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Hatti
History; World history
Assyrian name for the people of central Anatolia who spoke a non-Indo-European language (Hattian) in the late 3rd millennium BC. This region was occupied from about 2000 BC by the ...
Hattusas
History; World history
(Modern Boghazkoy) Settlement in central Anatolia first occupied in the 3rd millennium BC. It was a major Hittite city by 1800 BC and the capital from about 1650 until its ...
Hausa
History; World history
People of northern Nigeria who formed a group of west African city states found from the mid-14th century between Songhai and Kanem-Bornu. Lacking a central government, they were ...
Hebrew language and alphabet
History; World history
Semitic language closely related to Canaanite. 'Old Hebrew' was spoken in Palestine until the 3rd century BC. The earliest examples of written Hebrew date to the 10th century BC, ...
Hebrews
History; World history
Semitic people with a shared language and religious identity whose ancestors may have lived in northwest Mesopotamia before settling in Palestine (Canaan) in the mid-2nd ...
Hecataeus
History; World history
Geographer from Miletus who wrote an account of the Mediterranean and its peoples in about 500 BC. His critical approach to the stories foreshadows the more sophisticated work of ...
Heian period
History; World history
Period of Japanese history (794-1185) that began with the removal of the imperial court from Nara to Heian (modern Kyoto). It ended with the rise of the samurai class and the ...
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