Hittite origins of Greek culture?

by Ok_Status7790

If the Hittite language is the oldest indo-european language, and the migration going west from the home of Aryans, did Hittite culture proceed and create that of later Europeans like the Greeks?

Bentresh

Archaeologists and linguists generally agree that Greek-speakers were already present in the Aegean by the time the Hittite kingdom coalesced in the 17th century BCE, and the Hittites and (Mycenaean) Greeks were contemporaries. There was interaction and cultural exchange between Hittite Anatolia and Mycenaean Greece, but one cannot say that Hittite culture "created" Greek culture.

I've touched on this in a couple of past posts.

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