First off, this back and forth has never been about anyone recognizing anyone as an empire, my original point, and please go back and read it, was about recognizing the Hittites existed...
The Hittites as an empire received their name due to the existence of the name of some local yokel tribe by that name, found in the Old Testament. That happened precisely because the people who did that were looking for names for previously unknown people in the Bible. Period. So yes, you are dead wrong, and you don't have any proof for your foolish trope, and you're just continuing your idiotic troll behavior in a GGG topic.
Incorrigible, you are.