| | The Hittites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | They invaded the region, which became known as Hatti, about 1900 BC and imposed their language, culture, and rule on the earlier inhabitants who spoke an agglutinative language that was not a member of the Indo-European family. |
 | | During the 15th and 14th centuries BC their holdings extended westward to the Aegean Sea, eastwards into Armenia, south-eastwards into upper Mesopotamia, and southward into Syria as far as modern Lebanon. |
 | | Some of these city-states were conquered in the 10th century BC by the Aramaeans; the rest were made provinces of the Assyrian Empire under Sargon II about 715 BC. |
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