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In 1650 B.C., they were able to gain control of most of Mesopotamia largely because of their advanced warfare, including horse-drawn chariots. Under their rule, life in the Babylonian empire did not flourish artistically or culturally as it did under others’ rule.  
 
In 1650 B.C., they were able to gain control of most of Mesopotamia largely because of their advanced warfare, including horse-drawn chariots. Under their rule, life in the Babylonian empire did not flourish artistically or culturally as it did under others’ rule.  
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Biblical references to the Hittites were once used by skeptics to question the historical validity of the Bible, since at that time there was no other known reference to them.  This ended in 1906 when a British archaeologist unearthed the long-buried capitol of the Hittite Empire, along with many stone tablets in Hittite script.
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Biblical references to the Hittites were once used by skeptics to question the historical validity of the Bible, since at that time there was no other known reference to them.  This ended in 1906 when the German archaeologist Hugo Winckler unearthed the long-buried capitol of the Hittite Empire, along with many stone tablets in Hittite script.
    
==Biblical references to the Hittites==
 
==Biblical references to the Hittites==
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