WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Second, the Hittites skillfully used the chariot, a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle. The chariots allowed Hittite soldiers to move quickly around a battlefield and fire arrows at their enemy. Using these advantages, Hittite forces captured Babylon around 1595 BC. Hittite rule did not last long, however.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Hittites of Asia Minor captured Babylon in 1595 BC with strong well-made iron weapons and the skillful use of the chariot on the battlefield.

Detailed explanation-3: -Iron tools, weapons, and chariots gave the Hittites a decisive advantage in combat, and it enabled them to conquer and hold territory.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Hittites were renowned charioteers. They developed a new chariot design that had lighter wheels, with four spokes rather than eight, and that held three rather than two warriors. It could hold three warriors because the wheel was placed in the middle of the chariot and not at the back as in Egyptian chariots.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Hittites’ super-hard iron swords could chop through the soft-as-butter bronze swords of the Egyptians and Assyrians. They were effectively ‘Bronze Age lightsabers’, making the Hittites nigh-on invincible on the battlefield.