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3. TIME LINE
1500 - 1200 BC
1500-700: Vedic period of India.: "Rig Veda" is said to have been remembered in oral form as handed down by Brahma the creator and handed down through generations.
HITTITE
Black Sea
Gordium
Hattusa
Alaca Huyuk
HITTITE Samuha KINGDOM Ty ana Kultepe Malatya
Karatepe' Hupisna Adana Carohemish
Aleppo ?
Ivriz
Tigris
Euphrates
Mediterranean
Sea
200 A
1500-1200: Akkadian Cuneiform became common language of Near East
The principal known member of the Indo-European Language (Aryan) family is Hittite. The oldest surviving written records of Hittite, dated at about the 15th or 14th cent. B.C., are among the earliest extant remains of any Indo-European language. From c.1500 to 1200 B.C., Hittite was written both in cuneiform (a system of writing taken over from Mesopotamia) and in hieroglyphics (a form of picture writing unrelated to the hieroglyphics of Egypt). After the fall of the Hittite Empire (c.1200 B.C.) the use of cuneiform ceased, but writing in hieroglyphics continued until the 7th cent. B.C. Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Hittite are separate but closely related languages.
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