The Hittites may have been among the first irons to use as a precious metal in such things as thrones and ceremonial daggers work. There is no evidence that they know how to produce steel cheaply enough, and make it hard enough to use as weapons of war.
The most important contribution is the Hittites modern history. Hittite diplomatic tablets rather long preamble about negotiations that had gone before, and are part of the history of relations between Hatti and other nations.
Anatolia functioned as a bridge between the Greek world in the West with the great empires of the East. When migrating groups passed over this bridge, some of their people often remained and settled, as happened when the Hittites entered Anatolia. The Phrygians arrived in a similar manner, either in conjunction with or after the fall of the Hittite Empire. The newcomers easy to fit an existing cultural patterns, and the geography of the country led to the growth of a variety of small, local powers and petty chiefs.
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