Multiculturalism has been a winning recipe for empire-building since at least Roman times. If it was a feature of the Hittite empire, would it really be that s

Multiculturalism has been a winning recipe for empire-building since at least Roman times. If it was a feature of the Hittite empire, would it really be that surprising? Perhaps it would, as you seem to believe that pants (of all things) were a necessary precursor, and the historical record for those only goes back to around 500BC. Sorry, I'm being coy. Your "pantsuit" dig is clearly an attempt to associate multiculturalism with femininity, and therefore weakness. Does that make you feel superior? Oh, and as I'm reading about this empire (history really isn't my forté), it seems that the claim you find "preposterous" is extremely well documented. Ho hum. The cool new discovery is that this well-known ancient multicultural society managed to preserve historical records of a language that was previously unkown. And who knows, maybe their women wore pants.