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Humanities
The Hittites
| tributary | a person that owes payment to another regulary |
| insuperable | impossible to overcome |
| booty | valuable stolen goods |
| ambassador | a person sent by one country as its official representitive to a foreign country |
| emblem | a symbol of a nation or organization |
| expel | to force someone or something out |
| mystify | to utterly bewilder or perplex |
| commemorate | to recall and show respect for in a ceremony |
| treaty | a formal agreement between countries |
| archaeologist | someone who studies human history though artifacts and other physical remains |
| procure | to obtain with care or effort |
| diplomatic | used in the activity of international relations |
| vassal | a person or country that is subordinate and owes allegiance to another |
| refuge | a place of shelter |
| incur | to bring or take upon oneself |
| relief | the method of carving, molding, or stamping where the design stands out from the surface |
| hattusas | hittite cities |
| carchemish | chief city of the later hittite empire |
| hittites | children of heth ; occupants of the land of canaan on abrahams arrival |
| teutonic empire | european empire that shared the same emblem as the ancient hittites |
| taurus mountains | mauntains where hittites were located |
| khatti | ancient name for the hittites |
| assurbanipal | king of assyria |
| ramses II | king of egypt |
| khonsu | egyptian god famous for expelling evil spirits |
| what quote did jacob say? | there they buried Abraham and sarah, his wife... |
| what did the quote say about the treaty between egypt and the hittite empire? | Ramses the great king, king of egypt, has made himself in a treaty... |