(c. 1,600 B.C.) Indo-Europeans establish the Hittite civilization centered in Hattusa in modern day Turkey, finding great success in the military use of horse chariots and giving rise to the Hittite Empire, which would eventually encompass almost all of modern day Turkey, and portions of the northern Levant and of Upper Mesopotamia.
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