Cristo: The royal annals give the impression that the hittite army was always involved in fighting. He says they did need to use their army to protect their lands, but also to conduct military campaigns which seem to have been mostly economically motivated. Droughts and famines and wars considerably depleted the populations in hati. Ande there was also the fact that a lot of people didn't want to be hittite subjects,. or to be conscripted into the army, and they escaped.

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