancient Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder.
From this era on, those who entered the Asia Minor continent were all ancient Aryans who worshipped the sun god, and no more ancient Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder appeared.
On the Persian Plateau, the Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder [Indra Zeus] were driven to the Indian region by the Aryans who worshipped the sun god [Mithra Vishnu].
Mithra, the sun god, became the king of the gods on the Persian Plateau.
After the Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder [Indra Zeus] briefly conquered the Indian region, the Aryans who worshipped the sun god began to invade the Indian region again. The god of thunder [Indra Zeus] was driven off the throne of the king of gods, and the Aryan sun god [Mithra Vishnu] and the local god Shiva worshipped by the indigenous people became the two kings of the gods.
Together with Brahma, who was nominally revered as the creator god, they became the three-phase gods later.
1,800 years BC, the Hittites began to conquer and assimilate the Hattians with the city of Kusar as the center.
In 1640 BC, the Hittites conquered all the Hattian city-states.
During the Hittite conquest of the Hattites, the sun god worshipped by the Hittites absorbed the Hattite earth goddess and became the sun and earth goddess Alina.
In 1625 BC, the Hittite King Hattusili conquered the Kizuwatna region in the southeast of the Anatolian Peninsula and invaded the Kingdom of Yamhad in the north of Syria.
1600 BC-
Hittite King Mursili conquered the Kingdom of Yamhad and launched a war to destroy the Kingdom of Babylon.
From the timeline, it took only forty years for the Hittite Kingdom to unify the Hattite city-states.
The rapid expansion of the Hittite Kingdom buried many hidden dangers.
The Hittite king married the powerful city-state princes and married the Hittite princess to the city-state princes, which was undoubtedly the biggest hidden danger of the Hittite Kingdom.
As a country that worships goddesses and worships the sun and earth goddess Alina as the queen of gods, the princesses of the Hittite Kingdom also have the right to inherit the throne.
So the city-state prince of the Hittite Kingdom, Hantili, who married a Hittite princess and became the brother-in-law of the Hittite King Mursili, launched a coup after the war to eliminate the Babylonian Kingdom, killed Mursili and usurped the throne.
Hantili's coup plunged the Hittite Kingdom into chaos.
It took only twenty-five years for the Kizuwatna region to be conquered by the Hittite Kingdom.
It took less than a year for the Yamhad Kingdom to be conquered by the Hittite Kingdom.
So there is a high probability that these two regions will rebel, causing the Hittite Kingdom to lose one-third of its territory and population.
In the history of another world, Hantili's son-in-law Zidanta launched a coup to seize the throne, and the Kizuwatna region and the Yamhad Kingdom [northern Syria] broke away from the Hittite Kingdom and became independent again.
1599 BC.
When the time entered January, Roy did not celebrate his first New Year in this world, but took 5,000 cavalry into northern Syria-the original Tutule Kingdom.
The Tutule Kingdom was a city-state with only one Tutule City.
Because of its weak strength, Tutu City surrendered directly to the Hittite Kingdom after the Hittite Kingdom conquered the Yamhad Kingdom.
Now Roy came to Tutu City with 5,000 cavalrymen, and the governor of Tutu City surrendered directly, perfectly demonstrating how a fence-sitter can be easily influenced by the wind.
Of course, Roy would not be polite to such a fence-sitter.
Although Tutu City surrendered voluntarily, Roy still moved all the governors and nobles of Tutu City to Babylon City, leaving 500 soldiers to take over Tutu City.
After incorporating Tutu City into the territory of the Athenian Empire, Roy led his army to Emar City.
These city-states that had just been conquered by the Hittite Kingdom had no strength to resist Roy.
The governors and nobles who ruled these city-states immediately sought help as quickly as possible in order to preserve their power and wealth.
Two days later.
Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Kingdom.
royal palace.
Hantili, the usurping Hittite king, received the envoys seeking help in the throne room.
"You said the Athenians were invading the Hittite kingdom?"
After listening to the news reported by the envoy, Han Tili frowned and said.
"It's really abominable that the Athenian Emperor Loy invaded the Hittite Kingdom at such a time."
Han Tili's son-in-law Zidanta was his accomplice in launching the coup.
Seeing his father-in-law frowning, Zidanta took the initiative and said.
"Father! The first thing we need to do now is to arrest Mursili's children and relatives. We should not go to war with the Athenian Empire at this time."
“Am I going to watch the Athenians take away northern Syria?”
Hantili glared at Zidanta angrily and said.
"And I have met Emperor Loy of Athens, and I can see that he is an ambitious young man. Even if I watch him swallow up northern Syria, I can't satisfy his ambition. Next, he will invade Kizuvatna area, and then the core area of the Hittite Kingdom - the war between the Hittite Kingdom and the Athenian Empire is inevitable. This war is not necessarily a bad thing for us. We can just use the invasion of the Athenian Empire to unite the various city-states. , let them recognize me as the new king, and fight against the Athenians together under my leadership."
Zidanta said with a hesitant expression.
"Since we are going to war with the Athenians, our soldiers will have to be transferred from the city of Hattusha. The children of Mursili will probably use this opportunity to escape."
"idiot!"
Hantili couldn't help but curse.
"I have already controlled the soldiers in Mursili. What will happen if the princes and princesses escape from Hattusa City?"