Were the hittites first indo -European people to make use of iron?

The Hittites were not the first Indo-European people to make use of iron. The earliest evidence of ironworking in the Near East dates back to the 4th millennium BC in Anatolia, where the Hittites lived. However, the first Indo-European people to make use of iron were the Mitanni people, who lived in northern Syria and southeastern Anatolia.

When did Pizarros voyage start?

How might the phrase God glory and gold summarise Europeans motives for explorations?

The complicated succession of Henry I of England and the birth of the Plantagenet dynasty
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenet In some blog posts we have talked about the crucial moment that the conquest of England by the Normans meant for the history of the British country (see the post dedicated to the year 1066). After the settlement of the Normans on the English throne there was
Henry VII and the fulfillment of the prophecy about the return of King Arthur
Who has not enjoyed the stories of the mythical King Arthur and his noble knights? The sword Excalibur in the stone that only the king of England could remove, the magic of Merlin, the Round Table of the castle of Camelot where Arthur and his knights narrated their exploits saving maidens or fightin
Purity law, wheat beer monopoly, revolution. How beer shaped Bavaria
Bavaria is known for a lot in the world. Lederhosen, yodelling, BMW … But the beer certainly has a particularly strong influence on the image of Bavaria in the world. And there is a lot involved. The Bavarian Purity Law, the Oktoberfest, the Munich Hofbräuhaus, the beer gardens and so on and so fort
Agobard and the myth of UFOs.
Fighting against popular terrors, well anchored in the collective imagination, is almost in the realm of the impossible. They are all the more harmful as the risk of civil disorder, or even murder, within a rural population remains a well-founded concern. Yet this is what the Bishop of Lyon, Monsign