Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. Near Eastern (Early Western World)
7. Anatolian (culture or style)

Narrower term/s

• Old Hittite Kingdom
• Hittite Empire
• Neo-Hittite
• Middle Hittite Kingdom

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the period from about 1650 BCE when Hittite rulers first came to prominence in central Anatolia until around 700 BCE when the Assyrians destroyed the remaining Hittite city-states in southeast Anatolia and north Syria.