Why did the Hittite civilization in Anatolia collapse so completely while civilization in the Nile River Valley continued?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Fragility of the Hittite state
1. domestic economy was relatively fragile and its homeland was poor in key resources
2. vulnerable to famine and disease
3. nomadic prowlers from the hinterlands grabbed booty or extorted protection
B. Inability to maintain conquests
1. only way to guarantee supplies of food for an increasing population and of tin to make bronze weapons
2. can weaken a state by overextending its power and disrupting its trade
3. it can be both a means of survival and an obstacle to survival because eventually it meets immovable limits
4. for the Hittites they could not break into Mesopotamia or Egypt
5. declined with the loss of territory
C. Endurance of Egypt
1. invasions in the late second millennium failed
2. basic productivity of the Egyptian agrarian system remained intact
3. Egypt entrenched rather than expanded
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