The Hittites played an important role in the history of the Middle East because they
A) defeated the Egyptians, thus ending Egypt's New Kingdom.
B) were conquered by the Assyrians, paving the way for the Assyrian Empire.
C) invented the alphabet.
D) drove the Sea Peoples back into the sea.
E) transmitted Mesopotamian culture to the west, especially to the Mycenaean Greeks.
E
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